Reception - Cherry

 

Miss Debi and Ms Courtney welcome you to Cherry Class! ‘In the moment’ learning is an approach which can be found across Broomhill Infants, and it is no different in Cherry class. We prioritise the children’s interests and use them to direct our learning topics. One week it might be minibeasts and how they help the world, the next it might be volcanoes and their amazing eruptions!.

Miss Courtney is a creative and innovative member of our team and she loves to share her passions for the arts with the children in Cherry class. She can often be found building a life size junk modelling dinosaur, or making unique clay pots and ornaments with the children. Miss Debi loves to be outside responding to the children’s interests in the moments. She knows lots of interesting facts and has a dramatic flair that is hard to be rivalled! Both members of staff just love to play and spend time with the children. Being in reception is lots of fun!

Our learning environment in Apple class includes an indoor classroom as well as a wider outdoor classroom, where children are enabled to have free-flow opportunities to explore throughout the day.  These include a range of opportunities across the seven areas of learning in the EYFS- communication and language, physical development, personal social and emotional development, literacy, maths, understanding the world, and expressive arts and design.  

In reception, our children are learning to play and playing to learn. Teachers follow children’s interests to support their development and learning targets.  Our aim goes beyond simply teaching the curriculum, we endeavour to create a lifelong love of learning! 

Children in reception are encouraged to develop independence through a secure and nurturing environment.   We encourage risk taking, which allows children to overcome physical challenges while building confidence, problem solving, and resilience.

In keeping with our ethos- “Nature, Nurture, Knowledge”, we are outdoors in all weathers.  We also acknowledge that learning can get messy! As such, we ask that all children please keep a labelled spare set of clothing at school at all times.

 

Some important information to know:

• Children should bring bottled water and their book bag daily.
• Reading/phonics books will be changed throughout the week, please ensure your child has these daily.
• Children can access online learning using BugClub for reading and DoodleMath for mathematics, utilising personal logins provided by the class teacher.
• Please label everything that your child brings in (hats, bookbags, coats, jumpers, etc.).

a typical day in reception at broomhill infant school.pdf