Ditcham Park School - Reception
The Reception Class at Ditcham Park offers a happy, warm and caring atmosphere where children can be free to relax and learn at their own pace. We have a beautiful big classroom but small class numbers so we can offer the children a high level of individual attention.
The Reception Class at Ditcham Park offers a happy, warm and caring atmosphere where children can be free to discover and learn at their own pace. We have beautiful, bright and spacious inside and outside classrooms which are well resourced to support child generated and teacher-led topics. Small class numbers, staffed by a fully qualified EYFS specialist teacher, with a full-time teaching assistant working alongside, provide the children with a high level of individual attention to promote progress in the six areas of learning.
Our topic-based curriculum is wide and varied, with the flexibility to tailor the topics to individual interests. We believe that children learn by doing and are enabled through investigative activities, with a strong emphasis on both directed and free play.
By being so thoroughly immersed and involved in the learning experience they acquire confidence and security to explore their world and by providing a stimulating and motivating environment, we make learning a positive and rewarding experience!
Ditcham is set in the most beautiful surroundings and we take our learning outside as much as possible. We go for long, seasonal walks in all sorts of weather, looking for bluebells in the spring, hunting for mini-beasts in the summer, painting leaves of green, orange, red and yellow in the autumn and of course, making snowmen in the winter!
Ditcham is renowned as being a family school and, being on a single site we are fortunate to have strong links with the senior school enabling us all to benefit from each other.
Senior school pupils often choose to help in the Reception classroom as part of their activity choices associated with the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme. We enjoy regular visits our Art Gallery and watch the Senior School Orchestra and Woodwind Group rehearse.
We welcome and encourage parental involvement within the Reception Class. We believe our team includes the children, parents and staff-we all want to learn together in this wonderful school where every child, and adult, is known and valued.
We have had 2 Early Years OFSTED Inspections, for which we were delighted to receive a judgement of ‘Outstanding’.
We have recently also had an ISIS Inspection and again, the Early Years received a judgement of ‘Outstanding’.
