Reading

Reading is THE most important thing you can do with your child at home. The expectation is that your child will read at home every night. If they do not have an opportunity to read to someone at home then they will have an opportunity to read at break time so they do not fall behind with their reading. Please ensure that you record in the reading record book when your child has read at home. Reading books will be changed on a Monday and Wednesday. If you finish a book please make it clear that the book has been finished and you require a new book on book change day.

If the book is finished before book change day, please still read with your child. This can be the same book again, which is great for fluency and understanding of the text, or alternatively this can be a book that you have at home, or even a book from the Oxford Owls website. The login details for Oxford Owls are:  

Username: Robins22-23 Password: floppypassword

Just make sure you record the date, the name of the book read and a comment in the reading record book. 

Phonics Folders

Children will be sent home with new sheets in their phonics folders each Friday and these will be taken in and marked the following Friday. The phonics sheets always link to the phonics that the children are learning that week in their phonics sessions. Supporting with thee will really help your child embed their phonic learning which will in-turn support them with their reading and writing. 

Numbots

NumBots is all about every child achieving the “triple win” of understanding, recall and fluency in mental addition and subtraction, so that they move from counting to calculating.

We ask that children aim to play 5 'games' a week. Numbots pins can be found in the front of your child's Reading Record Book. You can download the Numbots app on a mobile device, or access it through Wonde on a laptop. Each level gets progressively harder, so it is a great way to increase children's basic number fluency, understanding of number and addition and subtraction facts.