Reception Events

Mon 15 Dec 2025 Reception - Height & Weight Checks
Wed 17 Dec 2025 Reception - Christmas Crafts with Parents

Reception

Welcome to our Reception Class Family.

Here you can keep up to date with the information regarding Reception. 

Start Time 

Location: Reception Gate

RW & RR 8:18

End Time

Location: Reception Gate

RW & RR Monday to Thursday 3.05pm / Friday 1pm

PE

RW & RR Wednesday & Thursday

Contact Information

Your Class Teachers are Miss Wilson (RW) and
Miss Rapson (RR) 

You can contact us by email on reception@cravenwoodprimary.org.uk

Coats

Please make sure your child brings a coat to school everyday and ensure they have their names in them. 

Our topic this term is: 'Me and My World'.

We will be learning about the people who are in our families and what it is that makes each of us so special!

PSED

  • See themselves as a valuable individual.
  • Manage own needs.
  • Manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs, including dressing, toileting and understanding the importance of healthy food choices.

CL

  • Engage in story times.
  • Learn new vocabulary.
  • Understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important.
  • Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences.
  • Engage in non-fiction books.
  • Use new vocabulary throughout the day.

PD

  • Know and talk about the different factors that support their overall health and well-being.
  • Manage the school day successfully.
  • Playing start and stop games in P.E.

Maths

  • Match and sort; find and match objects that are the same, sort objects according to colour, shape or size.
  • Compare amounts; Use the vocabulary fewer, the same and more to compare groups of objects.
  • Compare size, mass and capacity; compare and order objects according to their size, use mathematical language to describe size. 
  • Explore pattern; copy, continue and create simple AB repeating patterns.

Literacy

  • Write their first name without a reference.
  • Answer 'what' questions related to a story.
  • Spell words by identifying the sounds and then writing the sound with the letter/s.
  • Write the correct initial sound for words.
  • Read individual letters by saying the sounds for them.

Understanding the World

  • Talk about members of their own immediate family and community.
  • Name and describe people who are familiar to them.
  • Talk about the lives of people around them and their roles in society.

Expressive Art and Design

  • Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings.
  • Develop storylines in pretend play.
  • Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.