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 26/06/2026

This week we have continued our Pirates topic. Over the last two weeks, we have been receiving daily letters from ‘Captain Blackbeard’. Captain Blackbeard invited the children to join his pirate crew, however each day they needed to complete a task as their pirate training. The children have learnt how to read treasure maps, identified parts of a ship, learnt some pirate lingo and have created wanted posters to help catch a rival pirate. Today, our topic culminated in a treasure hunt in the school grounds.

Next week we will be moving onto our final topic of Seasides.

The children have been absolute super stars in the heat this week. They have adapted really well. Fingers crossed things cool down a bit now!

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 to 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.

Beach Trip:

We will be going to the beach on Wednesday 15^th July.

Please make sure you have responded on the gateway app with the following information:

• Confirming you will collect your children from Crooklets Carpark at 2:45pm
• If you child will have a home or school packed lunch
• If you can help to walk to the beach in the morning
• If you are available to help all day

Currently, we have had responses from less than half of the cohort and are still in need of volunteers to walk to the beach in the morning and volunteers to help for the whole day.

Year 3 are going to Summerleaze beach on the same day. If you also have a child in Year 3, please collect them first from Summerleaze carpark at 2:45pm. Mrs Horton will wait with your Year R child at Crooklets carpark to be collected afterwards.

Phonics:

Next week the children will have their final phonics assessments. These assessments will inform the which group the children will start in in September.

Ready, Steady School sessions:

During the afternoons of Friday 3^rd July, Tuesday 7^th July and Wednesday 8^th July, we are being visited by next year’s Reception cohort. It seems like yesterday that we were welcoming you! During these visits, the current Reception children will spend the afternoons in the Forest. Please make sure they come to school prepared to be outside whatever the weather on these days. Thank you!

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Horton and Miss Parker 

Dates for the diary:

Friday 26^th June – Bike Track session

Thursday 2^nd July – Forest School Day

Thursday 9^th and Friday 10^th July – Transition Days

Wednesday 15^th July – Beach Trip

Friday 17^th July – Last Day of the School Year

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