Teacher Contact Information 

Your teachers are: Miss Parker, Mrs Reay and Mrs Baker

You can email them at:

Miss Parker (Sweet Chestnut)

cherylparker@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Mrs Reay and Mrs Baker (Horse Chestnut)

naomireay@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk    lesleybaker@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk    

Friday 26^th April

This week, we have continued our learning about jungles. The visit from Kim Insull with his reptiles was a real highlight. Please see the photos on Tapestry. We hope your child has told you all about the creatures they met and handled. Thank you for paying £3 on the School Gateway App. Kim is based at Affinity Shopping Centre, formerly Atlantic Village, and you can have further workshops there.

We are waiting patiently for the butterflies to emerge from their chrysalis. It can’t be long now!

YR Class Assembly

As you will be aware it is our class assembly on Tuesday, please drop your child off as normal and then come to the main door to be signed in before going to the hall. As it is the children’s first assembly, it will be not be long but will give the children the opportunity to share their learning with you.  

Trip to Bude Library Friday 10^th May:

Forms have been given to each child about joining Bude Library. If your child is already a member, they don’t need to return the form. If they are not a member, please fill out the form and hand it to a YR member of staff before Friday 3^rd May. We will then ensure all the children who are new members will be given a library card on our school trip.

Everyone has been sent an email about our trip to Bude Library. We need all parents to let us know on, School Gateway, whether they will be providing £1 for an ice-cream/can pick their child up from Bude and whether you can help. If you have already replied, thank you very much.

Phonics:

The children are settling into their new phonics groups. Most children will have been given red words (on pink paper). They are words that they can not Fred Talk so they just have to recognise and read them. They are learning to read and write these in their phonics lessons. Please can you help your child to read these words and it would be helpful if they can write them too.

Please continue to ensure that you are reading with your child at least 5 times per week and recording this in their reading log every time. Thank you so much for your continued engagement with your child’s learning at home.

Maths:

This week, we have been learning ‘first, next and now’ stories in maths with addition and subtraction. The children enjoyed sitting on a pretend bus with 10 seats.

‘First there were 3 passengers, then 4 more got on, now there are 7 passengers. 3 + 7 = 10.’

Or

‘First there were 6 passengers, then 4 got off, now there are 2 passengers. 6 - 4 = 2.’

You might want to play this game at home with 10 toys. Don’t forget to share photos with us on Tapestry!

Outdoor Play and Physical Development:

This week, the children have been practising their aim by throwing beanbags into hoops. This is to help prepare them for sports day.

Sun Hats and Cream:

As we enter the summer term, we want to ensure that all children are safe in the sun when accessing learning outside.

From now until the summer holidays, every child needs to bring a clearly named sun hat to school every day. If your child doesn’t have a named sun hat in school, they will be unable to access learning on the terrace or the outdoor area during choosing time.

Please ensure that your child’s sun cream has been applied before school every day. When the weather becomes significantly warmer, there will be the option for your child to have sun cream at school in order to top-up during the day. At this point, your child will be able to bring in a named bottle of sun cream from home to leave at school. Your child will need to be able to apply this independently.

Water Bottles:

A gentle reminder that children are only allowed to have water in their bottles at school, no squash please, unless special arrangements have been made with the class teacher and Mrs Bridgman. Thank you.

Head Lice:

We have been made aware that there is a case of head lice in our year group. Please ensure to check your child’s hair and treat accordingly.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Parker, Mrs Baker and Mrs Reay

Dates for the diary

Tuesday 30^th April – YR Class Assembly (adults welcome)

Friday 10^th May – Trip to Bude Library in the afternoon (we will need volunteers to help us walk down and we will be asking parents/carers to collect from the library – more details to follow)

Monday 20^th May – EYFS and KS1 Sports Day AM (children to wear their house colours – this is the same as their colour team at school)

Friday 24^th May – INSET Day

Monday 27^th – Friday 31^st May – Half-term

Monday 15^th July –Beach Day (details to follow) please note this is a different date to the one on last week’s newsletter.

With your child, please carry out a variety of the following tasks at least 5 times a week.

• Practise recognising letter sounds using flashcards daily – this is essential practise to get your child reading.
• If your child is consistently recognising most of the letter sounds, make simple words out of the flashcards for them to practise reading. For example, sat, tap, dog, bed. Encourage your child to point to each letter as they say the sounds. Once they have said each sound, they need to blend them together to say the whole word. Eg. s – a –t, sat. They may need you to model this initially before they have a try.
• Share your child’s lilac book. This book has no words. Your child needs to look closely at the picture and talk about what they think is happening. This develops their oracy comprehension and inference skills.
• Based on your child’s most recent phonics assessment, the may also bring home a Read, Write, Inc Blending book or a ditty sheet to read at home.

Please keep all of the above in your child’s book bag. They need to bring their book bag to school every day.

Complete this reading record at least 5 times a week so that we know that your child is practising their reading at home.

Please make sure that you date and initial to show that your child has read their lilac book/blending book/flash cards.

We will check the reading logs once a week. Please speak to any member of the Reception staff if you have any questions.

Thank you for your continued support in helping your child learn to read.

The YR Team