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It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas...

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It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas...

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As we move into next week and December, school is starting to look beautifully decorated and ready for Christmas! The children are excited to show you their Christmas play and we can't wait to see their costumes!

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To support your child's Maths learning this week, use the number formation rhymes above to help your child begin to write numbers from 0 to 5.

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Next week, we will be continuing to read the book called 'The Christmas Pine'. The children will be enjoying seeing school change into a Christmas themed place to learn. Look out for an elf workshop and snowflake making next week!

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Formation of Letters - Little Wandle Rhymes

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Formation of Letters - Little Wandle Rhymes

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These are the rhymes that we use to teach the children how to write each letter. Please use them with your child at home too.

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In Maths, the children will be exploring number 5. They will be using their fingers to explore what 5 is composed of e.g. 1 and 4 make 5, 2 and 3 make 5 and 0 and 5 make 5. The children will also be beginning to recognise numerals from 0 to 5. The children will be starting to learn how to write each numeral using rhymes to help with their formation.

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Rehearsals for the Christmas show begin!

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Rehearsals for the Christmas show begin!

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Last week in Reception, the children began their rehearsals for the Reception Christmas show called 'Once Upon A Christmas Eve'. The children have been learning the words to the songs and practising their lines. We can't wait to see their costumes next week too!

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Over the next 2 weeks at school, we will be reading a book called 'The Christmas Pine'. This is a beautiful picture book that allows children to enjoy the excitement and magic of Christmas. This book marks the start of our Christmas preparations and celebrations at school in Reception.

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Next week in Phonics, the children will be reviewing all the sounds that they have learnt so far in Phase 2. They will be reading lots of words with these sounds in and writing CVC words too.

Above are all the sounds that we have learnt so far in Reception. Please practise writing these sounds with your child at home too.

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Making finger puppets from traditional fairy tales!

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Making finger puppets from traditional fairy tales!

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Writing sounds and CVC words during Explore Time!

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This week in Reception, the children have enjoyed creating their own finger puppet shows in our Reception theatre. The children have also enjoyed building 'Boris the Robot' out of junk modelling. Boris is a character from our PSED programme, who helps the children learn about kindness and their feelings.

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Next week, the children will be continuing to read and enjoy the book called ‘Once Upon a Time’. The children will be able to create face masks of different fairytale characters and role play the different stories that they can spot in the book. Enjoy readying these traditional tales with your children at home too.

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Next week in Phonics, the children will be continuing their reading journey! They will be learning 4 new sounds. These sounds are ‘z, 'zz', 'qu' and 'ch'. You can help your child at home by finding objects and items around your home beginning with these sounds.

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Next week in Maths, the children will be using their recent learning about 'part-part-wholes' and applying it further. They will be thinking about number 3, number 4 and number 5 and what each of these numbers are made of e.g. 5 is made of 3 and 2, 4 is made of 2 and 2 and 3 is made of 2 and 1 etc...

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Building a volcano out of the outdoor bricks!

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Building a volcano out of the outdoor bricks!

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Mark making on our new outdoor easel with chalk!

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Mark making on our new outdoor easel with chalk!

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This week in Reception, the children have been learning some bonfire & firework songs and poems. They have been busy creating their own fireworks pictures during Explore time and using their voices to make the sounds that fireworks make. The children have been using different coloured paints to bring their fireworks to life. The children have also been busy writing about fireworks too with lots of children using their sounds in their writing now too! Keep up the super work Reception!

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Next week, the children will be enjoying a book called ‘Once Upon a Time’. This story has a simple storyline using simple language and vocabulary but the illustrations tell a different story with lots of different traditional fairytale characters making an appearance. This book provides lots of opportunities for talk, curiosity and imagination and the children will be looking out for ‘Humpty Dumpty’, ‘Little Riding Hood’, ‘The 3 Little Pigs’ and many others in this book! Enjoy readying these traditional tales with your children at home too.

The children will creating their fairytale character puppets during Explore Time and be putting on shows in the Reception theatre.

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Next week in Phonics, the children will be continuing their reading journey! They will be learning 4 new sounds. These sounds are ‘v, 'w', 'x' and 'y'. You can help your child at home by finding objects and items around your home beginning with these sounds.

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Next week in Maths, the children will be learning about how numbers are made up of parts of other numbers e.g. 4 is made of 2 and 2 and 5 is made of 3 and 2 etc… They children will be exploring how all parts make a whole when they are put together. They may even find parts of Mrs Chesney and Miss Roth around the classroom that needs putting back together so we are whole again!

