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Information
for Parents and Guardians
Uniform
Children are encouraged to wear school uniform at all times and can be purchased from the school supplier – order forms are available from the office.
Lunch
Your child will either be having school dinners or packed lunch from home. Please see the office if you are having dinners to set up your parent account to choose a meal option and pay online. Please label lunch boxes and drinks.
Snack
Please bring in £1 every Monday and your child will be provided with a snack daily for the week. Reception pupils prepare the snack themselves at the snack station where they are involved in all aspects of preparation, presentation and doing the dishes afterwards🤩
Children are also welcome to bring in a labelled water bottle of water.
Milk
Your child will be entitled to a free carton of milk every day.
P.E and Forest Schools
P.E. Will be every Monday and Forest Schools will be every Tuesday . Please bring in a pair of labelled wellies and a suitable coat for your child. Please bring appropriate clothes for PE (e.g. leggings/ joggers/ t shirt).
Please make sure your child wears appropriate footwear that they can take off and put them back on again😊
Phonics - Read, Write Inc.
The children learn their letter sounds through the Read, Write Inc scheme. Information sheets to support this will be sent home. Please help your child to learn their letter sounds at home as well as in school and encourage them to identify objects beginning with the sounds, e.g. s – snake, sausage.
Reading books will be sent home daily ~ please return them to school every day.
Writing
Children will be encouraged to hold and use pencils and other writing implements correctly. They will start by exploring a variety of writing implements and strengthening their fingers and hand muscles through lots of games and activities.
Then, when we are ready, we will move onto forming letters.
Please help your child learn to practise with writing their name correctly.
Number
Your child will start to learn to count, recognise, write and order numbers with lots of practical games and activities. Please encourage your child to count objects at home and learn to recognise and write their numbers (1-10). We are using a mastery approach towards number through the White Rose Maths scheme. This means that we will begin the term by focusing on smaller numbers (1-5) in great depth for e.g. investigating one more/ less, number bonds etc. We will also be exploring shapes, measures, money, patterns, time etc.