Reception and Year 1 children access the same classrooms throughout the day to learn through a range of exciting and engaging topics. 

The day starts with all children in their registration classes. After registration, the children separate into their Phonics groups (original classes from September) and learn phonics with their year group peers. Year 1 children also have reading sessions and handwriting sessions during this time, whilst Reception complete their daily maths and handwriting sessions. 

All children then go out to break together after having had their snack. 

After break, the children spend the rest of their day in their 'learning groups'. These groups are almost exclusively year group based again, so that children are learning with their peers at the same age/stage of their education journey. The children rotate around the different 'learning zones', learning maths, literacy and language and creative subjects. Please see the weekly timetable example below. 

Year 1 children continue to receive a maths and English lesson every day along with sessions covering the rest of the curriculum areas that we are required to teach. The children have more freedom to explore through independent activities once they have completed the task that has been planned by the teachers, meaning that they get a good balance of formal learning and continuous provision. 

Reception children learn through play in all learning zones and adults will call children to work 1:1 or in a small group to complete tasks across the week.