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This week in Reception, the children met up with their new Year 2 buddy. It was such a lovely afternoon and the children were brilliant. This is an opportunity for the Reception children to build a friendship with an older child at Emscote, who they can go to/play with/talk to at school. We will aim for the children to meet with their buddy each term to do an activity together. Please help us to encourage your child to talk to their buddy at lunchtimes to check-in with them.

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This is a recording of how to say all the sounds that we are/will be learning in Reception this year. Please listen to it and use it to help your child practise their sounds.

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This is a recording of how to sound out and blend to help your child learn to read. Please listen to it and use it to help your child develop their reading.

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Making repeated patterns! Great teamwork!

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Making repeated patterns! Great teamwork!

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This week in Reception, we have continued the colourful theme from Diwali into our learning. We have been reading 'The Colour Monster' and linking his different feelings & emotions to the Zones of Regulation. The children have drawn and painted some wonderful monsters of their own too!

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After half term, the children will be enjoying poetry during their Literacy sessions. They will be reading different poems all about bonfire night and fireworks. They will be able to take their learning further by creating firework pictures using paint & chalk as well as writing about different fireworks too!

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After half term in Maths, the children will be continuing to use the vocabulary ‘more than’ and ‘fewer than’ as well as 'equal to'. The children will be looking at comparing different amounts and numbers and deciding which is more than the other amount, which is fewer than than the other amount or whether the amounts are equal to each other.

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After half term in Phonics, the children will be continuing their reading journey! They will be learning 4 new sounds. These sounds are ‘ff, 'll', 'ss' and 'j'. You can help your child at home by finding objects and items around your home beginning with these sounds.

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Emscote Infant School Half Term Reading Challenge Event!

We are in the process of updating our library in school. To coincide with this and to encourage young readers, we have a half term competition to win prizes!

All you need to do is to go down to your local library – you can take part in one of their events or borrow a book. It’s that easy and will cost you nothing!

On Monday 27th October at 10.30-11.30 Warwick Library are having a Green Halloween Event!  Also, every Saturday the library has a Lego Club from 10-12 for 4-11 years olds.

Please take a photo of you at the library with the subject line ‘Reading Challenge’ and send it to:

admin2332@we-learn.com

We look forward to seeing your photos!

Click this link for more information about events at your local library.

https://library.warwickshire.gov.uk/library-events

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This week in Reception the children have been busy making diva lamps during Wonderful Wellies. The children have been thinking about preparing for Diwali (festival of light), which they will learn more about during assembly next week. The children will be bringing them home next week so look out for them in bookbags!

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Next week in Phonics, the children will be recapping the sounds that they have learnt so far. They are:

s

a

t

p

i

n

m

d

g

o

c

k

ck

e

u

r

h

b

f

l

Please practise these sounds at home with your child too.

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Next week in Maths, the children will be counting beyond 20! You can practise counting with your child at home too - see how high up can they count!

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Next week, we will be reading and enjoying 'The Colour Monster' book. The children will be meeting each colour monster and be thinking about what feeling each one represents. The children will be linking the colour monsters to the Zones of Regulation in PSED too. During Explore Time, the children will be able to paint the colour monsters, draw their own colour monster and have a go at writing different feeling using their Phonics. We can't wait to see what they create!

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Click on this link and it will take you to the Little Wandle Parents Area of the website. You can listen to the sounds on here so you can help your child with their Phonics and Reading learning!

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The resources on this page will help you support your child with saying their sounds and writing their letters. There are also some useful videos so you can see how they are taught at school and feel…

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This is a copy of the Phonics & Reading presentation from the meeting on Monday 13th October.

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Reading Meeting Presentation to parents Online Version

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This is a copy of the Time 2 Talk presentation from the meeting on Monday 6th October.

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This is a copy of the Maths presentation from the meeting on Monday 13th October.

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Next week in Maths, the children will be using the vocabulary ‘more than’ and ‘fewer than’. The children will be looking at comparing different amounts and numbers and deciding which is more than the other amount and which is fewer than than the other amount.

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This week in Reception, the children have been taking their Story Dough learning outside. Our outdoor Wendy house has become a Story Dough character clay building adventure! The children have loved being imaginative and creative with the clay!

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Next week in Phonics, the children will be continuing their reading journey! They will be learning 4 new sounds. These sounds are ‘h’, 'b', 'f' and 'l'. You can help your child at home by finding objects and items around your home beginning with these sounds.

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Next week on Tuesday, we have our Harvest assembly at Church at 9am. Mother Sharon will talk to the children about Harvest time. Parents are all invited. We ask that children please bring a donation from the list attached here. These are donations for Warwick District Foodbank. Children will carry their item to Church. Thank you.

