Good afternoon,

Today, your child will bring home a reading book in a reading folder. Please listen to your child read at least 3-5 times a week (reading the book several times if possible to increase fluency). Each time your child’s reads at home, please put a comment in the Home/School link book and we will reward them with a sticker on their reading bookmark. In addition to this, from week 3, children will also bring home a blank Floppy’s phonics sheet (in a phonics folder) on a Monday and a Wednesday. This sheet will contain phonemes and words and will have cumulative sentences at the bottom that we are focusing on in school (and have completed in our school phonics book). Please can you practise reading a selection of these words and sentences on the sheet with your child, putting a tick above the words that they are able to read.  Please also practise writing some of words on the back of the sheet. Reading at home 3-5 times a week and the completion of phonics sheets at home will be our homework expectation throughout Year 1.

You can leave messages in the Home School Reading Link Book but if it is urgent, please talk to an adult on the door in the morning or send in an email via the office for the attention of your child’s teacher. Non urgent messages can also be sent into school via the Year 1 email address which can be found on the Year 1 page in the ‘Classrooms’ section of the website.

If you have any questions at all about this or anything else, please speak to a member of the year 1 team.

Thank you

Mrs Standish and Miss Hellyar-Jones.