1. St Charles’ RC Primary School Reception Class

2. Welcome Mrs Nealings - Head Teacher Mrs Higgins - Deputy Head Teacher
Father O’ Connor - Parish Priest
Mrs Ambrose - School Business Manager
Mrs Siou - Office Assistant
Alan- Caretaker

3. Meet the team Miss Maggiore Reception Teacher
Mrs Francis Teaching Assistant

4. School mission Mission statement
Mission statement
St Charles’ is our school with Jesus at the heart, where we can share the joy of the Gospel. We work to be the best we can be and live life to the full. We respect and care for each other in a welcoming place.
Together we follow in Jesus’ footsteps in our living and learning.

5. Catholic Life of St Charles’
Come and See RE curriculum
Daily worship -prayers
Children join in with whole school liturgies and celebrations
Charitable giving – Daft as a brush day, Children in Need, Cafod, links to Coloma school
Year of Mercy

6. Footsteps Behaviour system Building positive relationships
Footsteps are followed throughout school

7. EYFS Curriculum Play based learning
PLOD - topics following the children’s interests
Free flow – to the outdoor area
Carpet time
Group Work
Learning Journals

9. Structure of the school day
8.50am Classroom doors open
9.00 am School begins
11.45am Lunch
1.00pm Afternoon session begins
3.15 pm School ends

10. Daily Routines
Children enter the Reception classroom from their outdoor area. School day starts at 9am and doors open at 8.50am.
Snack time - Children receive a piece of fruit daily and milk
Water - Water bottle – clearly labelled
Lunchtime - Universal Free School Meals – please complete form
Hot or cold meal options – banding system

11. Lunch Routine
Menus are displayed under the canopy and can be found on the school website
Choose your child’s meal and place the coloured band in the holder
Staff will inform you if your child is not eating
Please inform school of any allergies

12. RWI Where are the children at? Set 1 sounds – assessment Groupings
How to support at home
Letter formation sheets
Sounds around the environment
Initial sounds in words
Sounds in their name
Home reading books – October half term

13. Is fun and VERY engaging!
Numicon
Helps your child to see connections between numbers understand number relationships
Encourages children to visualise numbers
Helps your child to make generalisations
The Numicon approach is only part of your child’s wider experience with numbers
Is fun and VERY engaging!

14. Uniform
The uniform is white polo shirt, tie, navy or grey trousers, navy pinafore or skirt and a maroon cardigan or jumper. Black flat shoes.
Jumpers, cardigans and coats can be purchased from school. Order forms are in the pack.
PE kit is a white polo shirt, navy shorts and black sand shoes.
Outdoor wellingtons to be kept in
school.
No jewellery.

15. Sharing the learning journey
Wow moments
Stay and play sessions
Nativity (a must see!)
Times for you to see your child’s learning journal
End of year report
Speak to class teacher at any time
Weekly learning update
Class Blog

16. General information PTA Text messaging service Medical needs
Please label all clothing
Water bottles
Please inform staff of who will be picking up or dropping off your child
Voluntary contribution for cooking equipment £1 per term
Information is available on school website
Open door – any concerns speak to a the class teacher
Parking

17. We look forward to working with you this year!
Thank you
We look forward to working with you this year!