Shaw Cross Infant and Nursery School

This homepage will provide you with useful information about your child's year group and keep you up-to-date with what has been happening in class.

For further information about your child’s learning and development in the Early Years Foundations Stage (EYFS) please click here.

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Reception PE day is on a Wednesday. Please bring your child in their PE kit every Wednesday, they can stay in this for the rest of the day.

As a healthy school we want all children to have access to drinking water throughout the day.  Please ensure that your child brings a labelled drinks bottle of fresh water every day. We do not allow children to bring juice in their bottle.

So that your child is prepared for all the activities throughout the school week please remember to bring the following things to school.

• Book bag
• Please ensure your child attends PE in their PE kits on the day specified by your childs class teacher (Reception PE is on Wednesday).
• Reading Scheme and Library books

Please click here for information regarding end of year expectations

We see homework as a very useful tool by which to involve you in your children's learning. However please understand that this can be done at a time that is convenient to you. Each half term you will be sent a curriculum overview of the learning that will take place in school and ways you can extend this at home for Maths, English and the wider curriculum. They will also bring home an additional guidance sheet on the handwriting, phonics and harder to read and spell words that they will be working on and that we would like you to practice at home.  Please encourage your child to bring their homework into school to share it with us. Alternatively you can send things into school via our home learning email at homelearning@shawcrossinfants.co.uk.

Children's reading books are closely matched to the phonics phase that your child is working on. These will be changed on a weekly basis and we ask that you complete five reads per week and complete your child's reading record book which will then enable them to access reading rewards. Re-reading books to build fluency, pace and expression is highly recommended. You can supplement your child's reading by selecting additional books from our shared "Reading for Pleasure" boxes that are situated outside. Please help yourselves to these as you wish. They are organised so that they get progressively more difficult from box 1 to box 9, but please note that they DO NOT link with our phonetic reading scheme. You can also select books from the Oxford Owl eBook library.