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WELCOME TO RECEPTION 2025-2026

A very warm welcome from the Reception class team at Mersey Vale Primary School

Mr Matthew Ellis – Class Teacher 

Support Staff

Ms Dani Lansdale 

Thank you for visiting our webpage. This is a good place to find...

• class news
• pictures of things we have done
• examples of work we are proud of
• homework information
• key sounds and words to practise at home 
• links to interesting websites we have enjoyed in class 

            ....and lots more

Our Reception page on Class Dojo page is a good place to find more regular updates. messages and photos of what we have been up to each week!

Reception Information 2025-26

• Please bring book bags in daily. These are needed to bring home reading books as well as any letters, pictures, or anything else your child does in class. 
• Please bring labelled waterbottles in daily. There is no need to bring in a snack as school provides this each morning and afternoon, but some children do prefer to bring their own snack from home. We ask that you support them to choose healthy snacks, for example fruit, crackers, and cereal bars instead of crisps, chocolate or biscuits.
• Most children will bring home a weekly reading book linked to our reading scheme, which they should to read to you. They should read the same book a few times, hopefully becoming more confident and more fluent each time. Please bring these back to school every day.
• Children will also be allowed to bring home a picture book from our class library every Friday. These will probably be too tricky for the children to read themselves, but they will really enjoy and benefit hugely from having them read to them. Please bring these books back to school by Thursday and we will swap them for new ones on Fridays. If the previous book has not yet been returned children will not be able to take another one.  
• PE lessons happen every Thursday. Your child should come to school dressed in their PE kits for the whole day.  
• In our phonics lessons we follow the Read Write Inc. scheme. Children will take part in daily phonics sessions. Each lesson will include learning a new sound, revisiting sounds we've learned in previous sessions, practising letter formation, and guided reading.
• When reading books with children or practising writing with them, try to use the sounds that letters make rather than their letter names. For example, we talk about 'm' as the sound 'mmmmm' and not 'muh' or 'em'. Please also try to draw their attention to the capital letters and try to remind them that capital letters are special and only used for the beginning of names and sentences. They are not found in the middle of words. We follow the letter formation 'stories' or 'ditties' from Read Write Inc. which really help the children remember how to form letters correctly. 
• Reception Baseline Assessment: Information for parents

Here's a really helpful video which shows you how to say the sounds when helping children with their reading:

How to pronounce sounds