Batley Parish CE Primary Academy

In  the Reception class we learn through play and exploration both indoors and outdoors.  Our classroom is always an exciting place to learn and it changes regularly to reflect our needs and interests. We are busy, independent and active learners who are able to make our own choices, think critically and be imaginative.  We have exciting topics that we learn about but we also follow our own interests and ideas.  Our classroom is a busy, lively and exciting place to learn with our friends and our teachers. We follow the golden rules which include persevering and trying our best, treating others and the environment with respect, having a go, taking care of our fantastic resources and being kind to others. 

Our learning together sessions are loved by the children, parents and teacher alike! Here is what the children had to say about them;

Our classroom is a well organised and exciting place to learn. There are seperate areas of provision which the children are able to access independently. Each area of provision is well planned and resourced and is designed to enable children to learn a range of different skills and knowledge.  These areas include; a self serving snack area, malleable/dough area, small construction, writing, maths, reading and phonics, ICT, role-play, design and making, collage, art, finger gym and a music area. Each half term these areas of provison are enhanced to reflect our topic and to respond to your child's interests or needs. You can see below how our classroom changes to reflect different topics.

We also have a fantastic outdoor classroom and an outdoor area which has been recently improved. The outdoor area is a space that reflects the indoors and children are able to access the curriculum on a wider scale. It too is a well planned space where we plan activities and we enhance areas of provision to reflect the needs and interests of the children. 

We now have a fantastic new mud kitchen, a large outdoor sand pit and a wonderful reading hut. Children are able to access the outdoor areas daily and are able to learn and explore the wonderful world that the great outdoors provides. The outdoors is also vitally important for children to develop their gross motor skills and we provide lots of exciting resources that support your child's physical development. We have bikes, large tyres for climbing, wooden benches, bats and different sized footballs. There are opportunities to develop children's fine motor skills such as,  threading, mark making  round, rollers and buckets of water to develop children's shoulder strength and opportunities for throwing and catching. 

At Batley Parish J I N C of E School we believe strongly in developing effective relationships with parents as partners in order to enhance a child's learning and development. We take time to get to know you and your child so that we can work together to achieve the best outcomes for each child. We run weekly 'learning together' sessions where you can come and spend time learning with your child. These sessions allow you to find out how your child is learning at school and how you can extend this at home. These sessions also enable you to discuss your child's progress with a member of staff. Miss James and the Early Years Practitioners are approachable and friendly and we are happy to help any answer any questions or talk to you about how to support your child's learning and development at home. 

We invite you to come and meet us at our welcome meeting which is held in the Summer term before your child starts school in the September. We also run stay and play sessions during the second half of the summer term where your child can come and meet their new teacher and explore their new classroom. If your child does not attend our Nursery then we will also arrange to come and visit them in their setting.

In the Autumn term we run parents evenings which allows us to discuss with you how your child has settled into school and discuss how we will be supporting their learning and development. We also also run a Parents Early Reading workshop so that you can find out about how your child learns to read at school. We provide lots of tips on how to make the teaching phonics and reading  at home fun! 

Each half term we also send home a topic web, which explains what the topic will be that term and what we will be learning to do at school. We also send a homework grid with different activities that you can choose to do with your child at home. This is a brilliant way to share your child's learning at home. 

Finally, we send home a class newsletter each week where we share with you what your children have been learning to do at school.

We also like to share lots of photographs of what and how your child has been learning here on our website so please take a look!

Here are are some wonderful photographs of our children learning at home with their families. We love to hear about all of the exciting things that children get to do when they are not in school. Please feel free to email your photographs to Miss James. 

charlotte.james@kirkleeseducation.uk

Eva decorates her Christmas tree at home with her family get ready to celebrate this special occasion.

Making a shop at home just like the one at school! 

Making a sign for his shop! What fantastic writing!

Using his scissors carefully to make a model of a rocket at home!