Hello All,

Just a quick update to let you know what we have been doing this week:

• Learning about Anthony Browne as an author with a focus on learning the story of Through the Magic Mirror (we made a Missing poster for the boy who is lost in the story).
• Sharing amounts and shapes into halves and quarters and recapping time with “o’clock at the top, half past on the six”.
• Learning about Spring through our guided reading book “When will it be Spring?”.
• Spelling using ‘ed’ ‘ing’ and recapping phase 5 sounds.

PLEASE READ as much as possible over the holidays, your child can still get 2 weeks worth of reading karate points providing you read at least 4 times each week.

Optional homework for the holidays:

• Write a book about what you have done in the holidays – complete with some lovely pictures!
• Practise number bonds, drawing the hands to make different times on clocks, counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, reading scales and cutting things into halves and quarters.
• You may also want to do a shape hunt around your house and garden!

Have a lovely Easter break! See you back on the Monday 16th April!

Miss P 🙂

All KS1 classes have now visited Blackwell’s as part of their book topic! The children loved getting the chance to visit the rare books department – we saw the smallest book in their collection and a first edition of The Cat in the Hat worth £30,000! We also got chance to look through some lovely books in the children’s department and go on a fact hunt around the shop!

Thank you to all the parents who came to help with the KS1 garden this Saturday in the freezing weather! As you can see, the new additions  were greatly received by the children are were a big hit at lunchtime!!

So far, Crystal and Opal class have been to the Botanic Gardens and Topaz are visiting tomorrow. We had so much fun!! Emma showed us around and we visited the Palm House with the rainforest plants and the Arid House with the desert cacti – they were very warm! We looked around the garden and found the oldest tree in the garden, it is almost 400 years old! We also got to make some beautiful pastel and ink designs on cloth!

This week the school gardener Julie Norris came into plant some potatoes with each class! We began by chitting them in a box in class to give their shoots chance to come out and then we used plenty of soil and water to plant them in grow bags. Thank you Julie!

This week Opal class have been so busy we haven’t had time to post!

In English we have been learning and writing historical facts about Captain Scott – it would be great if they wanted to continue researching his story and bringing in any facts they want to share! We have also been reading Tom Crean’s rabbit, a true story about a team mate on Captain Scott’s expedition. Today we tried the tomato soup that they had for Christmas dinner on the Terra Nova and wrote a lovely description about it.

In Maths, we have been solving missing number sums such as, 1 + __ = 20 with numicon. We have also been solving ones with higher numbers by ‘counting on’ on a hundred square (you can find these online for free). Children could continue to practise these at home along with counting in 2s, 5s, and 10s as well as practising counting backwards and filling in number sequences like 37, 36, 35, __,__,__.

Please continue reading and recapping phase 3 and phase 5 sounds. Also, asking lots of questions about what is going on is a great way to check your child fully understands what they are reading.

Thanks for your continued support! Have a nice weekend!

Miss P 🙂