Reception
Academic Year 2026-2027
Cygnets, Ducklings and Goslings are hatching new ideas and exploring and beginning to learn about the world around them.
We dive into new learning experiences, always making a splash, do our best to get along swimmingly and are discovering how to spread our learning wings and fly.
Please feel free to contact us on the following email addresses:
Reception lead and Goslings class teacher - lholloway@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk
Cygnets class teacher - clintern@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk
Ducklings class teacher - zmartens@whiterockprimaryschool.co.uk
Dates for your diary
Monday 5th October – Harvest Festival: please bring donations to school in the morning of the 5th October
Wednesday 7 October - Reception Parents Phonics Workshop @ 2.20pm
Tuesday 13th & Wednesday 14th October - Individual & sibling photos
Thursday 22 October - WRAPS Halloween Disco (details to follow)
Friday 23rd October - Last Day of Half Term-
OCTOBER HALF TERM 26th October - 30th October
Autumn Term 2
Monday 2 November - Non Pupil Day
Tuesday 3 November - First Day back
09/11/2026 - 13/11/2026 from 09:30 to 11:00 - Read with Me parent sessions
Tuesday 10 & Thursday 12th November - Virtual Parents Evening 3.50pm-6pm
Monday 16 - Friday 20 November - Anti Bullying week
Nativity performances 15th December-
9.30am – Goslings,
10.30am - Cygnets
1.30pm – Ducklings.
Week commencing 12th October 2026
We have had another great week in Reception, we have really enjoyed listening to the story Supertato in drawing club. We have had a go at drawing good and bad characters from the story then made our own Supertatoes to take home. In maths, we have continued our work on patterns and extending patterns by their colour or size.
Week commencing 5th October 2026
We have had a great week in Reception and explored signs of Autumn. We have collected leaves from the woodlands and made leaf people. We have had fun creating with junk modelling and exploring ways of attaching pieces together. We have been working on recognising graphemes and blending CVC words.
Week commencing 28th September 2026
We have had a fantastic third week of school and discovered some superheroes have crash landed their spacecraft into our woodlands! We have been working together in groups to explore all the different types of maths learning we can do inside and outside the classroom. We have been supported by our adults to use vocabulary like; tall, short, long, share, fair, more, less, altogether. We have explored the creative area and made our own robot friends based on the story "I'm going to make a friend".
Week commencing 21st September 2026
We have had a fantastic second week of school and spent a lot more time in the woodlands! We have been working hard to get changed into our school splash suits and working on turn taking. We have talked with our talk partners about our families and looked at how families are all different. we started phonics sessions and are working hard to form the graphemes. We are looking forward to another fun packed week next week.
Week commencing 14th September 2026
We have had a fantastic first full week of school and explored our new classrooms and outside areas, including the woodlands! We have been playing lots of circle games to help us remember our friends names and work on turn taking. We have remembered our carpet spaces and worked on using our brave voices to say good morning and good afternoon in the register. We are looking forward to another fun packed week next week.
