Reading

• We encourage you to read with your children at home at least 5 times a week to foster a love of reading within your child. We will be sending home 2 books a week to engage with. These will be the Read Write Inc phonics books and the Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds books. 
• Once your child is allocated their reading books, they will be changed throughout the day on a Friday. This allows children to read at least 5 out of 7 days a week at home.
• Please remember to write in your child's reading journal every time they have read at home.
• Children will have the opportunity to visit the library weekly.
• Please also ensure that you keep the reading books in school book bags as we may want to record our reading with them in their reading journals too!

PE

• Badgers Class have PE every Monday morning.
• Please ensure all your child's PE kit is labelled.
• Children will come into school wearing their PE kits on the Monday Morning and will stay in these all day.

Homework

• Although children are not given formal homework at this stage in Year 1, we encourage children to access the Reading Eggs app at home.
• Children will be given certificates regularly for their progress.
• Children will receive 4 spellings each week to practise at home. One of which will be a repeat from the previous week. A short test will take place following week on a Tuesday.

Forest School

• Please send your child to school dressed in appropriate clothing for the weather. 
• Children should have wet weather suits and welly boots for these sessions to ensure that they are covered and safe.
• Children are split into either Group 1 or Group 2, for Badgers class, this will determine whether they will attend forest school on a Wednesday or a Thursday. 
• Children will attend Forest School bi-weekly.