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 22/05/2026

This week, we continued our farming topic. Building from our learning last week, we have been thinking about where our food comes from. We learnt that farms produce either crops or livestock in order to provide food to sell in the shop.

After half term, we will begin our castles topic.

Sports Day:

The EYFS and KS1 Sports Day is on Monday 15^th June. The children will complete a circuit of different activities, followed by a series of races.

On Sports Day, the children need to come to school wearing a t-shirt of their House Team Colour. This is the same colour as their colour teams in class (where they put their book bags and water bottles). It is also the same colour as their older siblings in school if they have any. Your child should be able to tell you which colour team they are in. You are welcome to clarify this with us if necessary.

Once you have dropped your child off, please make your way around to the school field to watch.

Library Visit:

On Monday 1^st June, we will be going on a trip to the library. Please ensure that your child’s teacher has their library card and £1.50 for an ice cream. See the Library Trip letter for information about early pick-up from Bude Light at the end of the trip.

Reception Late Night:

On Friday 5^th June, we will be putting on our Reception Late Night, where the children stay at school until 5:30pm. We will complete a circuit of activities using areas of the school that the children do not usually use. We will then have a picnic tea with food provided from home. A letter with more information has been sent to you.

We would love for all of the children to attend. Your child will not be able to attend if consent has not been provided on the School Gateway app.

Phonics:

Last week, the children completed their phonics assessments ready to inform the new groupings after half term.

We are so proud of the children’s reading this year and really want to keep up momentum as we enter the final half term of the year. Please remember to continue listening to your child read 5 times and week, and record this in their reading record. Where possible, continuing to read during the half term will really support them to retain their learning. Thank you.

Maths:

This week, we worked together as a team to order digits of numbers 1 to 10 into a number track. We then used our number track to play games with dice and counters. The special die we used only had the numbers 1 and 2 on it. We used this information to predict the different outcomes of where we might land and work out who might win the game!

As a home challenge, see if you can play any board games throughout the half term, encouraging your child to independently subitise the dots on the die and count on accurately from the space they started on. We would love to see any photos on Tapestry!

Have a wonderful half term!

Mrs Horton and Miss Parker 

Dates for the diary:

Friday 22^nd May – Last day before half term

25^th-29^th May – Half Term

Monday 1^st June – First day back after half term

Monday 1^st June – Library Visit

Friday 5^th June – Reception Late Night

Monday 15^th June – EYFS/KS1 Sports Day (AM)

Friday 19^th June – Summer fayre

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