Week beginning 1st June
We hope you all enjoyed last week’s gorgeous weather! This term we will be learning about animals so, to bring the topic to life we are planning to hatch some chicks! We have told the children and set up the incubator and hope to put the eggs in on Tuesday or Wednesday this week. The […]
Week beginning 18th May
Next week we will be updating our phonics assessments – the children have been working hard to learn new sounds, so it will be good to see where we’re at! We will also be getting our plans for catching a giant down on paper and talking about where capital letters are used. In maths we […]
Week beginning 11th May
Next week, in literacy, we will be continuing to plan our ‘How to Catch a giant’ instructions – so far there is a net, a lava pit and possibly a food lure! On Thursday morning there is a drama workshop on the theme of Peter Pan. We have sent home a list of words to […]
Week beginning 5th May
Next week is a shorter week after the Bank Holiday weekend, so there is no Forest Camp. We will continue our literacy work on Jack and the Beanstalk by inventing our own instructions for ‘How to catch a giant’. We will be continuing lots of short bursts of phonics practice in school, and will send […]
Week beginning 27th April
We hope that you are all enjoying the unexpectedly gorgeous weather! The children have been really enjoying their playtimes this week. If it carries on into next week, we may need to be thinking about water/hats/sun screen rather earlier than usual… The class photo, which was taken on Monday, is up on the window by […]
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 […]
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