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This week we will be continuing our work about ‘Celebrations’ and are beginning to look at our own Nativity. The children will be told the story of the Nativity and encouraged to learn the different songs that accompany our play. The children will have a go at remembering the lines to various songs and begin to practise the actions that accompany these too.

The children have been in their new phonics groups now for two weeks and are beginning week 3 this week. They will have brought home their reading diary and there will be some reading activities inside. If your child is not yet accessing the online reading scheme (Oxford Owl – check diaries as this will have been explained at the start of the diary) then please scan the QR codes in their reading diaries so the children can have a go at following the sound lessons for the phonemes they have been taught this week at home. Please sign the reading diary each time you do these activities with your child. Continue to go over the letters that have been sent home and make simple CVC words to practice word blending. Below are some blending videos to help with this.

http://schools.ruthmiskin.com/resources/vc-pathways/287385/GeDIAmxBU3aEDGw1

This week in maths we will be learning all about more than and fewer than. The children will have a go at comparing different quantities and using the stem sentence ‘_____has more than ____I know this because ____ is greater than ____’. The children will use dice to compare who has the greatest quantity. Perhaps you could talk about who has more at dinner times or when playing with your child at home too, who has more blocks? The children will then be learning all about the number 5. They will learn to count 5 objects, recognise 5 by subitising and know when they have 5 or not 5 by using die frames.

Miss Blowers is leaving to start her maternity leave on Friday 21st November. She has thoroughly enjoyed teaching your little ones this year and is very proud of how well they have all settled in and the progress they have already made. We welcome Mrs Beynon and Mrs Frost-Townsend as teachers into RKB and are sure the children will continue to make great progress and show our new staff what brilliant pupils they are.

Have a wonderful week,

the Reception Team

We would like to offer a huge welcome to you and your child for their Reception year. The children have all come into school so well and have have had lots of fun exploring the setting and finding out what there is to play and learn with.

Thank you for helping your child come in to school each day ready for the day ahead. Please remember to provide your child with a waterproof coat with a hood and a water bottle, only containing water (no juice please as new government guidelines indicate this helps lead to tooth decay). Please allow your child to come into the classroom with their coat and bag so that they can learn how to take them off and how to organise themselves and their belongings. This year the children will be working hard on independence and doing things for themselves – your help with this is extremely welcomed.

Thank you to those parents who have sent in wellington boots for their child. We ask that all children please have a named pair of wellington boots in school so that they may continue to play in the wet weather. Send these in to school and place them outside your child’s classroom door.

The children have coped very well in the canteen this week and have been independently choosing their lunch. You can find the school dinner menus on the school website. Please go through this with your child so they can choose something they are likely to eat. Some of the children are getting a little upset or are not eating very much as they do not know what to choose. If you wish for your child to change to packed lunches then you must notify the school office preferably a week in advance so that adaptions can be made to the amount of food ordered.

Click to access Autumn-Spring-Menu-2024-2025.pdf

This week we are looking at the Author David McKee for our Author study with a focus on Elmer. The children will be involved in hearing the story, sequencing the story, making, colouring and collaging different Elmer’s as well as acting like an elephant and taking part in an Elephant parade. Please send in a clean empty plastic milk bottle so your child can make their own model Elmer to add to our class parade of elephants.

On Friday, your child should have come home with the gift of a story book. This is their book to keep and has a special message inside for them. At Coundon we foster a love of reading and hope that your child adds this book to their home library and enjoys reading it with you.

If you have any problems or need to speak to a member of staff then please speak to us at the start or end of the day or email us on

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Have a lovely week

The Reception Team