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2025-26

Croeso i'r Derbyn/ Blwyddyn Un! Welcome to Reception/ Year 1! 

Staff in Reception/ Year 1

Mrs A Davies (Mon, Tues, Wed) & Mrs R Smith (Thurs, Fri)

Miss Kate, Mrs S Beers, Miss Jess

We would like to extend to you and your child, our warmest welcome into our Reception/Year 1 classroom.  We have a wide variety of topics this year, and have a range of experiences planned for the children with lots of fun and laughter.

Our Autumn Topic

Our 'Castle' topic for this term will be 'Turrets and Tiaras'

PE Day: Monday

Children will need to wear a PE kit into school on the relevant day – shorts/tracksuit bottoms/leggings and a t-shirt.  Sometimes we will have P.E outside, so it would be advisable for children to wear trainers too.

Forest Friday

Children will take part in a whole range of lessons every Friday in our amazing nature reserve within the school grounds.  We ask that pupils wear appropriate, comfortable clothing suitable for weather conditions. 

If you wish to leave your child's wellies and waterproofs on their peg, please can you make sure they are in a clearly labelled bag.  Pupils will also need a waterproof coat, and in the colder months we would advise you to put in some extra layers, and send in a warm hat.

We will aim to be out every session, rain or shine!

Here are the Forest Friday dates for the first term:  

Friday 12th  September

Friday 19th  September

Friday 26th  September

Friday 3rd October

Friday 10th October

Friday 17th October

Friday 24th October

Friday 7th November

Friday 14th November

Friday 21st November

Friday 28th November

Friday 5th December

Reading & Homework in Reception

At Casllwchwr, we do many forms of reading:

• Guided reading in groups 
• Shared (paired ,group and whole class)
• Individual (Reading with the class teacher/teaching assistant)

During the Autumn term, we will be assessing the children's phonic knowledge and working through the RWI Set 1 and 2 sounds.  When the children are confident with their sounds, we will begin to issue reading books.  Children will develop at different stages, so please don't worry if your child is not ready for a book at the same time as some of the other children.  We will only send a book home when we feel the children are confident with their sounds and blending of words. 

We will also use our online reading scheme called 'Reading Eggs'.  This is an exciting and valuable tool to help raise children's confidence in reading.  Once set up, children will be allocated an individual log in and they can start using it at home. These will sent home during the first few weeks of term.  

(PLEASE FIND A PDF DOCUMENT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO 'READING EGGS' AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE)

We also subscribe to a fab Maths resource called Maths Seeds and this along with Reading Eggs will form the part of the Homework. 

Homework

Homework in Reception/Year 1 will be set as a learning menu. We will send this out on the class blog at the start of every month. There is a traffic light system of activities that you can do, should do and must do. We would be grateful if you could engage with these as much as possible and share the learning with us.

Fruit and Drinks

As a healthy school, we are encouraging children to eat a healthy snack (such as fruit, crackers, cheese, rice cakes etc) which they can bring into school for their break time.  Children have their own school water bottles which they have access to during the school day and will need to be taken home and brought back each day.

Labelling

Please can we ask that you label all jumpers, cardigans, clothes and bags as this helps us get all belongings back to the right children.  We have a jumper box in class that we use to try and contain stray jumpers and cardigans, but inevitably, as they are only little, things do get left in the hall and on the yard.  Labelling saves us a lot of hunting!  We also advise that you label lunch box containers and water bottles.

Topics for ) Year 2025 / 2026

Autumn: Turrets and Tiaras

Spring: Cool Cultures (Whole School Topic)

Summer: Shiver Me Timber

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate in asking by either ringing the office, by emailing the school or using the contact page on our class page on the school website.

Kindest regards,

Kind regards.

Mrs A Davies & Mrs R Smith