Welcome to Team Rosen!

(Reception)

In Team Rosen, we are dedicated to providing a stimulating, fun and engaging environment where every child can flourish and experience awe and wonder in their learning journey. Our approach embraces captivating books and topic themes intertwined with the children's own interests, creating a rich tapestry of exploration that fosters confidence, independence and critical thinking skills.

We cultivate a warm and nurturing atmosphere and we recognise how important parents and carers are in their children’s education. We love to celebrate the learning that takes place both at home and at school.

Join us as we inspire young minds in a vibrant community of lifelong learners, where every day is filled with excitement and discovery!

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Our Unit

At our school, we provide a nurturing environment for our reception children, aged 4 to 5 years. Our free flow ‘discovery time’ offers a vibrant opportunity for children to explore, engage and learn from one another. With the guidance of our experienced early years staff, activities are tailored through thoughtful questioning, ensuring that each child experiences a sense of achievement personalised to their needs.

Alongside this enriching self-directed exploration, we also offer engaging short adult-led inputs that provide age-appropriate knowledge and foster curiosity. These sessions enhance their learning journey and complement the creativity nurtured during discovery time. We are dedicated to inspiring a love for learning that lays the groundwork for a bright future. Join us in this exciting educational adventure!

Our Curriculum

At Kennett Primary School, we follow the Birth to Five Matters and The Development Matters framework within Tapestry to flag areas of learning pertaining to different domains. Ultimately, all our teaching leads to the statutory early learning goals which help plan our rich curriculum and the children’s next steps.

During a child’s time in our foundation stage unit, we build a profile of their learning using the interactive learning journey Tapestry.

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Applying for a Place

If you would like to apply for a school place for your child to join our reception class, please see our admissions information for details about how to apply.

Phonics

At Kennett Primary School, we follow the approved DfE programme of Little Wandle Letters and Sounds for our phonics scheme. In reception during the autumn term, we learn our phase two sounds and develop our blending skills. In the spring term, we learn our phase three sounds before moving onto our phase four sounds in the summer term.

For more information and helpful guidance on our scheme, please visit:

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

Writing

In the Autumn term of reception, our children develop their fine motor control and letter formation skills. We will be encouraging them to use their increasing phonics knowledge and penmanship to write labels and lists. By the spring term, we will be looking to write simple sentences using capital letters, finger spaces between words and full stops. When the children leave our unit at the end of the summer term, we will have learnt how to write more detailed sentences including the use of some describing words and the conjunction ‘and’. The children will have experienced writing a whole variety of genre including: letters, non-fiction sentences, fictional sentences, questions and poetry.

Maths

At Kennett Primary School, we follow the White Rose maths mastery scheme. In the autumn term we will be concentrating on number knowledge to five. We will be matching, sorting and comparing different amounts before learning to represent and compare quantities to five. In the spring term, children will work on their number knowledge to ten. As well as matching, sorting and comparing, we will also learn our number bonds to ten. During the summer term, children will continue to practise and consolidate their number knowledge and explore numbers from ten to 20 and beyond!

Throughout the year, children will also build confidence when comparing size, mass, capacity and patterns.

For more information about our mastery approach to maths teaching, please click on the link below:

Mastery Booklet for Parents

Home Learning

In reception, as soon as the children are ready, they will be given a reading book and home reading record. Reading at home is absolutely vital to a child's progression. We value the support parents and carers provide by listening to their children read at home for ten minutes each night.

Alongside regular reading, children will be given a maths home learning goal each half term. This goal matches age-appropriate expectations and will form a core aspect of their maths learning.

For more information on the maths home learning goals, please see the below documentation:

Key Instant Recall Facts Information Sheet

Useful Websites

Below are some useful website which you could use to further support your child’s learning at home.