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 19/06/2026
This week we have begun our two week topic on Pirates. Each day the children have received a letter from Captain Blackbeard, who is looking for recruits to join his pirate crew. This week, the children have chosen pirate names, sang sea shanties and learnt how to talk like a pirate.
The children did brilliantly during Sports Day on Monday. We were very proud and hope you enjoyed watching them!
Beach Trip:
We will be going to the beach on Wednesday 15th July.
Please make sure you have responded on the gateway app with the following information:
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 focusing on pattern and visualisation. We have recapped simple ABAB repeating patterns, for example; red, blue, red, blue. We have also explored more complex repeating patterns including; ABC, ABC, ABC and ABBC, ABBC, ABBC. The children found it much easier to continue pattens then to create their own. As a home challenge, support you child to create patterns at home using their toys. Start with similar patterns and then encourage them to attempt more complex patterns.
Bike Track:
We have rearranged our postponed bike track session to Friday 26th June. Bikes without stabilizers and balance bikes only. All children must bring in a helmet.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Horton and Miss Parker
Dates for the diary:
Friday 26th June – Bike Track sesison
Thursday 2nd July – Forest School Day
Thursday 9th and Friday 10th July – Transition Days
Wednesday 15th July – Beach Trip
Friday 17th July – Last Day of the School Year
Weekly Reading Homework
With your child, please carry out a variety of the following tasks at least 5 times a week, recording in their reading log each time.
Practise recognising letter sounds using flashcards daily – this is essential practise to get your child reading.
Engage in 'Fred Talk Games'. These are games that support your child to orally blend sounds into words. For example, "Fred says, tap your h-ea-d... your head!" Please see the PDF document in the 'Read Write Inc. Phonics' section below for further 'Fred Talk Games' that you can play at home.
If your child is consistently recognising most of the single letter sounds from their flashcards, 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. For example, s – a –t, sat. They may need you to demonstrate 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 to tell a story. This develops their oracy comprehension and inference skills.
Based on your child’s most recent phonics assessment, the may also bring home a '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.
Homework tasks need to be recorded in your child's reading log at least 5 times a week so that we know that your child is practising their reading at home. Reading logs are checked every Friday to see how your child is getting on at home. Please make sure that you date and initial each time you record in your child's reading log to show that your child has read their lilac book/blending book/flash cards.
Please speak to any member of the Reception team if you have any questions.
Thank you for your continued support in helping your child learn to read.
The YR Team