Welcome to Willow Class

My name is Mrs Potter and I am the teacher of the reception class with our lovely teaching assistants Mrs Clark and Mrs Wiater.

The reception class or EYFS as it can be known, encourages the children to become explorers and investigators; and to develop their creative minds through child-initiated learning and adult led activities.

When the children begin school in September we focus on giving them the chance to settle in and make new friends, and then we gradually introduce short inputs such as Phonics and Maths.  At the end of this term we will be looking at the people who help us in our community and learn about their different roles. 

There are many ways to support your children’s learning, at Newtown we recognise the importance of reading.  As a celebration of the children’s reading at home we have the 100 Club, where the children will receive certificates and prizes for the times they have read at home.  Who will get to the milestone first?

When the children are in full-time they will have P.E. lessons weekly. Please ensure their P.E. kit is in school every day.

We are very excited to meet all of you and get started on another exciting school year.  Please come back and visit this page throughout the year to see what your child has been up to.

Mrs Potter 

Term 1 in Willow Class

Wow! What an amazing first term the children in Willow class have had. We have been busy learning about the different people within our community who help us as well as getting to know each other and our school. We were lucky enough to have a visit from some local police officers who came to talk to us about their job and how they can support our community. Over the course of the term the children have been building relationships and getting to know each other. We have seen some fantastic teamwork when building models, creating small world areas and telling stories. We have also been learning set 1 sounds, practicing writing these in lots of different ways and trying to match the initial sound to a picture. Some of us have even been having a go at writing simple words to match a picture using our new sounds! We have had an amazing term and look forward to seeing what comes in term 2!

New outdoor equipment!

Willow class have been lucky enough to receive some new scooters, bikes and tricycles from our Friends of Newtown (FONS). Developing our physical skills is an important part of the time the children spend in the early years and supports with creating healthy habits for the future. Over the years, our bikes and tricycles have been well used and therefore have started breaking down and needed replacing. The Friends of Newtown have very kindly donated some new equipment for the children using money raised through our school fundraising. Events such as the summer fayre, Easter bingo and school cinema nights are the reason that things like this are able to happen. We greatly appreciate the support of our school community with these events and fundraising activities. Here are some pictures of the new Willow class children absolutely loving their new equipment!