It was fantastic to see so many parents at the workshops on phonics yesterday. We hope you found the session informative and a useful insight into how we teach children to read in school.

All parents of children in Reception and Year 1 have been sent an email today containing the information shared at the workshop. The powerpoint presentation gives more information about what phonics is, how we teach phonics lessons in school and the Year 1 phonics screening check. It also shares helpful tips to support parents in reading with their child at home. 

The presentation contains this link https://parents.fft.org.uk/ to the FFT Success for All Parent Portal. Here you will find further helpful information, videos demonstrating how to pronounce all phonemes and be able to access the Shared Reader e-library of books that children use in their phonics lessons every day. The school’s passcode to enter the portal is vyd5iy. 

We also included in the email some helpful handouts that support answering some frequently asked questions by parents. We hope you will find the sound cards, alphabet strip and list of alliterative and formation phrases useful at home.

If you have any other questions or queries, please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s teacher.

Thank you for your continued support,

Mrs Kendrew-Jones

Last week the children in Reception were getting better at controlling a ball. They worked with a partner and as a class crew to pass, roll and kick the ball between them. It was great fun in the sun!

We enjoyed a soft play treat. It was so much fun 😁

We have been having fun in class 1 making play-dough bears 🐻

The children are definitely hooked into our new expedition. Keep up the great work class 1 🙂

This week the children in Classes 1 and 2 have been getting to know their new crews and crew leaders. We have had great fun getting to know each other, trying different activities together and learning more about what it means to be a crew. We’ve also been learning the words and actions to our new crew song (to the tune of Jingle Bells):

We are crew, we are crew

And this is what we do,

We stay safe, we are kind

Working hard to get smart!