Reception 2020 Starter Information
To our Reception class of 2020
Hello and welcome to our new Reception children and parents who will be joining Billingborough Primary School in September.
We are super excited about meeting your little people and welcoming them to our school. This is the beginning of a new adventure that we cannot wait to share with you all. Whether you are a new family to Billingborough or a familiar face we are looking forward to welcoming you as your child embarks on the next step in their educational journey.
We appreciate that starting school is such an important and special time for you and your child, we would like to do everything we can to prepare and support you between now and your child starting in September. We will keep this page on our website up to date with as much information as possible for you and we will upload Reception starter documents. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.
We look forward to welcoming you to our school community.
The Early Years Team
We follow the DfE-listed, Monster Phonics scheme for children in Reception and Key Stage 1 and as an intervention in Key Stages 1 and 2. The resources are mapped against the Letters and Sounds phases 1-6 and the KS1 Spelling Curriculum. Click on the Monster Phonics icon to explore www.monsterphonics.com.
The colour-coded grapheme system is unique to Monster Phonics; each coloured grapheme is paired with a monster character that makes the same sound to give audio-visual prompts that help children ‘see’ each sound within a word and pronounce it correctly. Our monsters are really sound cues to help children remember how to read and pronounce graphemes. Click on the Black Cat icon to explore our Billingborough Phonics curriculum page.
Starting school is an exciting time for young children and their parents. It can be a daunting time, too. But with a little preparation and encouragement, most children will settle in easily at school. PACEY childcare professionals have a great deal of experience in helping children to cope with times of transition. Here are some top tips, put together by some of our most experienced members, to help you prepare your child for starting school.
Before letters, numbers or pictures come simple marks. Mark-making is a great start to writing and art. Marks are how children learn to express themselves and portray the world around them. So, get mark-making and have some fun along the way. Use hands, fingers and feet. Squishing dough and swirling colours together – there are lots of ways to experiment with marks. Encouraging your child to experiment with confidence will mean they are well on their way to being prepared for when those marks start to form into letters and numbers when they start school.
Every day your child is facing challenges involving problem-solving, thinking and reflection skills that make him or her a natural mathematician. Help your child to prepare for learning maths at school with these simple games, rhymes and everyday activities. Maths teaching in primary schools has undergone a revolution in recent years – find fun ways of exploring maths at home, and then see how the fun continues as your child starts school
