Reception

Reception takes children who are rising 5 and is a good transition between the explicit teaching environment of the nursery and the structured environment of the lower school. The reception class may sometimes have a combination of reception and year 1 children and therefore the curriculum can cover both the Early Learning Goals (Foundation Stage Curriculum) and National Curriculum targets. In the mornings the children are taught literacy, maths and speaking and listening and have daily structured play sessions in the afternoons as well as science, humanities and art.

The children who transfer from our nursery into reception do so the term they turn five.