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Weekly Newsletter 8

 Announcements: 

Geography local walk: Friday 14th November 2025. Please arrive at the normal time. Children should bring their own rucksack with a water bottle inside. A snack will be provided by school for your child to carry in their rucksack.   

Science: Please…

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Autumn B Week 1 

Week Commencing: 3rd November 

Announcements 

A busy first week back and start to the second half of the Autumn Term. The children have been learning about activists as part of the History unit, and at the end of the last half term they planned…

Welcome back to Nursery!

We hope you all had a lovely half term break. The children have settled back into Nursery so well this week. It was great to see so many smiles as they came in, in the morning.

This week, we have had a wonderful start to the new half term with our Bonfire Night theme…

A busy first week back, we hope you had a lovely half term!

Phonics -

Graphemes - c, k, ck, e, u (recap)

Tricky words - I, is, the (recap)

Maths -

This week, the children have continued to engage with activities that underline the purpose of counting – to find out ‘how…

Weekly News  

Autumn A Week 8 

Week Commencing: 20th October 2025 

Announcements 

Thank you for a lovely first half term! We hope everyone has a wonderful half term break and we can’t wait to see you all in November! 

English 

This week in English we looked a poetry and…

Our first half term in Reception is complete! A huge well done to all the children, they have truly embraced life at Strathmore, we are incredibly proud of them. 

After half term, Reception will be joining the rest of the school on the main playground for lunch time twice a week - Monday and…

Weekly Newsletter 7

We are so proud of all the fantastic learning the children have completed this term. We have seen children grow in resilience and independence in their friendships and learning.

Announcements:

Geography local walk: Friday 14^th November 2025. A letter would have come…

What a fantastic half term we have had the children have settled in well, made lots of new friends and have been very busy! This week we have been learning about Diwali and looking at the seasonal changes around us. We used clay to create Diva lamps and used chalk to make Rangoli…

Autumn A Week 7 

Week Commencing: 13th October  

A lovely week of learning this week in Y2. 

Announcements 

If you have not yet sent your child in with a cardboard box for their habitat, please do so by Tuesday 21st October the latest. We will be making them on Thursday…

Weekly Newsletter 6

It’s been another fun and busy week in Year 1! The children have enjoyed a range of activities, including creating beautiful rangoli patterns to celebrate Diwali!

English

This week, we wrapped up our learning around Puffin Peter by writing alternative endings to the…

Another lovely week of learning, well done Reception!

Phonics -

Graphemes - h, b, f, l.

Tricky word - the.

English -

We have had our first go at writing CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words independently this week, writing the words sun, peg and tick. The children…

17/10/25 

This week we have been sharing the story of the Dot. We talked about how Vashti feels in the story and painted and drew our own dots. We talked about things that we are good at doing.  

In our pen disco this week we drew circles. We used our arms to draw big, medium and small…