Welcome to Reception!

We would like to say a big 'hello' and welcome to the Academy of Cuxton Schools. We are made up of 2 Reception classes, Oak and Ash class. If you wish to ask us anything or pass on any information at all, please feel free to approach a member of the EYFS team at the gates in the morning or the afternoon or email the office at office@academyofcuxton.org and we will get back to you. 

Oak Class

Teachers: Miss Taylor (4 days) and Miss Sawhney (1 day)

TAs: Mrs Mussellwhite (4 days) and Mrs Jones (1 day)

Additional Support in class: Mrs Costas

Ash Class

Teachers: Miss Emslie (4 days) and Mrs Balestrini (1 day)

TA: Miss Slim

Cover Teachers 

Mrs Hutcheon 

Miss Sayer

Tom

Term 3 Updats

Oak Class will have PE on Friday annd Ash Class will have PE on Tuesday. Please can we ask that your child’s earrings are removed or covered before coming into school. PE kits will stay in school for the entire term and will be sent home at each half term.

Ash Class have Forest School this term on a Wednesday. Please read the letter to find out more information.

Phonics

We have now started to learn our Phase 3 sounds. Please continue to support your child to recap the weeks sounds by completing their homework. They will also need to keep practising their oral blending skills and decoding of words as well as reading tricky words. If you need any support with this, please speak to a member of the Reception team.

Home Reading

Your children will continue to bring their school book home between Wednesday and Friday. Please ensure these books are returned on time as they will be needed for another group. If books are not returned on time, a ‘wanted’ slip will make its way home! If books continually do not get returned to school, children will be set ebooks instead.

An additional, shared book will come home on Friday which is for children to enjoy and share with their family. Please return this book on Friday.

Please log all home reads (phonics books, shared books and additional books from home) onto Boom Read. Children are expected to read at least 3 times a week. The more reads your child completes, the more rewards in school they will earn such as certificates, book marks and adding a leaf to the reading tree! The number of reads for each week will be calculated from Monday to Sunday of the previous week.

Things to bring to school every day

A bookbag

A water bottle

A healthy snack

A cardigan/jumper

A coat

Please ensure all of your child’s belongings are named! We cannot spend valuable learning time hunting for your child’s belongings if they are not named.

Here you will find videos, links and advice to help you learn how to help your child. If you have any questions about this section, please do come and talk to us as we would love to help you. We understand that parents want the absolute best for their children and that children learn best when they are supported by both parents and teachers working together!