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Welcome to the Reception Blog!

Well..thats it..it's nearly time for BIG school!!! Woo Hoo!! I hope you've all had a great holiday and that your children are looking forward to starting full time!! Just a few quick reminders: Arrangments for the first week back... Remember all children are doing their normal nursery session that week. On their FIRST day take your child to nursery and we will collect them from there - after that you can drop off and collect from the Reception cloakroom doors.

Dinner Arrangements for Wednesday 8th September

Children who noramlly attend nusery for full days either at the beginning or the end of the week - will not be affected by these arrangements and will be collected and dropped off at the normal time.

Morning children will stay for dinner – please collect at 12:15pm

Afternoon children will come in early for dinner – please arrive at 12:00pm

Hope thats clear - if not please don't hesitate to ask - either leave a comment or you can email me on fosterrl04@leedslearning.net

Anyway thats all for now....will blog again soon!

Thanks
Mrs Foster

quick update!

Sorry for lack of blogging recently.... but just thought I would give you a quick update as to where we are with phonics. We have just completed all of the phase 2 phonemes and your child should by now have their 'sound book' so you can practice them at home. We will continue revising the sounds and practicing blending and segementing up until christmas - so that we are ready to start phase 3 in the new year!!!! As soon as we are back after christmas we will arrange another phonics meeting to keep you all up to speed.

A few dates for your dairy:-

27th Noevember (this Friday!!) is a training day - so you children will not be in school.
Tuesday 15th December at 2:30pm will be our Christmas Concert - you will be receiveing a letter this week about costumes etc!
Wednesday 16th December pm will be our christmas party.
Friday 18th December - we break up for Christmas!!

Thanks for takng time to check the blog your comments are always welcome!

Thank you

Mrs Foster and Mrs Ashby

Brain and Phonics!!

Thanks to everybody who came this afternoon for our brain activities - we know that the children love it when you come in - so thank you for giving up your time!!

In phonics this week we have done the letters i-n-m-d and recapped the tricky word 'the'. We have also been practising blending and segmenting the High Frequency Words (HFW) in-is-it-at. The children are really good at saying the sounds and names of letters - we now need to do lots of practice at writing them!!

Thanks

Mrs Foster and Mrs Ashby

Brain Week!!

Just in case you missed your invite - the children would like to invite you into school on Thursday 15th Oct at 1pm to come and join us for some brain activites. You are welcome to stay until hometime - but if you just want to pop in for an hour or so that is fine too.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Phonics!!!!

Just a quick update......

We have started phonics this week as we said at the meeting - by the end of the week we will have learnt s-a-t-p and the tricky word 'the'. We have also mentioned the names of these letters so you can use those at home to.

We still have technical probs with the colour printer - but I haven't forgotten about the Jolly Phonics handout!

Thanks
Mrs Foster and Mrs Ashby

Curriculum Evening

Just wanted to say a big thank you to all that attended the curriculum evening tonight - it was great to see so many of you there!! I know there was a lot to take in, but I do hope you found the evening useful? Please post your comments and let us know!!

Our next curriculum evening will be Wednesday 2nd December - 5:30pm - 7pm we really hope that you will be able to come!

Don't forget the Brain Awareness meeting next week (8th October) - that will be a really good night and very informative - not to be missed!

If you were not at the meeting tonight - please see either me or Mrs Ashby and we would happy to give you the reading handout!!

We will let you all have the jolly phonics pictures as soon as we can print them out!!

Thanks again for coming tonight - it really makes it worth while for us when so many of you come! :)

Mrs Foster and Mrs Ashby