Reception | Park Spring Primary School

Accepting your Reception place for September 2023

If your child has been offered a place in Reception for September 2023 from the admissions team at Leeds City Council, please email Mrs Houghton (EYFS Leader) at admissions@parkspringprimary.co.uk to accept or decline their place. ALL children must have their places accepted or declined, including those pupils who already attend Park Spring nursery.

Please provide the following information in the email:

Your child’s name, address and date of birth
Your name and telephone number
The current nursery your child attends
Any other significant information we may need to know about your child at this point. For example, medical conditions, special educational needs or food allergies.

You will then be contacted via email in the next few weeks with further information regarding your child’s transition into Reception. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

We look forward to welcoming you and your child to Park Spring Primary School Reception!

Mrs Houghton, EYFS Leader

A big thank you to Reception for collecting Toys for some Afghan Refugees. They also recently wrote letters to the children which was so special. What a loving caring family Park Spring is.

9 Reception children created their own Stegasaurus drawings in drawing club on Monday. They demonstrated resilience, creativity, enjoyment, good fine motor control and excellent listening skills. They followed Mrs Houghton’s instructions to create their pictures in the style of Rob Biddulph. Watch this space for Part 2!

Reception had a great day celebrating World Book Day, diving into the story The Dinosaur that Pooped a Planet! The children created rockets and imagined where it would fly to, made their very own bookmarks and enjoyed lots of stories throughout the day. We even got to see our friends – who are remote learning -on Zoom and share a story with them!

: Building a rocket!

Wow, what a busy half-term! A BIG well done to Reception for settling back into school so brilliantly.

We have learnt lots of new sounds to help us read (21 to be exact!) and we are now beginning to read words, and even sentences, with these sounds in.

We are masters at numbers to five and can say how each number is made up. We can also say what one more than a given number is.

Each week our children have enjoyed reading and engaging in exciting activities based around a book. Our children have experienced a falconry visit. We met four different types of owls and asked lots of questions to the handlers. This follows on from our Owl Babies story we studied.

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt was another great book we brought to life! Our children enjoyed a bear hunt in our very own Park Spring Primary grounds. They did a brilliant job at using their vocabulary to tell the story out loud, while we walked through ‘swishy swashy grass’ and the ‘oozy mud’, into a ‘big, dark forest’ to find a… BEAR CAVE! The children couldn’t wait to using their writing skills to try retell the story.

We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re going to catch a big one!

We celebrated Bonfire Night with all our children enjoying their own sparkler, raised money for Children in Need and commemorated Remembrance Day.

As the season began to change we entered into a winter theme. Our children created fantastic polar bear paintings! They had to mix different shades of blue using water colours.