Reception 2025 - 2026
Mrs Bradley
Reception Autumn term 1
Welcome to Highfields! We hope you had a lovely summer and can’t wait to hear about all of your adventures. We are all looking forward to getting to know you and helping you settle into school life here!
Over the first few weeks, we will be gradually introducing routines and helping you to find your way around the classroom and school.
All you need to bring to school each day is a coat (in case it rains), a water bottle, a lunchbox (if you are not having a free school lunch) and your book bag which will be stored in your tray as our cloakroom is quite small. At breaktime, we have free fruit but you are welcome to bring in a healthy snack. Free milk is also provided in the afternoon.
This half term, our PE lessons will be on a Friday, starting the first week. Each Friday, please come into school in your PE kit; a red T-shirt and either black shorts or black leggings/ jogging bottoms, a red hoodie/jumper and trainers. Please make sure that all clothes are labelled so that we can reunite any items with their owners quickly. For health and safety reasons, earrings must be removed or covered during PE lessons.
We love using our outdoor area and exploring the school grounds in Reception. With this in mind, please could you bring in a spare pair of named wellies which will stay in school for our outdoor learning sessions?
During our Reception year, each child will have a Year 6 buddy who will read and share stories with them each week during Buddy Time. They will write a letter and meet up during the first week! We are very passionate about reading at Highfields and would encourage you to share books at home as much as possible. Little and often is best! Listening to stories and talking about them will develop your love for books and is also a good excuse to snuggle up together at the end of a busy day!
We hope this is helpful and look forward to working with you all. We will be holding a 'Meet the Teacher' session on Tuesday 9th September at 3.30pm when you will be able to come and see our classroom and we can update you with our new routines and expectations for the year.
Kind regards,
Mrs Bradley (class teacher) and Mrs Gardner (my fantastic teaching assistant)
If you have any questions, no matter what they are, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will do my best to help in any way we can.
Key Dates:
1st September – INSET day
2nd September – First day in Reception
9th September – “Meet the teacher” session – 3.30pm in Reception classroom
24th October – Last day of half-term
3rd November – First day back after half-term