The Reception Curriculum

A bespoke curriculum for our Reception children.

In Reception, your child will follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum. We are committed to the overarching principles which shape practice in the early years.

These are:

• Every child is a unique child, who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured
• Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships
• Children learn and develop well in enabling environments with teaching and support from adults, who respond to their individual interests and needs and help them to build their learning over time. Children benefit from a strong partnership between school and parents and/or carers.
• Children develop and learn at different rates.

Reception Broadoak Backpack for Life

Phonics

In Reception, children are grouped according to their phonic knowledge.  Sessions are delivered daily and focus on the systematic teaching of letters and their corresponding sounds. 

Supersonic Phonic Friends is the adopted scheme that is used by staff to deliver engaging and interactive daily phonic sessions.

**Reading for at least 10 minutes every day is great for your child’s happiness, wellbeing and, of course, for improving their reading and writing!

Our Commitment to Embedding a Life Long Love of Reading to ALL children

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What is Reading at Broadoak?

At Broadoak Primary School, we want all children to develop a lifelong love of reading that will become an integral part of their future. As a school, we believe that creating a culture of reading is a vital tool in ensuring our children are given the best life chances. Cultivating readers with a passion for a wide range of materials, will ensure that children’s love of reading will extend far beyond the classroom and allow them to build on their skills independently through a real curiosity and thirst for knowledge.

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It is our aim that all pupils-irrespective of their needs, abilities or background- will be able to:

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• Read with confidence, fluency and understanding
• Develop the pleasure of reading widely and often and appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
• Use higher order reading skills including retrieval and inference through the use of text referral, assessment of author’s intentions, justifications of their opinions and judgements and in the pursuit of critical awareness
• Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language. 

We use individual reading books, weekly book focuses to frame learning, high quality key texts and Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books to engage all our children in reading.

Reading at Home - Support for Parents

Parents play a vital part in their child's learning and progress.  Parents can support by reading daily, accessing the Supersonic Phonic Friends Newsletters, bedtime stories, modelling reading for pleasure as an adult, reading in the environment, trips to the library plus much more.

Sharing a book with a child is fun! It's a time for affection, laughing and talking together – and it can also give children a head start in life and help them become lifelong readers.