🔘 Classes - Mr Whittle: Woodpeckers, Miss Kinsella: Hedgehogs

🔘 Classrooms - Woodpeckers: Downstairs of the Mitchell building closest to the Mansion Road gate.

🔘 Classrooms - Hedgehogs: Downstairs of the Mitchell building closest to Waterloo Road or Paynes Road gates. 

🔘 PE - Year 1 will do their PE sessions every Friday - please send your child to school in their PE kit.

🔘 Phonics books - Year 1 swap their phonics books on Fridays. Please bring in your Big Cat book and reading record. 

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Please attend the Year 1 welcome meeting on Thursday 18th September at 3.30pm in both year 1 classrooms. 

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🔘 Parents' Evening: 26th & 27th November - 3.30 - 6.30

🔘 Nativity Performances: 3 performances during the week beginning 8th December.

🔘 Parents' Evening: 18th & 19th March - 3.30 - 6.30

🔘 Phonics Screening Meeting: 21st April - 3.30 - 4.00

🔘 Phonics Screening Week: Week beginning June 8th, 2026

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We strongly encourage 10-15 minutes of daily reading: sharing stories with your children and listening to them read at their own phonics level are both important.

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