Term 1 Week 8
Dear Parents This week we have continued looking at Autumn, we have read the story of The Leaf Thief and been drawing our own leaf thieves and learning interesting words such as: devastating, snug, canopy, hibernate, rustle, wonderful. We have been out collecting leaves, acorns, conkers and sticks to create artwork and our very hedgehogs using […]
Just One Tree Day
Dear Parents, The charity Just One Tree aims to raise awareness of the important role trees play in reducing CO2 in our atmosphere. They also filter our water, stabilise the soil and form complex ecosystems. To celebrate Just One Tree Day Kites talked about the special oak tree we have at school and looked at […]
Term 1 week 7
Dear Parents, The children have had a great week exploring Autumn and celebrating ‘Just One Tree Day‘. Thank you to all who assisted your child/children in participating in last week’s challenge to go on an Autumnal walk and for all the lovely pictures and nature “treasure” you found. We have been outside gathering MORE items […]
Term 1 Week 6
Dear Parents, We have had a lovely time this week enjoying a range of activities following our Harvest assembly last week. The children have been ‘harvesting’ vegetables from the garden, cleaning them, and playing shops at our Kites Market stall. They have been making craft vegetables to sell at market and handling real money to […]
Term 1 week 5
Dear Parents, This week we have been exploring our emotions. We have been focusing on a pop-up book of Colour Monster and learning words like ’emotions’, ‘jumbled’, ‘confused’, ‘separated’ and ‘content’. Our literacy time has been spent discussing monsters and whether ALL are scary or not, thinking about where the colour monster lives and then looking […]
Term 1 Week 4
Dear Kites Parents, This week we have been looking at being superheroes; what makes us super and focusing on our main book: Supertato! We have also listened to: The Respectful Dot, Worrysaurus and Super Duper ME. The children have been describing Supertato, saving fruits and vegetables from elastic bands, crafting evil peas, creating masks, breaking […]
Term 1 week 3
Dear Kites Parents, We have continued with Marvellous Me this week and focusing on feelings. We have looked at the book Ruby’s Worry and have learned tricky words like: Gargantuan, shrinking, pondered, investigate and dreadful. In phonics, the children have now been introduced to m, a, s, t, d, i and n. Many are starting […]
Term 1 Week 2
Dear Parents, Thank you so much for your attendance at our curriculum sharing evening. We are so happy you could join us and find out a bit more about what we do in Kites. It has been another exciting week in Kites! The children have been working really hard this week at getting into […]
Term 1 Week 1
Apologies- due technical problems, this did not get sent out last Friday as planned. Here is the update from last week. Dear Parents, What a week we have had! The children should all be very proud of themselves for showing bravery, resilience and perseverance this week… and so should YOU; Thank you for all your […]
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