Soft sounds session

As we are beginning to have daily phonics lessons and sending children home with sound pots, we would like to be as supportive as we can. Subsequently, we would like to offer a session to parents/carers about phonics and the 'soft sounds' that are used.

We are more than happy to be as flexible as needs be, so we would like to know if you would be interested and the best time to suit you. I will leave a sheet of paper near the parent board (near the cloakroom area) asking for a name and preferred time i.e. directly after school, before school etc. 

Mr. Gibson

Sound pots and home learning diaries

Hello all,

Tomorrow we will be sending your children home with 2 things:-

Firstly, a home learning diary - this is where we will begin writing in books that we have been reading in group reading (on the right page). Your children will also be introduced to the school library next week and spoken to about individual reading books (currently banded). It will be our responsibility to change the group reading books on a weekly basis but we encourage you and your child to change individual reading books whenever you deem it necessary. We would kindly ask that you take no more than 3 books at any given time. Please don't feel that it is only reading that needs to be included in the home learning diaries - feel free to add other activities as well as reading (on the left page).

Secondly, sound pots - We have already begun doing a daily phonics lesson and the children are really getting along well and highlighting different sounds that they see. We want to encourage children to carry  on doing this as much as possible as it is a crucial part of early reading, so we will be sending home a little pot with several small cards in them. We would encourage you to sit down with your child and ask them to sound out the different cards in random order and put them together to make 3 letter words. We don't intend for this to be a burden, 5 minutes every couple of days maximum! We will be changing the sounds in the pots regularly depending on what we are tackling in class. We will never send home sounds that the children have not covered in school! 

The first set of sounds will be s, a, t, p, i, n

If you have any questions please feel free to ask. 

Wow! Moments

We've had a fantastic few days in reception! All the children should be very proud of themselves, they've been brilliant - certainly a few tired people on Friday afternoon. 

We sent home Wow! Moments yesterday with the children so if you spot your children doing something new or creative or just reciting numbers, please write it down on to one of the slips and bring it in. We are hoping to display them on the board by the cloakroom area when they start coming in. If you're not sure what to write down please don't hesitate to ask one of the reception team, and if you need some more slips we will leave them by the door in a plastic wallet.

From next week we will also be sending children home with sound pots (I'll explain in a separate post) and home learning diaries so it would be great if you could send your children in to school with their book bag and put it into their trays - thank you.

Reception team

Sun hats

Just a quick note about bringing in sun hats and cream. It was quite a warm today and if Mr. Weather Forecaster can be believed it will be like it again tomorrow. Sun hats are fine to be brought in by the children but sun cream must have a slip to go with it, available from the office, simply stating that we are allowed to apply the cream.

Thank you

Welcome back to a new year!

We have had a great first day in reception. All the children settled in really quickly and were so enthusiastic! We began by making a Class Charter, outlining our rules and signing it with a hand print - the children loved getting their hands painted. 

We have begun our topic of Me, Myself and I, where we will be discussing all the fabulous things that the children can do! Our key question for the topic is 'What makes each of us similar and different?' 

A few children have also started to make their own Papier Mache mask and we intend to get all the children creating by next week! 

We will hopefully have some home learning opportunities up on the board by the cloakroom by the early part of next week.

Finally, the first reminder of probably many, the reception parent information session is on the 16th September at 9.00am - there will also be a newsletter going out to you on September 30th. 

We look forward to seeing you all again tomorrow! 

Day One!

Hello to everyone!

We hope you've had a fantastic summer and enjoyed the lovely sunshine that's been on offer. 

As I'm sure you're all aware, tomorrow is the first day of the new school year. Firstly, we would be grateful if you could come with your PE kits tomorrow please, as we will be having a PE lesson! 

We will be opening the doors at 8.45am tomorrow morning for you to come in and hang your coats, bags, PE kits and anything else up on your named peg hooks by the playground exit. You will then have a Teddy Job' to do! The rota for Teddy Jobs will be displayed on the cupboard door in the classroom and as you will see, each animal corresponds to a table and a specific job. 

There is also a parent information board, displaying plans, and a home learning board, that will contain different activities you could do and pictures of your work brought in from home, in the classroom.

We will also have a pile of 'Wow!' cards available for you to take home and fill in whenever you see your children do something new and adventurous! Please don't ever think we will get bored of receiving Wow! moments, because we will not! 

Myself, Mrs. Howell and Mrs. Collis will be on hand, so if you any questions please don't hesitate to ask. 

Enjoy the final evening of the summer holidays and we will see you tomorrow! 

Reception team

After School Club

Our new After School Club will be starting from Monday 9th September! 3.30 to 5.50 Monday to Thursday.
We shall be offering a range of activities including PE, games and physical fitness provided by Elliott Sawyer our new Sports Coach and Alex Godfrey. Plus indoor activities and a healthy snack organised by existing familiar members of our school staff!
Please support this new venture if you require childcare or indeed just want your child to enjoy additional opportunities for PE above and beyond our normal curriculum!
Details available from the school office.