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The children have absolutely amazed us this week with their writing. We’re so proud of what they’ve achieved! We’ve been continuing our work on Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex Smith.

At the start of the week, we explored suffixes again. The children already knew about…

Weekly News, Summer A, Week 6

             22nd May 2026

Announcements: As Mrs Allan leaves for pastures new this week, she would like to say a huge thank you to all of the children and parents who have made Strathmore such a special place to be. It has been such a privilege to…

Phonics -

A very busy week in phonics! We have continued reading and writing words with 2 digraphs this week, including finger, cheep, and wooden. We have also recapped compound words (words that are made up of 2 root words such as rooftop, popcorn & farmyard). In addition to this, we have also…

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This week we have continued our learning about Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion! We used our letter writing skills from our Paddington's Post unit to imagine we were Little Red herself, writing a letter to her Daddy! We thought carefully about using capital letters for proper nouns…

This week we completed our artwork inspired by Yayoi Kusama. We used dots, circles and printing to create a joint piece. We have displayed it in the Nursery cloakroom. 
 

The story we shared this week was the Hungry Caterpillar. We talked about the lifecycle of a caterpillar and used props to…

Weekly News, Summer A, Week 5

              15th May 2026

Announcements: Well, the weather has most certainly taken a bit of a turn this week! We've had hail, thunder, rain and sunshine all in the one day. Please could children come to school with jackets still, as we do aim to be…

Phonics -

This week's focus has been reading and writing words with 2 or more digraphs. Some independent writing includes - sharp, tooth, short, thinker, corner, shorter, shower.

Maths -

We have focused on our understanding of numbers to 10 this week. Starting with subitising, the…

English

We have begun our new narrative unit using Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion, a twist on the traditional Little Red Riding…

This week we have been celebrating feel good week. We took part in Sports Day on Wednesday, everyone did a fantastic job! The nursery team were so proud of how everyone took part in the activities including throwing, jumping, running and taking part in an obstacle course. 

On Friday we went to…

Weekly News, Summer A, Week 4

              8th May 2026

Announcements: Ready, set, go!!! The children had a wonderful time at our Sports morning this week and did a fantastic job of taking part in all of the activities. Many thanks to everyone able to come along to support on the…

Thank you for joining us for our sports morning - we hope you had a lovely time!

Phonics -

We have read words with double digraphs and other longer words with 2+ syllables. Some words we have read - hammer, shimmer, rubber, pattern, seven, helmet, timid.

Independent writing - bigger,…

English

This week in English, we continued our learning about how to write letters! We thought carefully about the letters that were in the story Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type and how they were written in the form of a conversation. Farmer Brown sent letters to his animals and they sent…