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This week in Reception, we have been enjoying the lovely Autumnal sunshine outside as much as possible. The children have been creating leaf rubbings and making magic wands out of Autumnal materials e.g. leaves. The children have also been drawing a self portrait of themselves for our wonderful display. The children are showing really good pencil/pen control already - well done Reception!

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Next week in Maths, the children will be learning about number 4 with the help of the Numberblocks! They will be learning that number 4 is made up of 1 and another 1 and another 1 and another 1 makes 4!

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The seasons are changing and we are very much seeing lots of Autumnal colours outside. For the next 2 weeks, we are going to be reading and enjoying the book 'Hello Autumn'. This story explores the joys of Autumn and the children will be bringing the story to life during their 'Wonderful Wellies' sessions over the next few weeks. If you go out on any Autumnal walks with your children and collect any conkers, leaves or sticks, fell free to send them into school as we love creating Autumnal pictures with them.

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Next week in Phonics, the children will be continuing their reading journey! They will be learning 4 new sounds. These sounds are ‘ck', 'e', 'u' and 'r'. You can help your child at home by finding objects and items around your home beginning with these sounds.

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More time enjoying reading this book for us next week! The children will be retelling this story ''In Every House, On Every Street' through pictures and talk.

The children will be drawing a self portrait of themselves at the Creation Station this week too! We can't wait to see their drawings :)

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This week in Maths, the children will be using the Numberblocks to help them learn that 1 and another 1 makes 2 and that 1 and another 1 and another 1 makes 3! The children will be making groups of 3 objects and understanding that the objects don't have to be the same size to be a group of 3. We will also be singing the song '1, 2, 3, 4, 5, once I caught a fish alive,' to help us practise our counting!

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Another wonderful week in Reception! This week, the children have been continuing their start to school with a VERY exciting Wonderful Wellies session! The children got to explore in the 'Wild Area', create mud paintings and went on a Autumnal walk to explore how the seasons are changing. The children were all in their wellies and enjoyed the wet and muddy field!

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Next week in Phonics, the children will be continuing their reading journey! They will be learning 4 new sounds. These sounds are ‘g’, 'o', 'c' and 'k'. You can help your child at home by finding objects and items around your home beginning with these sounds.

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Yesterday, your child will have come home with a library book from school. This is their library book to read at home with you for the whole week until next Monday.

Every Monday, your child needs to bring their library book back into school, in their bookbag, so they can change it for a new library book during our afternoon library session.

Books can only be changed on a MONDAY.

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Do you need some extra advice and support?

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Do you need some extra advice and support?

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If you need any support with new behaviours at home, toileting, mental health/wellbeing, SEN & much much more... Head over the below website for lots of information and support. There are lots of videos, resources and websites for you to use.

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Connect for Health - Warwickshire school nursing service | Compass

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The Warwickshire school nursing service supports children, young people and their families with a wide range of health issues across the county. Contact us for free, confidential advice today.

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This week in Maths, the children will be focusing on counting and ensuring they are 'counting carefully'. They will be thinking about the ordinality of numbers, which is where we think about the position of a number in a sequence or order e.g. 2 comes after 1. The children will also be learning that the last number in a group of objects that we count, is also the total number of objects in that group altogether. This is called 'cardinality'.

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Wow! What a super first week! The children in Reception have completed their first full-time week at school! The children have settled in so well and are getting really familiar with the routines of a school day.

The children have enjoyed some new experiences this week. They have enjoyed Wonderful Wellies, Music, Maths, Phonics and PE sessions as well as having lots of time to make new friends and play during our Explore Time.

We can’t wait to have lots of fun next week too!

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This week and next week, we are reading the book 'A Wild Walk to School'. This story is all about the adventures that a family get up to on their way to school.

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Next week in Phonics, the children will be starting their reading journey! They will be learning their first 4 sounds. These sounds are 's', 'a', 't' and 'p'. You can help your child at home by finding objects and items around your home beginning with these sounds.

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Week beginning Monday 1st December is Week 1 Menu.

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Week beginning Monday 1st December is Week 1 Menu.

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Next week in Maths, the children will be learning to subitise. The children will be looking at groups of objects 1, 2 and 3 and without counting them, be saying whether they can see 1, 2 or 3 objects. Subitising is a very important skill that we will be practising lots in Reception.

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This week in Phonics, the children will be focusing on Phase 1 Phonics. This phase helps the children to practise their listening skills. The children are going to be listening to different types of music and describing what they can hear.

