Today in Acorns we invited our grown-ups into school to join in with a phonics session. They listened to the story linked to the new phoneme, and practised the action and letter formation with us. Then we explored activities linked to our new letter sound.

We received some lovely, positive feedback from parents –

“The session was great. It’s good to see how the children are learning and how we can help at home. Fantastic to see how settled the children are and how comfortable they are in their classroom.”

“Really enjoyed the session. Lovely to see the children in their classroom and be involved in their learning. What a lovely class.”

“It was great to see how well the children have settled in already. I was pleased to see how confident my child was to share her thoughts with the group.”

“Thank you for the invitation to the phonics lesson and providing useful information!”

At Fellgate we understand the importance of involving families with each step of their child’s learning, and sharing reading is vitally important in a child’s development. We are starting weekly family library sessions in Reception class from this Friday onwards, inviting parents and carers to come in and read for pleasure with their child, and then take a book home to share.