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 25/04/2025 

We hope you all had a wonderful Easter holidays! It has been great to welcome the children back to school, lots of them seem very tired now though!

This week, we have begun our Jungle topic. The children have shared what they already know about Jungles, so we will build on this over the next two weeks. They have enjoyed learning some facts about different Jungle Animals. We will continue to create a class fact file of Jungle animals over the coming weeks. We also released our class butterflies yesterday. The children had a brilliant experience of seeing their life cycle from eggs to butterflies.

We have also been practising for our Class Assembly. Don’t forget to come and watch the assembly on Tuesday morning, straight after drop off.

Really Wild Animal Visit:

On Monday, we have our visit from Really Wild Learning. The children will be able to see and learn about lots of different animals. If you haven’t already paid, please contribute towards this experience on the School Gateway app.

Class Photos:

On Wednesday, we will be having our class photos.

Phonics:

The children have joined their new phonics groups and have been getting used to their new space, teacher and routines. It is brilliant to see their progress. Please remember to listen to your child read 5 times and week, and record this in their reading record. Thank you.

Have a brilliant weekend!

Mrs Horton and Miss Parker 

Dates for the diary:

Monday 28^th April – Visit from Really Wild Learning

Tuesday 29^th April – YR class assembly 9am

Wednesday 30^th April – Class photos

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