Starting Reception

Welcome to Reception 2023/2024

We are delighted that your child has been offered a Reception place at our wonderful school for September.

For those of you whose children already attend our Nursery; thank you for continuing your journey with us, and for those who are new to our school; we welcome you. We are a thriving community and we are very excited to welcome you to our school. We look forward to your child starting their schooling with us in September and getting to know them as the wonderful individuals that they are!

As a school, we are committed to smooth and timely transitions that allow the children to settle in, get to know their teachers and make new relationships with their friends. We fully believe that parents and carers play a key role in this transition so that you too can feel reassured that your child is safe and happy.  We hope you have enjoyed our transition process so far and we looking forward to seeing you all after the summer holidays.

In the meantime, however, please feel free to browse our school website and perhaps even follow us on Facebook (Please search for Wadebridge Primary Academy).

Kind regards,

Rebecca Whitlock 
Headteacher, Wadebridge Primary Academy

Welcome to Reception 2023

We cannot wait for you to join our class in September!

In the meantime, here’s some information about us, so that you can get to know a little bit about your new adults before you start school. 

The RB Team


Miss Miskowicz - Class Teacher

 Miss Miskowicz’s favourite things are: playing with my cheeky baby, Pippa and going on trips and adventures!

Miss Miskowicz’s favourite book is: ‘I WANT MY HAT BACK’. I wonder what happened to that rabbit….

Miss Miskowicz’s favourite activities are: storytelling, phonics and wake and shake.

Miss Miskowicz cannot wait to have dance parties and start our Reception adventure together!

Mrs Clayson - Class Teacher

Mrs Clayson’s favourite things are: running, going to the beach, gardening and spending time in my allotment.

Mrs Clayson’s favourite book is: ‘The magic faraway tree’.

Mrs Clayson’s favourite activities are: P.E, art and music.

Mrs Clayson can’t wait to meet you all and begin our journey in Reception together.


Mrs Valter - Teaching Assistant

Mrs Valter’s favourite things are: spending time with my family at the beach paddle boarding, cooking, and walking my dog Rascal.

Mrs Valter's favourite book is: ‘What the Ladybird Heard’.

Mrs Valter's favourite activities are:  art, phonics, reading stories and building dens.

Mrs Valter can’t wait to start our exciting adventure together!




Mrs Allen - Teaching Assistant

Mrs Allen’s favourite things are: reading and walking.

Mrs Allen’s favourite book is: ‘The Secret Garden’.

Mrs Allen’s favourite activities are: outdoor learning, mindful colouring and arts.

Mrs Allen can’t wait to meet you all! 

The RW Team

Mrs Yates - Class Teacher

Mrs Yates’ favourite things are: running, spending time with my family and going to the beach!

Mrs Yates’ favourite book is: ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’.

Mrs Yates’ favourite activities are: maths, storytelling and having fun!

Mrs Yates can’t wait to begin our journey together! 

Miss Taylor - Teaching Assistant

Miss Taylor’s favourite things are: spending time with my family, playing cricket and exploring the local beaches and moors.

Miss Taylor's favourite book is: ‘The Gruffalo’ - both my kids loved it!

Miss Taylor's favourite activities are: art, maths and P.E.

Miss Taylor can’t wait to meet everyone, and is excited about exploring all the fun topics that are planned.

Mrs Keat - Teaching Assistant

Mrs Keat’s favourite things are: walking, outdoor learning and going to the beach.

Mrs Keat's favourite book is: ‘The Twits’.

Mrs Keat's favourite activities are: building dens, making camp fires and walking.

Mrs Keat can’t wait to be part of the Reception team! 


A day in the life of Reception!

Please watch and enjoy our video of a day in the life of Reception..... 

Whilst some of the routines that you may see will look slightly different in September, hopefully this video will give you a taster of what it is like to be in our Reception classes and what a fun day filled with lots of learning you will have! 





RB story time with Miss Miskowicz

Get comfy, relax and enjoy story time with Miss Miskowicz!

RB story time with Mrs Clayson

Get comfy, relax and enjoy story time with Mrs Clayton!

RW story time with Mrs Yates

Get comfy, relax and enjoy story time with Mrs Yates!


Helpful hints for starting school...

We are thrilled to have welcomed our new Reception children in yesterday for their transition morning. Here are a couple of links to view for handy tips on continuing to support your child in this exciting journey of starting Primary school.

Getting ready to start school... 

We understand that starting school this year might feel a little bit different at the moment! We appreciate some children would not have been in a Nursery environment for a long time and we will be reviewing and adapting our transition in September to reflect this. We will be in contact with more information regarding starting school when we have received appropriate government guidance on schools returning in September.

In the mean-time, here are some suggestions of activities that you can be thinking about with your child to start to introduce the idea of starting school to them. There are also some important aspects of health and self-care that you can be developing and ensuring are in place if needed.

• Start to consider ways to introduce the idea of starting school to your child through books, stories and TV programmes.

• Talk to your child about what school will be like and the sorts of things that they will be able to do.

• Start making a list of the things that they enjoy doing and experiences that they have had over the last few months for you and your child to share with their new teacher.

• Start to make a list of questions that you are thinking about for September so that you can ask the new school.

• Consider including a walk past the school entrance on the main road as part of your “lockdown exercise”.

• Ensure your child is toilet trained /able to use the toilet independently – check out ERIC for more information and resources www.eric.org.uk.

• Think about ways that you can help your child to be a little bit more independent, it might be to recognise their coat or to wash their hands by themselves. Use this extra time they are with you at home to teach them new skills within dressing and toileting routines. Perhaps there are things that you automatically do for them that they are now developmentally ready to do for themselves?

• Check your child has had all their immunisations before starting school.

• If your child has Asthma or any other health condition that requires medication talk to your GP or Practice Nurse about managing this in school, and if medication is needed in school or if school may need to intervene at any point that a care plan is required.

• If Health Visitor or School Nurse advice is required ring the Client Advice Line 01872 322779 or email coco.childrenscmc@nhs.net

• If you need individual help and support look up Early Help on the Together for Families Cornwall Council website to self-refer or talk to your Early Years setting to help you with this.


How else can you help prepare your child for starting school?

Please view the document 'guide-to-starting-school' for great ideas!


Documents

View the following documents within your web browser or download to read later

Abi updated meet the staff for children 23 24.docx
Abi updated meet the staff for children 23 24.docx
guide-to-starting-school.pdf
guide-to-starting-school.pdf
letter on last transition session about activities.docx
letter on last transition session about activities.docx
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Name writing new with black dot.doc
Presentation PDF version for website.pdf
Presentation PDF version for website.pdf

 

 

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