Parent's Meeting

Thank you to everyone who was able to join me on Wednesday.

We talked about the change in learning pace in Year One and the importance of reading at home.

Things have moved quite quickly over the last term and the Great Bear children are now expected to do more learning independently.

I am a huge advocate of reading and believe very strongly in the power of reading and instilling a love of books very early on. In fact large amounts of research show that reading is a more powerful tool to success than gender, race of socioeconomic background.

I then went over the National Year One Phonics Check, what it is and what will happen during the check, how parents/cares are informed of the results and next steps if children don't pass.

There will be an information leaflet for you to read at Parents' Evening, if you didn't make the meeting.

Finally, I would like to invite you to come in and see some Phonics learning in action, in the classroom. Just so that you can see what happens at school and pick up extra ideas on how to support Phonics learning at home. I am planning to run two sessions, one at 9.00am and the other at 2.45pm both will be on the same day. Dates will be posted ASAP, it will be a date in late November.