Hi all,
Just a reminder that the final parents evening is tomorrow evening - starting straight after school! Also, a quick note to say thank you to everyone for really promoting the independence with the writing activities in the morning. Persevere for 4/5 weeks and you will really see a marked difference!
On to other things! As you may be aware, we have begun implementing a new scheme for our phonics teaching: Read, Write Inc. This had an initial phase where the phonics was taught but we have now extended this to include a reading element too. This now means that your child will be reading every day in school (with a partner) and will be engaged in text activities for an extended period of time. With this in mind, we will NO LONGER be sending home group reading books on a weekly basis. You may notice that group reading books will start to be taken out of book bags through the rest of this week. Instead of us changing your child's book on a weekly basis we will be covering this reading in our Read, Write Inc time.
In order to ensure you still have a book at home to go through and explore we propose the following: There will be a space in the classroom (yet to be confirmed) where the current series of group reading books will be available for you and your children to take as you please and change as regularly as you see fit. There will be a limit of 2 books per child to ensure coverage and fairness. There may be a short transition time whilst we get all the resources together but we hope by next week at the latest the books will be available. You can choose to do this in the morning when you come in, or at the end of the day the classroom will be open for 20 minutes to give you an opportunity to come in! If anyone has any questions, please let us know!
Reception team
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