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This week in Maths, the children have been exploring their new classrooms and enjoying finding out what lives in the Maths Area in both Cherry and Willow classrooms. They found counters, Numicon, cubes, number cards and lots lots more!

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Next week in Phonics, the children will be continuing their reading journey! They will be learning 4 new sounds. These sounds are ‘i', 'n', 'm' and 'd'. You can help your child at home by finding objects and items around your home beginning with these sounds.

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This week and next week, we are reading the book 'In Every House, On Every Street'. The children will be retelling the story through pictures and talk.

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Welcome to our Reception PADLET for Cherry and Willow Class.

You will find lots of important information on here about your child's school life!

Please keep checking back for updates.

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Would you like to join us on a school trip?

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Would you like to join us on a school trip?

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If so, please let the school office know and they can arrange for you to have a DBS check so you are able to join us on our Reception trip adventures!

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Don't forget to login into your child's Seesaw profile for photos and other EYFS updates!

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Tuesday 2nd December - Reception Christmas Show Dress Rehearsal @ 10am - NO PARENTS

Wednesday 3rd December - Reception Christmas Show @ 10am and 2pm - PARENTS WELCOME

Monday 8th December - Whole School Trip to Warwick Arts Centre - The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Tuesday 9th December - Christmas Church Service @ 9am - PARENTS WELCOME

Thursday 11th December - Reception Craft Day @ 9.30am-10.30am and 1.30pm-2.30pm

Monday 15th December - Book Look @ 3.10pm in classrooms

Wednesday 17th December - Christmas Lunch & Christmas Jumper Day

Friday 19th December - Finish for Christmas Holidays @ 3.10pm

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Spotting 'more than' and 'fewer than' amounts.

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Spotting 'more than' and 'fewer than' amounts.

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Cherry Class have P.E. on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Willow Class have P.E. on Mondays and Tuesdays.

The children need to wear trainers that they can take on and off by themselves and be wearing socks not tights.

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Children are not allowed to bring in toys from home. We have lots of toys at school and we don’t want your child to be upset if their own toys get lost at school.

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Don’t forget to login into ‘Seesaw’ so you can see some of the things that the children are getting up to at school.

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Each week, we have a ‘Show & Tell’ session. If your child would like to take part (they don’t have to), please can they bring their ‘Show & Tell’ in on a Monday for both classes.

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Please try to hear your child read every day and note down this reading on the green bookmark in their book. Please make sure these packets are in your child’s bookbag every day, ready to read with us at any time.

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Mathletics - Available for Reception from Jan 2026

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Mathletics - Available for Reception from Jan 2026

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Don't forget, your children can do extra Maths on Mathletics!

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Mathletics United Kingdom | Empowering Maths Learning Online

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Mathletics is the award-winning online maths programme to help students learn maths. Engaging, fun, and aligned to the curricula across the UK.

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In Reception, we focus on...

The Prime Areas:

-Communication & Language

-Personal, Social and Emotional Development

-Physical Development

The Specific Areas:

-Literacy

-Maths

-Understanding the World

-Expresssive Arts

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Encourage your child to be responsible for gathering their belongings in the morning and putting on their coats independently, to help them do so in school.

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Encourage your child to become independent in using a knife and fork effectively.

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Talk with your child about their day at school.

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Share a book and read with your child every night.

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Letters and any crafts will be put in your child’s bookbags so please check these each night. If you have any letters or slips to return to school/get to us then please do not put these in the bookbag, please give them directly to Mrs Nicol on the gate in the mornings.

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All children need to bring a pair of Wellies and a named bag with spare clothes in to leave in school.

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From your child's 5th birthday, you will need to pay for them to have milk at school. Sign up on the 'Cool Milk' website.

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Discover Cool Milk, the UK’s leading school milk supplier, providing fresh and nutritious milk to schools and early years groups. Learn about our services and commitment to quality.

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Children must have a named water bottle in school every day.

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Please encourage your child’s independence by encouraging them to walk down from the top gate by themselves in the mornings.

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Please read with your child at home as much as you can and at least 4 times a week.

Sign your child’s reading bookmark and keep it in their bag.

Staff will collect the completed bookmarks in on a Monday and enter them into the Reading Champion ballot box!

Please send reading books to school in bags each day.

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We have a special Birthday tradition at Emscote! The children are allowed to wear their own clothes to school on their birthday. It means that everyone can wish them a Happy Birthday! If your child’s birthday is at the weekend or during a holiday then they can wear their own clothes on the nearest Monday/Friday.