Week beginning 20th April
Welcome to term 5! The children have returned to school refreshed and enthusiastic, which is lovely to see. This term’s work will focus on investigating plants and growing some of our own; learning about the countries and major cities that make up the UK; and lots of phonics practice in preparation for the Phonics Screening […]
Week beginning 23rd March
Last week of term 4 already! We are looking forward to chatting with you all in our Parent Consultation meetings on Tuesday and Thursday evenings next week. In literacy we will be reassessing the children’s phonics ready for next term. We will also be sending home some links to short phonics videos so that the […]
Week beginning 16th March
Thank you for all the junk – it really helped with making the moon buggies! This week we will be making a poster for the hall about our moon buggies and how we made and tested them. The children really enjoyed making them and were full of ideas. They also enjoyed the drama workshop and […]
Week beginning 9th March
Next week is STEM week (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) so we will be shortening our phonics sessions for the week to make room for a lot more practical activities. The theme this year is ‘Curiosity: What’s your question?’ We will be looking at the kinds of questions the children have (not all of which […]
Week beginning 2nd March
Welcome to a new term! Apologies about the mix up over swimming: for the last two years Year 1 have not swum in term 4 and we thought that this would continue. Luckily we are able to continue to swim and haven’t missed anything as it was Year 2’s turn last week – phew! Next […]
Week beginning 9th February
Thank you so much for your support of the cake sale! We don’t know exactly how much has been raised as yet – but there definitely seems to be enough for the DT equipment we were hoping to buy. The children have worked really hard this week, but there has obviously been a bug going […]
Week beginning 2nd February
Next week KS1 are having a Mega Cake Sale after school on Thursday 5th February under the shelter on the KS1 playground. Please send us cakes to eat sell in a named box or tin. We are hoping to buy some DT equipment with the proceeds! If anyone would like to help out with selling […]
Week beginning 26th January
Nearly the end of January already! Whilst the weather is so wet, it is really helpful for the children to have a bag of spare clothes in case they get wet or fall in the mud. On a related note, now that we are using the apparatus in the hall for PE, the children will […]
Week beginning 19th January
Next week we are continuing with the story of Three little Pigs, this time describing the Big, Bad Wolf. In handwriting we are practising the letters u and y: forming them with joining lines and noticing where to place them on the line. In maths we will be using number lines and comparing and ordering […]
Week beginning 12th January
We hope you all enjoyed a lovely Christmas with your families – Happy New Year from us all! This term in literacy we will be looking at some traditional tales, beginning with the Three Little Pigs. This week we will be reading different versions of the story and writing speech bubbles for what the different […]
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