Welcome to Butterflies Reception Class at St Mary's Primary School
The class teacher is Miss Norris, who is supported by the Teaching Assistant, Mrs Skipp. On a Thursday morning, the class is covered by Mrs Gallimore.
We have our own Early Years building called 'The Woodlands' which houses the Reception class and the Nursery. Both classrooms have wonderful indoor and outdoor learning spaces, as well as access to our beautiful school grounds.
We believe that the teacher - parent/carer relationship is essential, and we aim to make our classroom learning environment a loving, fun, safe and inspiring place to be. We run events throughout the school year where parents/carers are invited into class to join in with all the fun activities we do!
Supporting Learning at Home: learning to read is an important part of the Reception year, and your child's learning journey. We send reading books, sound books and tricky word books home so that you are able to support what your child is learning about in school.
We also set 'learning steps' (Maths non-negotiables), which support your child's mathematical development. We work on these every week with your child, 1:1 during their independent learning time. We set a new learning step once we are sure they are secure with the step they have been working on. We communicate these so that they can be practised at home too!
Further information...
- We have a Star of the Week every week - a child is chosen to wear the star of the week badge, be the line leader and do special jobs during the week! The other children all have a chance to say a positive affirmation about the star, which is lovely to hear.
- 'Be the best you can be' - we hold a whole school assembly every week to celebrate all kinds of achievements. If your child has gained a medal or certificate for an out of school activity or achievement please send them into school with it and they can show it in the 'be the best you can be' assembly.
- Buddies - children have a Year 6 buddy who looks after them for the duration of the Reception year. Buddies will also read with the reception children once a week - an activity everyone enjoys!
- Teams - each child joins team or house (Fire, Earth, Air, Water). We hold different events throughout the school year in our teams and win prizes, trophies and special rewards. Children gain monster points via Class Dojo and this is how they gain their house points.
We have class rules that we decide on as a class at the start of the year. We call these our class promises.
Butterflies promise to..
- Use listening ears
- Show super sitting
- Keep words in
- Looking eyes
- Use kind words
- Wonderful walking