Class Teacher - Mrs Guney
Welcome to our Reception class
Welcome to Reception at Dove Bank Primary School.
In Reception, we encourage every child to embrace our core values. To aspire to achieve our very best, show resilience when facing challenges, and treat everyone with kindness and respect. Through engaging learning experiences, teamwork and a positive mindset, we aim to help every pupil develop confidence, independence and a love of learning.
Our reception curriculum promotes effective learning and is designed around the needs of our children. We aim to immerse our pupils in a language-rich environment that is home to plenty of oracy opportunities. We understand the importance of play and have a range of resources to allow pupils to explore, think critically and problem solve. Many of our activities are play-based; however, there is also a need for some direct teacher-led activities to ensure all children gain essential knowledge and skills.
Areas of learning
There are seven areas of learning and development within the early years, which are extremely important to ensure our children get the best possible start at school. These seven areas are made up of three prime areas and four specific areas.
The prime areas of learning and development include communication and language, personal, social and emotional development and physical development. These are vital to ensure our children feel safe, form a range of positive relationships, develop a love of learning through curiosity and as a result are then ready to take on the challenges of the wider curriculum.
The specific areas of learning and development include; literacy, mathematics, understanding the world and expressive arts and design. These areas help to further strengthen the prime areas.
The characteristics of effective teaching and learning describe the behaviours children use in order to learn. The three behaviours are:
1. Playing and Exploring – Having high levels of engagement and being willing to ‘have a go’.
2. Active Learning – Being motivated and demonstrating resilience.
3. Creating and Thinking Critically – Developing own ideas, strategies and making connections.
Effective learning must be meaningful to our children so that they can use what they have learned and apply it to a range of situations. This will allow for our children to make good progress across all seven areas of learning and development.
We use Little Wandle Phonics scheme to ensure a consistent and effective approach to teaching phonics.
You can find more information about our curriculum and links, at the bottom of this page.
Useful things to know
PE
Your child will need to come in their PE kit on a Tuesday this Autumn term.
Contact
Mrs Guney is the class teacher in Reception class this year. Her email address is d.guney@dovebank.staffs.sch.uk should you wish to contact her.
Links to support my learning at home
Phonics' games (Little Wandle)
Maths' games
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/3-5-years/counting
https://www.learningtrajectories.org/pages/games
Useful links to support your child with reading
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-age-4-5-reception/
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/3-5-years/letters-and-sounds