Sonning Common Primary School

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Week beginning 13th May

Next week, in literacy, we will be continuing to write recounts of weekly activities and will begin learning the spellings of days of the week. In maths, we will be learning to recognise quarters of shapes or quantities. ‘Hit the button’ (see link below) is good practice for halving quantities: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button In science, we will […]

Week beginning 7th May

Next week in literacy we are starting some work on writing recounts of personal experiences – beginning with a recount of the children’s Bank Holiday activities (assuming it stops raining for long enough to do any!) Thank you all for your continued support with with spellings and phonics practice – we can see the improvement […]

Week beginning 29th April

It’s hard to believe that it’s nearly May, let’s hope it warms up soon! Thank you for your support with the reading and spelling activities the children were really confident and seemed to enjoy showing what they knew. The next installment should have arrived home today. Next week we are continuing our literacy work on […]

Week beginning 22nd April

This term our main focus will be plants and we will all be growing our own beans as well as any other seeds that come our way! The children will be keeping a diary of the progress of their beans and making observations of any changes that occur. We will also be learning to distinguish […]

Week beginning 11th March

The signs of Spring are definitely present! We are looking forward to being able to spend more time outside now the weather is a little warmer! Thank you again, for everyone who sent in tubes and cardboard in preparation for STEM week this week. We are really excited to spend the whole week focused on […]

Week beginning 4th March

March! Spring at last, so let’s hope for lots more sunshine! Thank you for sending in tubes and card in preparation for STEM Week next week, we are still collecting. This week we will be continuing our work on space explorers by making  fact files on Neil Armstrong and doing some descriptive writing about a […]

Week beginning 26th February

Our theme this term for history is space explorers, so this week we will be discussing what we would like to find out about Neil Armstrong and beginning to make a fact file about him. Alongside this we will do some work on using question marks and question words. Maths this week is moving on […]

Week beginning 5th February

A very busy week ahead this week!  In literacy we will be assessing and regrouping all the children in phonics ready for next term, and writing the story of the Three Little Pigs. In maths we will be looking at doubles, near doubles and subtraction. This is another week where Hit the Button will be […]

Week beginning 29th January

This week in literacy we will be practising retelling the story of the Three Little Pigs (acting it out, drawing a map etc) in preparation for retelling it in writing next week. Thank you for your continued support with your children’s reading, we can really see the difference that it is making! In maths we […]

Week beginning 22nd January

This week in literacy we will be continuing our fairytale theme by describing the character of the Big Bad Wolf  in preparation for retelling the story later this term. We will also be learning about suffixes. In maths we will be comparing numbers to twenty using language such as more than/greater than, less than/fewer than […]