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Author: Mrs Flynn
Light and dark!
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Reading: It’s so important!
We hope that you’re enjoying reading your child’s library book with them. We call this a ‘love of reading’ book – to do just that, encourage a love of reading for your child! Reading to and with your child can have a huge positive impact on your child’s education.
This research is a powerful message of the impact you can have when reading to/with your child:
At school, your child reads a physical book four times a week – with a focus on teaching phonics skills. This is then sent home as an eBook. The purpose of the eBook at home is to celebrate your child’s success (in phonics skills). Your child should be able to read most of this book confidently and really feel like a reader.
We’ve chosen to use eBooks at home for many benefits. Allocating eBooks frees up about two hours of teacher or TA time changing books – now spent teaching reading!
Here’s some information on how to access eBooks but if you’re having any problems please speak to your child’s class teacher.
Happy reading!
Phonics stay and learn
It was great to see so many of you at our first Stay and Learn this week. We hope you enjoyed watching your child take part in some fantastic phonics learning! We’d love to hear your feedback.
There are 5 more Stay and Learns this year – find the dates here.
For those of you who were unable to attend, please find attached the PowerPoint shared at the meeting.
Best start in life
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has written a letter to parents with a focus on ensuring children have the best start in life. It signposts parents to the best start in life website – there’s information on Best Start Family Hubs and support with your child’s early health and learning.
Welcome to Reception meeting
It was great to see so many of you at the ‘Welcome to Reception’ meeting this week. For those of you who were unable to attend, please find attached the PowerPoint shared at the meeting.
Welcome to Reception
A reminder that our ‘Welcome to Reception’ meeting is on Wednesday 10 September, 2025 at 6pm. This is held at school.
Following our first welcome session, this is an opportunity to find out some basic ‘need to knows’ about life in Reception.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Reception Baseline Assessment
Over the next six weeks, your child will be taking part in the Reception Baseline Assessment (sometimes called the RBA). It’s a short task-based assessment of your child’s early literacy, communication and maths skills. This year, it’s slightly different as your child will use an iPad to complete the questions. (It’s worth noting it’s not an assessment on how well your child can use an iPad.)
The data is collected by the Department for Education and used when your child is in Year 6, to measure the progress of the year group – not individual children. There’s no pass mark or score.
In school, we don’t use this assessment or even have access to the data. Instead, we do our own teacher assessments as we get to know where your child is at in their learning. Our focus this half term is to make sure your child settles into school life well – it’s likely your child won’t even realise they’re doing an assessment.
Packed Lunches
Does your child have a packed lunch at school? If so, please download our Guide to Healthy Packed Lunches.
Did you know that popcorn is a choking hazard for children under 5? Lot’s of people don’t! The Food Standards Agency. has published the following advice on how to prepare food safely for your young child.