Welcome to
Elder 2 – Reception
The children in Reception are offered a ‘hands on’ play based curriculum, both indoors and outdoors, throughout the day.
In addition to the activities planned by the adults, the children are offered plenty of opportunities to direct their own learning and staff are highly skilled in observing the children and recognising opportunities to support and extend children’s ideas.
Spring letter 2026
We’d like to take this opportunity to welcome both children and parents back to school and to wish you all a happy 2026! We hope you all had a fun and restful break over Christmas and you are all ready for a busy Spring term! Please see our diary dates at the bottom of the page.
This half term our topic is ‘Winter Woodland’. Attached is a copy of our Topic Web for Spring 1. We will begin by travelling to Norway and compare the country to England. We will use a range of texts to inspire our learning, including 3 written by Julia Donaldson: ‘The Christmas Pine’, ‘Stick Man’ and ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’. We will look at woodland habitats and go on a walk around our local area exploring the different woodlands and creating natural art with sticks. We will also explore countries within the UK in our Travelling Tuesday sessions. After February half term, we will enjoy learning all about Chinese New Year. Our topic will then change to ‘Superheroes’ and ‘Easter.’ We have lots of exciting things to look forward to!
New home learning challenges will be sent for this half term so please try and work through some activities with your child at home. Thank you for supporting your child with home learning challenges so far this year. Please return your child’s book to school so that new challenges can be added.
Many Thanks,
Miss Rigg, Miss France, Mrs White and Mrs Abraham
Diary Dates:
Tuesday 20th January – Reception Hearing Tests
Wednesday 28th January – Height and Weight checks
Wednesday 4th February – Reception Vision Tests
Friday 13th February – Wear your Scarf to School Day (mental health/PSHE)
16th – 20th Feb 2026 – HALF TERM
W.b. 23rd February – Chinese New Year Week
Thursday 5th March – World Book Day
Thursday 12th March (9-10am) – EYFS Stay and Play
Friday 27th March – School closes @ 2pm for Easter
