Teacher Contact Information 

Your teachers are: Mrs Horton and Miss Parker

You can email them at:

Mrs Horton (Horse Chestnut)

sophiehorton@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk    

Miss Parker (Sweet Chestnut)

cherylparker@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

 Weekly Update 13/06/2025 

This week we have continued our Castles topic. We have been focussing on the lives of people who would have lived in castles. We have learnt about their different jobs, such as; blacksmiths, carpenters, merchants, grooms, maids and bakers. We also compared life in a castle to life now.

Next week we will begin our topic on pirates. 

Behaviour Policy:

As part of our transition to Year 1, we are now moving to more formal behaviour policy that the rest of the school follows. If your child is not following the class rules and expectations, they will be a reminder not change/stop their behaviour. If they continue the behaviour, they will be given a warning. If the behaviour still does not stop, they will be given a repair. This may be missing some choosing time or spending some time in another class if appropriate. They will then spend some time with an adult to unpick what has happened and to work out how they can repair the situation. If your child gets to a repair, you will receive a text. You do not need to do anything; the situation will have been dealt with in school.

If you have any questions, the full behaviour policy is available to read on the school website. You can also speak to us as always.

Phonics:

The children have continued to work hard in phonics this week. Please remember to read with your child 5 times a week and record this in their reading records. It really makes a huge difference to their progress. Thank you for your continued support with this.  

Maths:

This week, we have been learning about grouping and sharing. We have sharing amounts among 2, 3 and 4 groups. We have also investigated sharing different amounts between 2 and noticed that odd numbers cannot be shared between 2, but even numbers can.  

As a home challenge, encourage your child to share amounts fairly between family members.

Library Trip:

We will be visiting the library on Monday. You should have already handed in your child’s library card, if they have one, and their £1 coin to their teacher. If you have not done this, please make sure your child has these items on Monday so that they can participate fully with the trip.

Remember, you need to collect your child at 2:35pm from Bude Light.
Thank you to those of you who have volunteered to walk with us. Please meet us outside the school office at 12:25pm. We will be leaving at 12:30pm.

Beach Trip:

We will be going to the beach on Friday 27^th June. We will need support with walking to the beach in the morning. Please make sure you have responded on the Gateway app.  

Have a brilliant weekend.  

Mrs Horton and Miss Parker 

Dates for the diary:

Monday 16^th June – Library trip

Friday 20^th June – Summer fayre

Friday 27^th June – Beach trip

Friday 4^th July – Reception bike track session

Thursday 10^th July – Transition Day

Friday 11^th July – Transition Day

Monday 14^th July – Reception forest school session

Friday 18^th July – Last day of the year

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