Coots Archive

Dear Parents and Carers,

A very warm welcome to our Reception families. We hope that you have an enjoyable summer and will be refreshed and ready to join us for the Autumn term. Here’s some useful information for the year ahead.

Arriving at school – At the beginning of each day please leave your child at the gate near Coots classroom. Your child only needs to bring a coat, water bottle and wellies on their first day. You may see our year one children with book-bags, but we won’t need these in Reception yet.  Reception are in school 9-11 on Tuesday 6^th, 8:45-12 on Wednesday, 8:45-1 on Thursday, and then all day from Friday 9^th.

Lunches – We offer a wide menu from which your child can choose their lunch as part of the morning register.  If you prefer, your child can choose to bring a packed lunch, or you can select their choice for them, in advance,  via the Pupil Asset app. It is perfectly fine to swap choices from day to day across the week.

PE – Our weekly PE lessons are normally on a Tuesday, so please make sure your child is wearing their PE kit to school. PE is usually outside, so black joggers, or shorts in warmer weather, and a hoodie or sweatshirt will be great, with trainers rather than plimsolls. Please name everything! Thank you so much.

Handwriting – We introduce pre-cursive handwriting from the beginning of the year. You will hear your child talk about whooshes in and whooshes out. As the year goes on we hope that your child will begin to join their handwriting, in the style known as cursive handwriting. If you need any help with this, please ask.

Home time – At the end of the day we will bring your child to the gate next to Coots class. Please let us know if someone else is collecting your child or if they are going to after-school club.

Tapestry – We will be using tapestry to document your child’s learning this year. We would love to see what your child gets up to at home on here, too.

And finally…

We really hope your child will enjoy a fantastic Reception year. Please ask us if you have any questions at all about what is happening in Coots.  Thank you for your support and interest.

Mrs Sims
Coots Teacher
Neatishead,  Salhouse & Fleggburgh Federation

We hope that you have an enjoyable summer and will be refreshed and ready to join us for the Autumn term. Here’s some useful information for the year ahead.

Arriving at school – Please drop your Coot at the same gate as when they were in reception. Once in the gate, they can pop their belongings onto the trolley, which will be by the gate, and then year ones go to the playground until staff bring them in at 8:55.

What do I need? – Please bring a coat, water bottle and wellies on the first day. It will also be very helpful if your child has a named book-bag, so they can bring their reading book in every day. Please don’t send in back-packs as we are very limited for space.

Lunches – Lunches will continue in the same way, and the current menu carries on in the Autumn term.

PE – Our weekly PE lessons will still be on a Tuesday, so please make sure your child is wearing their PE kit to school. PE is usually outside, so black joggers, or shorts in warmer weather, and a hoodie or sweatshirt will be great, with trainers rather than plimsolls. Please name everything! Thank you so much. We won’t have PE on the first day back.

Home time – At the end of the day we will bring your child to the gate next to Coots class. Please let us know if someone else is collecting your child or if they are going to after-school club.

Tapestry – In year one, we use Tapestry as more of a messaging system, for example for telling you about the weekly spellings they need to learn.

And finally…

We are looking forward to another great year with Coots.  Please ask us if you have any questions at all about what we are getting up to in Coots.  Thank you for your support and interest.

Mrs Sims and Miss Wilson
Year One Teachers
Neatishead,  Salhouse & Fleggburgh Federation

All the children in Coots have settled really well into school. Over the last few weeks, we have been spending time getting to know each other. Last week, the children started to learn phonics. They have learnt the sounds s,a,t,p,i and n. They are now beginning to segment and blend three letter words with these sounds e.g. sat, nap, pin. At school, we use cursive writing. We must all remember our whooshes in and out. In maths, the children have been practising their numbers to 10 and 20. They have been learning how to form them correctly too. We have also started our Funnybones topic.