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To work in partnership with families, we’re sharing simple guidance on healthy lunchboxes and foods that are safer for our youngest pupils. Please open the above document to see all pages.

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Please make sure your child is wearing socks and not tights on PE days. Thank you.

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Please practise reading these tricky words with your child. It is important that your child can read and write these words. Tricky words cannot be sounded out using Phonics, your child just needs to know them.

They are:

I

the

into

no

to

and

as

is

of

he

she

me

we

be

has

his

her

full

pull

push

put

go

they

was

you

my

by

all

are

sure

pure

said

so

have

like

some

come

love

do

were

here

little

says

there

when

what

one

out

today

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.