Reception Friday Blog - 17th October

Date: 16th Oct 2025 @ 12:30pm

 

Dear Parents,

 

Welcome to our weekly Reception blog!

Well done to our award winners this week!

Phonics.

 The children have continued to enjoy the daily sessions and have been practising each new phoneme in their independent learning. Thankyou for sending in on Seesaw examples of the children practising their phonemes and graphemes at home  They have had the chance to practise forming the graphemes correctly. Please see the sheets for Week 5 in the files section below. We have also introduced tricky word 'I'. If you want to practise forming the graphemes using the rhymes for each one and playing games such as I spy to help consolidate this weeks learning. Any photos of this homework can be sent in via Seesaw.

Reading.

Please send into school the reading book and reading record book each day as we hear the children read aswell. We change the books twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays. Books will only be changed if the reading record has been written in. If you have any questions please ask.

Maths.

We have been consolidating our learning of the number 1 - 4 this week. 

Literacy.

 

This week we have continued our learning of The Enormous Turnip. We used our cutting skills to sequence the story and retold it in our own words. 

Colour Clash

We investigated how the colur of skittles change if you add water. 

Balance Bikes

Show and Tell.

Thankyou for sending in your child's favourite book. If you haven't managed to yet please send in ASAP. 

Next week we are going to share our favourite nursery rhymes. Could your child practise their favourite at home ready to share with their friends at school.

Safety in PE

We would like to remind all parents that for the safety of all children and following guidance from Chorley SSP, jewellery is not to be worn during PE. This includes earrings, bracelets and watches. All children will be asked to remove their jewellery at the start of every PE lesson. This will ensure their own safety during the lesson and the safety of others. If a child is unable to take out their own earrings, adults in school will not be able to do it for them. This will mean they will have to take another role in the lesson such as observing, coaching or officiating.

For this reason, if your child is not confident taking out earrings, please do not put them in on our PE days. This year, our PE lessons are on Tuesday and Friday, however we may also have extra lessons on other days throughout the year.

Thank you for your support in keeping our children safe.

 

End of Day Routine

• Children will only be allowed to go home with adults listed on the safeguarding form, unless school has been contacted to state otherwise. ​

• Children will be dismissed one at a time. Please let the adult on the gate know who you are picking up and they will then call the child.

• We kindly request that all children are dismissed prior to teachers/ Teaching Assistants being approached by parents. ​

• Should any child need to come back into the classroom, we will allow them back into the room after all of the children have been dismissed.​

 

Thankyou for your continued support and have a lovely weekend!

The Reception Team