Robins

Week Beginning - Monday 31st  March 2025

Welcome to week 6 of Term 4.  

This term has gone so fast, it's hard to believe that we will be breaking up for the Easter holidays on Friday.  

This week we are supporting the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel event and hoping that many of the children will find alternative ways to come to and from school, rather than by car.

On Friday afternoon, we will be celebrating our Easter Service at St Mary's Church.

Homework

Spellings will be sent home on Mondays  and sheets  returned the following Monday, dictations and word tests will be given on Tuesdays.  

The year 1 and 2 children continue to have three lots of homework per week: 

*Spellings will follow the same format as last term, they will be given on Mondays and tested on Tuesdays.  

*All year groups have reading books going home daily, please take the time to share your child's book with them.  Reception and Year 1 children will keep their book for the week, to re-read for fluency, the books should come back in to school each day.  

All children have access to on-line books:                                                                                              Reception and Year 1 have allocated books on Oxford Owl (log in details in reading records)                Year 2 have access to the books on the e-platform (log in details in reading records)

Phonics / Spellings

Reception  This week the there are no new sounds to learn and the children will be reviewing all sounds during phonics lessons.  

Year 1  This week the children continue to learn to read some alternative phase 5 sounds:                    al ('ar' - palm), augh ('or' - taught), ss ('sh' - mission), ss ('zh' - illusion), ti ('sh' - scrumptious),                ci ('sh' - special)

Spellings - words containing 'i' or 'y'  making the 'igh' sound

Year 2  Spelling lessons will focus on words ending with an 'tion'  and some common words from the Year 2 list

Spelling sheets this week contain words from last week's lessons. 

Spellings will be tested after the Easter Break

All Year 1 and 2 children are expected to learn their spellings and complete the spelling sheets weekly, in pencil please.

English

Y1/2 -  This week the children will continue with writing their recount based on our woodland walk.

Reception Drawing Club  club for the next two weeks will be based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar  with links to our science topic and we have some caterpillars in class to keep an eye on for changes.  We are very keen to see the changes in the caterpillars that we have in class.

New decodeable phonics books will be given to Reception and Year 1 children at the end of each week, containing the sounds and some tricky words that the children have been learning throughout that week.   They should  be read and re-read for fluency and expression, so that by the end of the following week, the children can read those words by sight.  If your child has two books in their bag, one might be for blending words with taught sounds or a book containing previous sounds to consolidate.

Maths  

Year 1/2 - White Rose Maths - the children will complete the unit on Measuring Length using objects.                                                    

Homework books will go home on Fridays and must be back in school on the following Thursday.  All Year 1 and 2 children should be completing their maths homework weekly.

Reception - White Rose Maths -  children will be Exploring 3D shape 

Understanding the World - History

Our topic is - How was school different in the past?  This week we will look at how classrooms in  1900s differed from classrooms today.

The knowledge organiser can be found below.

Religious Education

Our unit  What do Christian's believe God is like?  Concludes this week.

Science

Animal Groups, Planting and growing

D/T

Making a windmill

PSHE

This year Mrs Jennison will be teaching PSHE on Tuesday mornings and this term the unit will be Healthy Me  

Music 

This will be taught every Wednesday afternoon by Mrs Askew.    

Physical Education

The children will have a  PE session with our PE coach on Thursday afternoon as well as daily 'Corefulness' sessions.

Could we also remind you:

• Your child should be reading regularly at home in order to consolidate the sounds and words that they have been learning in school during the week, through regular reading, they will also become more fluent readers without having to sound out each word in a sentence.
• Water bottles should only contain water, not squash, juice or flavoured water.
• Although the weather is getting slightly warmer, mornings and home times are still quite chilly and jackets/coats are adviseable (it is still March).   Welly boots can be kept in school to change into for playtimes.

Mrs Harvey and Mrs Everett

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