Today we learnt the ‘S’ sound / phoneme

Below you will be able to see one of the children modelling how to say the sound correctly and the phrase for writing the sound. Just in case you can’t hear her, she is saying “Slither down the snake”.

Ask your child if they can show you anything beginning with the ‘s’ sound at home and if they can write the ‘s’ sound.

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We will post our next sound on the blog shortly!

Yesterday we learnt the ‘a’ sound / phoneme.

Below you will be able to see one of the children modelling how to say the sound correctly and the phrase for writing the sound. Just in case you can’t hear him, he is saying “Around the apple and down the leaf”.

Ask your child if they can show you anything beginning with the ‘a’ sound at home and if they can write the ‘a’ sound.

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We will post our next sound on the blog shortly!

Today we have introduced the children to their first phonic sound!

Below you will be able to see one of our children from last year modelling how to say the sound correctly and the phrase for writing the sound. Just in case you can’t hear her, she is saying “Maisy mountain, mountain”.

Ask your child if they can show you anything beginning with the ‘m’ sound at home and if they can write the ‘m’ sound.

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We will be introducing one sound everyday, so please make sure your child keeps up at home too, we learn fast here in reception.

We will post our next sound on the blog shortly!

Mrs Wren

Hopefully, you have spotted the home learning booklet that was in your child’s book bag on Friday.

The work will be linked to our Literacy Work, particularly Phonics.

Please bring your home learning book into school every Friday, so we can add the next set of learning to complete at home.

Any questions please see the Reception Team and we would be happy to help.

Thank you for your continued support.

We had another wonderful Monday getting to know our new children.

They settled in beautifully, and started to make friends instantly.

The children who had already started did a brilliant job of showing the new starters what to do and where to go, we are so proud of them all.

Here are a few photos of yesterday.                                     

Today we had a wonderful day, getting to know the first half of the reception children.

They were all amazing – settled very quickly and even made some new friends.

We would like to thank all the parents and carers – you have clearly prepared the children very well for starting school.

We would like to share some of the photographs from today.

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow, and of course those who start school next Monday.

Kind regards

The Reception Team

Hello and welcome to our Reception class blog!

We hope you have all had a lovely summer and are excited and ready for your child to start with us at Elm Park Primary. We cannot wait to get started!

We have had a lovely time so far being able to visit everybody at home. The reception team have been working hard to prepare all of our lovely provisions. Here are some photos of our classrooms and outside areas:

All we need now is to fill it with your wonderful children! We look forward to seeing you all over the next couple of weeks and if you have any questions for us please do not hesitate to ask!

We will endeavour to update our blog every week with what we have been learning in Reception as well as any class news and updates.

Reception team 🙂