Hello Reception,

To continue with supporting reading at home as best we can, school has recently invested in a new online reading system called ‘Bug Club’. Your child will be familiar with some of these resources already as we have Bug Club reading books we use in school and also use some of their online resources in our phonics sessions.

We are now able to offer out individual logins to Bug Club online for you to access at home. This will include a whole bank of online reading books that you can access at home! We are able to set books specifically for your child’s reading level, just as we would when we send real books home for you to read in the week! These books will be matched to the phonics that your child will be learning at school and also include fun activities or quizzes that will help develop your child’s understanding of what they have read.

We have stuck your child’s individual log in for their Bug Club membership in their reading diaries today so you can start using straight away! Attached is a letter with details and instructions of how to log on and start using the website. We will continue to send home a hard copy of a reading book each week as we really do value real life books and promote a love of reading! However, as we are limited at the moment in being able to exchange books as regularly as we would normally, these colourful, decodable books will help your child keep reading a minimum of 3x a week with you and ensure they stay on track.

We hope you will find these fun and exciting! Any questions, please do ask. Have fun reading together.

Thank you for your support.

The Reception Team.

Reception Bug Club Letter

A reminder that children must come to school dressed in forest school clothes and bring wellies and waterproofs in a separate bag on a Monday please.

PE kits can also be worn on Tuesday and Thursday.

Reading diaries are to brought into school on a Friday and will be returned with new spellings on a Monday.

Thank you for your support.

Good Morning Reception!

We are counting down to seeing you back in school next Monday! We can’t wait to see you all again and for everyone to see their friends.

We have planned some exciting things for you to do next week. You will get to see out very own dinosaur egg at last.  We are keeping our fingers crossed the sunshine stays so we can also get playing outside everyday.

A reminder that Reception have:
FOREST SCHOOL MONDAY (Please come dressed in your forest school clothes and bring wellies in a carrier bag)
PE TUESDAY AND THURSDAY  (Please come dressed in PE kits on those days)

Our Reception year group email will still be up and running for the moment for messages to the staff team.
We ask for Reading diaries to be brought into school on a Friday to be checked and will be sent back home on a Monday, so you can continue to  practise spellings and record reading entries in throughout the week. Please for the moment do not send in reading diaries daily, and use the Reception email for messages to staff instead.

Thank you everybody for your support. If you have any questions, then please ask.
The Reception Team.

We are excited to announce that on Thursday 4th March it will be ‘World Book Day’! We thought we would post information about this so that you can get prepared if you so wish to.

This year, World Book Day will be a little different as most of you are at home…
We have decided to have a whole school theme based on Alice in Wonderland: a timeless tale for all ages.
Young Alice falls down a rabbit hole, only to find a world where animals talk, a mad hatter enjoys a never-ending tea party and croquet is played like you’ve never seen it before!

Next Thursday we will be having lots of ‘World Book Day’ fun during our live lessons and for those children who are in school.

For those of you that love to dress up, we would like to invite you to dress up for both our live lesson and in school. There are many characters to choose from, from the story ‘Alice in Wonderland’ or you could create some of the props instead—a giant playing card or clock (perfect to practise telling the time!). If you have your own special outfits from other stories already at home which you would like to dress up in and share with us instead you can. We understand that utilising what we already have at home is very important too. Equally, if dressing up is not your thing, why not draw the costumes you love the most instead? At the end of our live lesson on Thursday there will be the opportunity for you to share your costumes with the other children working at home and possibly in school too. I’m sure a costume/prop parade is something that you will all enjoy.

As part of our Alice in Wonderland themed day you may also like to create your own ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’. Enjoy jam tarts and jammy dodgers—why not make your own? Here is a child friendly recipe for you to follow: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/valentines-day-jam-tarts

We will be posting more information about this day next week and the exciting activities we have planned for you but thought we would give you prior warning about dressing up and the tea party so you can get prepared if you wish to beforehand.

We hope you can enjoy a day filled with jam tarts, party games and lots of fun and laughter!

The Reception Team