Reception In Action
For Parents and Carers of our new Reception children,
We are delighted that you have chosen our school and trusted us with the educational journey of your child. Whether you already have older children at our school or this is your first child, we very much look forward to working in partnership with you for the seven years ahead!
We will update this page regularly with everything you need to know about your child starting school with us and events planned for the summer term to enable us to get to know your child.
We will also be sending a link to sign up to our school communicaiton system, Parentmail, so please keep an eye out for this.
Classes for September:
We expect to have three Reception-only classes in September and, based on current numbers, each class will have around 21 children in. To ensure a fair balance of children, class groups and class teachers will not be finalised until July when we have completed all of our transition work with children, families and nurseries.
Term dates for 2023-2024:
Can be found here.
Please note that term-time holidays will not be authorised.
Welcome to reception September 2023:
Wraparound Care:
On-site wraparound care is being provided by Happy Hols in our school. They run a breakfast club from 7:30am and after school club until 6pm. For further information please contact Happy Hols via email . Application packs can also be collected from the school office.
School lunch and snack:
Children in Reception, Year One and Year Two are all entitled to a free school lunch every day. This can be a hot lunch or a provided packed sandwich lunch. You need to order these via our caterer Kingswood before 8am each day. The easiest way is to order for a full term ahead of time. If you do not want to take-up the free lunch, you can provide your child with a healthy packed lunch from home.
Children in Reception are given a free piece of fruit every day as well as an afternoon snack for which there is a charge of £5 per long term (£15 per year).
Please ensure you inform the school and Kingswood catering of any allergies.
Pupil Premium (formerly known as Free School Meals):
If you are not sure if your child might be eligible for Pupil Premium (a sum of money given by the government for children from certain low income families), please speak to us in confidence about this as we can easily check your eligibility. Eligible children are given a personal “allowance” to help with the purchase of school-related items (e.g. uniform) or contribute towards enrichment activities (e.g. school trips, music lessons) every year.
Further details and how to apply can be found on the North Northamptonshire Council website.
What children will need:
School uniform which can be purchased from any high street retailer or supermarket. The bottle green logoed jumper / sweatshirt / cardigan can currently only be purchased from Stevensons schoolwear shop on Abington Square in Northampton town centre. Logoed book bags can also be purchased here.
Children should bring the following to school with them each day and all items should be clearly named please:
- Water bottle filled with water only (and can be refilled during the day)
- Packed lunch box (unless they are having hot dinners which are free for every child in Reception, Years One and Two)
- Bookbag (clearly named)
What to wear:
Children should wear their full school uniform to school every day except the days when their class has PE. Children can wear their PE kit to school and all day on their one PE day which we will confirm nearer the time.
Please ensure all items are named (especially book bags, coats, cardigans and jumpers!)
Dates to remember:
Teddy bears’ picnic:
We would like to invite all of our new children with one parent / carer to join us for a teddy bears’ picnic on Tuesday 20th June from 1:15pm – 2:30pm. On this day, please bring a picnic blanket, a picnic lunch / snacks and a drink and your child’s favourite teddy bear! School staff will join the picnic and it will be an informal chance for children to visit our school, see the playgrounds and classroom and share a story with a member of our Reception team.
Stay and Play / transition day:
On Monday 3rd July 2023 we would like to invite each of our new children and one parent / carer into school for a stay and play session. To ensure the teachers can get to know each child, we would like half the children to come to stay and play in the morning and half in the afternoon.
Children with surnames beginning with letters A-G and their one parent / carer are invited to attend in the morning: 9am – 11:30am
Children with surnames H-Z are invited to attend in the afternoon: 1-3:30pm
Key information for your child’s start of school:
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Week beginning |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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4th September
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INSET day (staff training) school closed to children |
INSET day (staff training) school closed to children
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Group A attend 8:45 11:45am Group B attend 12:45 – 3:30pm
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Group A attend 8:45 11:45pm Group B attend 12:45pm – 3:30pm |
Group A attend 8:45 11:45pm Group B attend 12:45pm – 3:30pm |
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11th September |
Morning plus lunch OR afternoon session: * Group A attend 8:45 – 12:30pm (to include lunch) Group B attend 1:00pm – 3:30pm |
Morning OR lunch with afternoon session: Group A attend 8:45 – 11:45pm * Group B attend 12:00 - 3:30pm (to include lunch)
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* All children to attend 8:45 – 1:15pm (to include lunch) |
* All children to attend 8:45 – 1:15pm (to include lunch) |
ALL DAY * All children to attend 8:45 – 3:30pm (to include lunch) |
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18th September |
All children full-time 8:45am – 3:30pm all week and from now on |
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*YOU MUST ORDER YOUR CHILD’S LUNCH ON THE KINGSWOOD WEBSITE (www.kingswoodcatering.co.uk)
Children with surnames A-G - Group A
Children with surnames H – Z – Group B