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 Hello, 

Firstly, I am so sorry for not keeping up with the blogs this term. It seems as though I have blinked and we are nearly at the end of term! We have had a wonderful term so far and are particularly looking forward to our trip this week. 

We have had a lovely few weeks, especially with the Coronation, the children  loved exploring this in our provision and they all blew me away with their performance in the hall. 

This term so far we have been consolidating our phonics sounds and practicing reading lots of different words with them in. It has been great to see children using their phonics knowledge within their writing. Please keep up the great work that you are doing with their reading at home, you can really see the impact it has when they read at home. We have also been consolidating our number bonds of 5 and 10 and it is great to see children recall these. 

Trip: 

  • children to wear school jumper and joggers/leggings and trainers/wellies
  • apply suncream before school
  • sunhat and raincoat please - not too thick please
  • lunch if not having one from Dolce 
  • water bottle - named

A link to the Little Wandle Parents areas of their website:
https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

A link to the documents that say how to say the sounds:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xZiGMg6uHcVR73fzrXOpv5R8XRsWVfiK

Reception parents - these are the Early Learning Goals that I measure the children against next term, if you wanted to have a look. They need to get all of these is Maths, Literacy, Physical Development, Personal Social Emotional Development and Communication and Language to get GLD. 



Nursery Parents: Please can I ask that you practice name writing with your child at home, it would be great if they could start in Reception being about to do this. 
The best way I find is that if you write it in a yellow pen, then put a dot where they need to start with their pencil then they are starting off with the correct letter formation. Please see below:


As ever, thank you for your support. 

If you have any questions, please ask :)

Take care, 

Miss Lewis 


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