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Admissions

With effect from 01/09/2025 our charge for nursery all day care will be £25 per day (This must be paid in advance via ParentPay and is non-refundable if your child (ren) does not turn up on the days specified).

UPCOMING EVENTS - PLEASE PUT THEM IN YOUR DIARY!

Open Evening

Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th October are Open Evenings throughout the school.

Further Dates and Events

  • Friday 5th December Winter Fair
  • Thursday 11th December Christmas Jumper Day
  • Friday 19th December 2pm school ends for the term

Nursery

Phonics

Letters and Sound For Parents - Little wandle

Letters & Sounds

Reception

If you would like more support in how to support your child in phonics, please click on the resources below.

You can also contact Ms Conlan:   centaur@greendragon.hounslow.sch.uk

How to Contact The Nursery Team

Email us on the address below : 

nursery@greendragon.hounslow.sch.uk

Teachers will respond between the hours of 8:00 and 4:00pm.

How to Contact The Reception Team

Email us on the address below : 

centaur@greendragon.hounslow.sch.uk

Teachers will respond between the hours of 8:00 and 4:00pm. 

  • Literacy and Phonics

    At Green Dragon Primary School, we believe that all our children can become fluent readers and writers. This is why we teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised, which is a systematic and synthetic phonics (SSP) programme. We start teaching phonics in Reception and follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised progression, which ensures children build on their growing knowledge of the alphabetic code, mastering phonics to read and spell as they move through school.

    As a result, all our children are able to tackle any unfamiliar words as they read. At Green Dragon Primary School we also model the application of the alphabetic code through phonics in shared reading and writing, both inside and outside of the phonics lesson and across the curriculum. We have a strong focus on language development for our children because we know that speaking and listening are crucial skills for reading and writing in all subjects.

    Here is the link to the 'For Parents' section of the Little Wandle website. https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

    Please click here to view our 'Phonics and Reading' page. The resources on this page will help you support your child with saying their phonemes (sounds) and writing their graphemes (letters). There are also useful videos so you can see how your child is taught at school, to be able to confidently support their reading at home. 

  • Reading

    Please read with your child for 10 minutes every evening.

    Encourage them to point to each letter and say its sound, and then to blend them together to read the whole word. Please remember to leave these books in your child’s book bag.

    Children should now know the following GPCs and tricky words.

  • Maths

    We are currently part of the NCETM programme:  Mastering Maths in Reception and KS1.

  • Reception Notes - Take information from grey dropdown boxes

    PE Days

    Centaur 1 and Centaur 2 PE is on Friday.  

    The uniform is black shorts or jogging bottoms and a white t-shirt – no tights on PE days. Children come to school dressed in their PE Kits. No earrings or jewellery.

    Please ensure clothing is all name labelled.

    Home Learning

    Home learning tasks will resume after the holidays, they will be set each week on Friday and due for the following Wednesday.

    Reading is very important. Thank you for writing in your child’s reading journal.

     

  • HOW TO HELP AT HOME

    Talk about your family. Look at family photos.

    -Who is in your family?

    -What countries do they come from?

    -What special things do you and your family like to do together?

    -Do you belong to a religion or follow any particular routines?

    Read with your child daily!

    Talk about strategies you use to calm down when you’re feeling upset or angry and help your child to practise some techniques.

    • Count to 10 and breathe deeply.
    • Think about some things that make you happy.
    • Focus on the things that you can hear, smell, see and touch.

    Tapestry

    Please check your Tapestry memos for phonics videos and information about home learning.

  • Outdoor Area

    Each day your child will have access to outdoor learning so we encourage you to send in a pair of wellington boots that can be kept in school.

  • Lunches & Snack

    Reception parents, please remember to book your child’s lunch via parent pay. We offer the children a daily snack - fruit and sandwiches. The children also have the opportunity to have free milk which can booked using the cool milk website. If you do not want your child to have milk please remember to remove them from the list. Children also have their own water bottle in school.

 
 
 
 
 
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