Welcome to Reception Class!

Love each other, as God loves us. John 15:12

Welcome to our Reception Class page, where we will keep you up to date with the children's learning and share lots of important information and lovely photographs with you. We aim to provide a wonderful learning environment for the children in a Foundation Stage that is full of care, fun and excitement. 

Autumn Term 2025

A huge welcome to all our new reception children and their families to Frodsham CE Primary School.

Your child's development and happiness is at the heart of everything we do here at Frodsham CE, and we feel that children learn best whilst having fun, feeling safe and happy.  Our aim is to feed your child's curiosity and to inspire them to do their very best.  We use concrete, meaningful and practical learning opportunities that support the children to become independent problem solvers, who are continuously eager to expand their knowledge and skills and have a conscientious attitude to their own learning.  

What is it like in our reception class?

Our children say...

"We love having fun and school is such an exciting place to be!  We enjoy learning outside, exploring our wonderful woodlands during forest school, investigating our school pond and playing in our school grounds. We love cooking in the mud kitchen, playing in our water tray and in the huge sandpit; developing our physical skills by climbing on our trim trail, playing with the PE equipment or building up our resilience by trying things that are tricky!  We also love the large construction area outside, using our imagination to build exciting models so we can create our own stories. Dressing up and performing on the outside stage with instruments and costumes is great fun!" 

"Inside the classroom, we enjoy our large creative and mark making areas, dancing to music whilst squeezing playdoh during dough disco time, building in the construction area and making up stories in the small world area.  We develop our fine motor control and build up our finger strength in the Funky fingers area.  We enjoy challenging ourselves in the phonics area and playing in the mathematics area with exciting activities and resources. We like being quiet in our snuggly reading corner, reading books with our friends and also in our reflection area. We also love listening to stories on the carpet and joining in with different voices, singing songs together and playing with all our friends.  We learn to become more independent each day, choosing our own learning activities and develop our abilities to care for one another showing kindness."

"Our topics in Reception frequently change and are often chosen by us - we have great ideas! Since starting school we have enjoyed getting to know our Year 6 Big Buddies and love spending time with them; playing games in the playground, reading books together.  There are lots of lovely children in our class and we've all made lots of new friends! We work hard in our lessons and love having fun at our fantastic school."

At Frodsham CE we have high expectations for our children. We provide them with a caring, safe and happy classroom environment full of fun and excitement, which will enable them to reach their full potential, develop independence, self discipline and have a love for learning.

Happy children make successful learners! 

A snapshot of some of our adventures so far...

Where will our adventures take us next? 

Meet the Early Years team:

Mrs Evans – EYFS Lead and Class Teacher

Miss Parfett - Higher Level Teaching Assistant 

Ms Osborne - Teaching Assistant

Ms Hunt-Chambers (Mrs J) - Teaching Assistant

Mrs Ryder (Mrs M) - Teaching Assistant

Please tell us if you have any worries or concerns. We are always available for a chat after school or get in touch via email admin@frodshamce.cheshire.sch.uk to arrange an appointment in school or on the phone. 

Don't Forget...

Waterbottles and Wellies

Please make sure that your child brings a named water bottle into school every morning, filled with fresh water only. We will help your child to refill their bottle during the day if needed.  Also, please provide your child with a pair of wellies to keep in school for the year.  We use the outside classroom and the forest area often, and it does tend to get very muddy in there! Don't forget to name all your child's belongings, uniform and shoes. 

Snack

Please provide your child with fresh or dried fruit or vegetables for their mid morning snack.  We are a healthy school, so only fruit and vetetables are allowed. Please ensure it is labelled with their name.  Children can pop their snack into the snack basket when they arrive into school.  

PE

Physical Education lessons are on a Tuesday morning for Reception.  We will help the children to become confident at getting changed into their PE kits and putting it on independently.  We will be sending PE kits home every half term holiday for a wash and this is also a good chance to check that your child's pumps still fit them.   

EYFS Curriculum 

The Prime Areas

The prime areas begin to develop quickly in response to relationships and experiences and run through and support learning in other areas. They are fundamental in the EYFS and are:

• Communication and Language
• Personal, Social and Emotional development
• Physical Development

The Specific Areas

These areas include essential skills and knowledge. They grow out of the prime areas and provide important contexts for learning. They are:

• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Arts and Design 

Characteristics of Effective Learning

All children engage with other people and their environment in different ways and we recognise that children have individual needs, interests and develop at different rates. In our planning and teaching, we reflect on our knowledge of each individual and encompass the characteristics of effective teaching and learning:

• Playing and Exploring – children are given opportunities to investigate, experience new things and are encouraged to ‘have a go’.
• Active Learning – we encourage children to persevere if they encounter difficulties and to enjoy their achievements.
• Creating and Thinking Critically – we support children to have and develop their own ideas, encouraging them to make links and develop their own strategies for doing things.

These characteristics underpin learning and development across all areas and support children to remain effective and motivated learners.

Phonics - Read, Write Inc

At Frodsham CE, we continuously encourage children to read for pleasure to enable them to become confident readers. We follow a structured phonics programme called ‘Read, Write Inc’ which supports and develops reading and writing skills.