Aspire, Believe - Together Achieve
Let Your Light Shine - Matthew 5:16
Reception
Staffing:
Explorers – Mrs Gould and Mrs Lord + Mrs Griffiths (TA) + ANO SEN TA
We are so excited to welcome you to our Explorer Class page.
Making positive relationships is at the heart of everything we do in reception, and in Explorer Class ‘work is our play.’ We learn through a range of adult led and child initiated activities in our indoor and outdoor classrooms, where your child will have opportunities to explore, investigate and create in our exciting and engaging environment.
As your child settles into school we will begin to add information and photos about how we teach our Early Years curriculum including; phonics, handwriting and maths.
We can’t wait for when things are better and we can welcome you our classroom, but until then please come back and check this page regularly. It will give you an overview of life in reception at St Barnabas and all the fun we have.
Download: Explorer Parent Expectation Evening 2020

Mrs Gould & Mrs Lord
Phonics workshop
Here you will find out what phonics is, how we teach it in Explorer class and ways in which you can support your child’s learning at home.
Download: Phonics PowerPoint Presentation
Blending to read clip (page 4)
How to say the sounds (page 5)
Tricky words song (page 6)
Term 3
This term we will be reading the story ‘The Egg by M. P Robertson’. I wonder what is inside that gigantic egg?
Home Learning
Term 2
This term we have been zooming on our brooms, through the deep dark wood, all the way back to our family trees in time for Christmas.
We have really enjoyed exploring Julia Donaldson stories. We met the witch from Room on the Broom, acted out the story and created new characters for our own versions. Then in our own Forest area, we went on a hunt for the Gruffalo and his woodland friends. Finally we found Stickman lost, and we helped get him back to his family tree in time for Christmas.
We have been celebrating Christmas: listening to the Christmas story, acting it out and singing lots of lovely Christmas songs. We really enjoyed taking part in our whole school sing along to Oh What a Glorious Night, which has been posted on the website.
Term 1
As we settle into school this term, we will be exploring our feelings through reading the story of The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas. You can listen to the story by following this link…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih0iu80u04Y
Being school ready…
https://www.pacey.org.uk/working-in-childcare/spotlight-on/being-school-ready/
In reception we use the Tapestry learning journal app to record evidence of learning for each child. We are able to share this with parents/carers, which provides a great home-school link.
https://tapestry.info/parents-carers.html