Pupil voice
Your child will be coming home with a pupil feedback form. Please talk to your child about the questions and record their answers. Your child’s voice matters and we would like to know their feelings and opinions about their learning at school.
Reading Workshop
Thank you to all the parents who attended the reading workshop during parents’ evening last night. Don’t worry if you missed it because the workshop will be running again during the parents’ evening on Wednesday 07 February between 5pm and 7pm.
The workshop provides tips and advice on how to support your child’s reading at home. The year 6 children running the workshop demonstrate games and activities to encourage a love of reading. If you have five minutes after visiting your child’s class teacher, then pop in and see what the children have to offer.
Below are some comments from parents who attended the workshop:
- “This was a useful and informative workshop. Useful for our two younger children.”
- “Good descriptive information to support at home.”
- “Really fun and enjoyable. I’d recommend coming.”
Letter Formation
This week, the children have been practising their letter formation in lots of different ways – with paint, sand, white boards, the interactive board and chalk.
Can your child practise their letter formation at home? You could get creative and use other materials to write letters such as shaving foam, sand or paint in zip-lock bags. It’s also really important to practise holding a pencil with a tripod grip and practising letter formation with a pencil will support your child’s writing journey.
Please send us an email to share how your child has been practising their letter formation at home. Your child will receive two challenge bricks for practising at home!
The Big Ink Cartridge Collection
WANTED!
School council are collecting used ink cartridges to raise money for our school and our chosen charity – The Donkey Sanctuary.
All collected used ink and toner cartridges are recycled in an environmentally friendly way and the money raised is donated back to us! The more cartridges we can collect, the more we can raise.
If anyone’s workplace throws their ink cartridges away, we’ll be happy to recycle them for you!
An ink cartridge recycle box is waiting for your donation in the main office reception.
Pure sounds!
A number of parents have been asking how to pronounce the ‘pure’ sounds when reading with their children. We also teach the children the letter name. However, the ‘pure’ sound helps children to segment and blend words when reading.
Here are the pure sounds pronounced by Mrs Flynn and the actions shown by Miss Eckersley! Can you get your child to show you at home?
We are now working on the Phase 3 sounds which are all digraphs. A digraph is a combination of two letters representing one sound. Can your child tell you any of the digraphs we have learnt so far?
People who help us
Our topic after February half term is going to be ‘People who help us’. We’ve noticed that the children are interested in police, doctor and vet role-play. As part of this topic, we’d like to organise for a visitor to come into school to talk to the children about their job. Examples of the types of people we are looking for are a police-officer, doctor, nurse, vet builder, librarian, paramedic or firefighter. If you, or someone you know, is in a profession along these lines and you would like to come and talk to the children about your job, then please speak to a member of the F2 team.
Thank you!
Thank you to those of you who were able to attend the ‘marvellous maths’ stay and play today. It was great to see so many of you there and the children enjoyed sharing their learning with you.
We focused on the number 9. We focus on numbers to twenty throughout the year to get a depth of understanding of what the numbers represent. We talked about what number 9 looks like – not just the numeral but also what it looks like in our environment. For example, 8 flowers and 1 tree – that makes nine!
If you were unable to attend, your child will be bringing home an information booklet with ideas of how to support your child at home. The children also enjoy watching number blocks – a great conversation starter about numbers!
Book of the week!
Every Tuesday, a very special parcel is left in our classroom and the stars of the day get to unwrap it – it’s our book of the week!
This week the book of the week was ‘Astronauts’. We looked at the front cover and blurb and predicted what might happen in the story. We then wrote down our ideas. Later, we read the story to see if we were right. We then talked about what it is like in space and watched a video of an astronaut brushing his teeth in space! We talked about the similarities and differences.
marvellous maths stay and play!
The marvellous maths stay and play is on Tuesday 16 January. We’re very sorry for the mix-up!
Library visit!
Today, we went to the school library. Foundation will be visiting the library every Friday. There are lots of new and exciting books! We talked about what a library is and that we must keep quiet to let others read.
Your child has chosen a book to take home. Please bring your child’s library book back by Friday 12 December if they would like to change it.
