Robins

Week Beginning - Monday 21st  April 2025 (Bank Holiday)

School starts again on Tuesday 22nd April 2025

Welcome to the Summer Term, week 1 of Term 5.  

We hope you all enjoyed a lovely break with the great weather that we had. 

Homework remains the same as usual

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 children are not learning new sounds but are learning blends of sounds. 

Year 1  For the next few weeks, the children will be reviewing previously taught sounds.

Spellings - words containing 'u' making different sounds.  

Year 2  Spelling lessons will focus on how suffixes affect the verb.  This week the children will be addeing the 'ment' suffix.

Spelling sheets this week contain Year 2 common exception words. 

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 we start our new story based on 'Wombat goes Walkabout'

Reception Drawing Club  club for the next two weeks will be based on  Lost and Found.  

The caterpillars from last term have now become chrysalides and have attached themselves to the lid of the tub soon to emerge as butterflies.

Reading - 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.  It is really important to encourage your child to read their book at home with you so that they can become familiar with the sounds and words that they have been learning in class.

Maths  

Year 1/2 - White Rose Maths - this week, the children will be learning about tallies, tables and block diagrams.

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 building numbers beyond 10 and counting up to 13.

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 new unit this term will be  What does it mean to belong to a faith in a Community?  

Science

Animal Groups, Planting and growing

D/T

PSHE

This year Mrs Jennison will be teaching PSHE on Tuesday mornings and this term the unit will be about Families.  

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 April).   Welly boots can be kept in school to change into for playtimes.

Mrs Harvey and Mrs Everett

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