Weekly Updates

- 10th Jan 2025

Reception

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Welcome

Reception

Welcome to the most magical place in school! Reception is the home of the fantastic Cambridge class and Carle class. We don’t just learn here, we investigate, explore, create and discover.

Each half term, our learning is based around an exciting topic:

Foundation Stage 2 Long Term Overview 2024 2025

These topics enable us to enhance and enrich the children’s learning with lots of wow moments, e.g. panto trips, visits from police officers, nurses and people who help us, theme days and more!

The Early Years Foundation Stage is organised into 7 areas of learning.

The Early Years Statutory Framework states that the Prime areas are important for ‘igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, forming relationships and thriving’. They provide the foundations for all future learning. Click on the links below to see how each area is developed through our half termly topics:

The Prime Areas

Communication and Language

Physical Development

Personal Social and Emotional

The Specific Areas

In addition to the prime areas a 4 specific areas with support and strengthen learning in the prime areas:

Literacy

At Buckingham Primary School, we follow the Time For Phonics, a Department of Education validated multisensory and synthetic phonics programme (please make Time For Phonics above a hyperlink to here Time for Phonics | DfE validated phonics scheme)

Maths

Understanding of the World

Expressive Art and Design

Music