Reception Class 2026 - 2027

Welcome to our Reception/EYFS class page. Here you will find useful information about life in Reception, including what the children will be learning, key areas of the EYFS curriculum and helpful information to support your child throughout the year.

Mrs King is the class teacher

Miss Speed is the class teaching assistant

Our experienced and caring EYFS team is dedicated to making sure every child feels happy, safe and confident as they begin their journey at Christleton Primary School.

We work closely together to create a warm, nurturing and stimulating environment where children can learn through play, exploration and carefully planned activities. We take time to get to know each child as an individual, helping them to develop independence, build positive relationships and grow in confidence.

Our wonderful carpet area!

We have lots of resources to help us build in reception!

Everything is labelled for us to access ourselves.

We are lucky to have two outdoor areas in reception. We have a smaller outdoor area, alongside our larger area. We have so much space to explore and follow our own interests!

The children get to practise gliding on the balance bikes ready for riding with pedals! Our balance bike club has been an amazing success!

Our reading area is always changing with books that follow our unique interests and props to act out the stories. We love reading in reception!

We always have access to our home area!

We have great fun finding mini-beasts and carefully observing them.

The school works closely with all our families and there are lots of opportunities for our family to visit us at school. This might be to talk about their job or to be our secret reader!

Mud faces in our forest school area. We like getting messy and exploring our amazing school grounds!

We love the outdoors in reception! We love growing vegetables, fruit and plants in our garden and use the herbs in our mud kitchen.

Making lemonade in our role play. The activities change to follow our unique interests.

We go on many school trips, with Ness Gardens being one of our favourites!

We learn how to understand and manage our feelings.

There is lots of opportunities to observe the seasons.

We have so many loose parts to build and create with.

In Reception, children learn through a rich and engaging curriculum that is carefully designed to build strong foundations for future learning. Our provision reflects the seven areas of learning within the Early Years Foundation Stage and provides a balance of adult-led teaching, purposeful play and opportunities for children to explore, investigate and develop their independence.

We place great importance on following children’s interests and using these as a starting point to make learning meaningful, enjoyable and relevant. Staff carefully observe what captures the children’s curiosity and use this alongside planned curriculum content to create exciting learning experiences that develop knowledge, skills and understanding.

Throughout the year, children develop their communication and language, early reading and writing, mathematical understanding, physical skills, creativity, confidence and ability to build positive relationships. Learning takes place both indoors and outdoors, with children encouraged to ask questions, solve problems, make choices and become increasingly confident and independent learners.

Context for Learning

This term our topic is 'Marvellous Me' where we will be getting to know each other and our families! We will learn what makes us unique and how to follow the rules and expectations of the setting. We will settle into our new classroom, meet new friends, explore the environment with growing independence and begin our phonics lessons. In reception we understand how powerful play is to help us to learn! We follow the children's interests, so you never know what unique interests will help us to learn this term!