Robins
Week Beginning - Tuesday 6th May 2025 (Bank holiday 5th May)
We hope you have all had a lovely Bank holiday weekend and fingers crossed that the good weather returns for the week ahead. Please can you remember that your child will need a sun hat for playtimes as well as their water bottle in school.
Homework remains the same as usual, well done to those children who regularly complete their spellings and maths homework as well as reading on most days at home.
The year 1 and 2 children continue to have three lots of homework per week: Spellings will be sent home on Mondays and sheets returned the following Monday, dictations and word tests will be given 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. With regular reading of their books, they will become more fluent with recognising the blends and new words.
Year 1 For the next few weeks, the children will be reviewing previously taught sounds.
Y1 spellings this week - words containing 'ea' making the different sounds 'e' and 'ur'.
Year 2 Spelling lessons will focus on adding the suffix 'ful' where there is no change to the root word.
Y2 Spellings this week - words ending with the suffix 'ly'.
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 continue with our story based on 'Wombat goes Walkabout'
Reception Drawing Club club for the next two weeks will be based on The Enormous Turnip
Last week the butterflies emerged and were released on Friday afternoon with much excitement.
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 continue with the unit on 'money'.
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 working on adding and taking away, using the format - First..... Then ..... Now ....
Understanding the World - Geography
Many thanks to the parents who came in last week to talk about their happy days at Dinton when it was a First School, before the days of the internet, i-pads and interactive boards. The children loved finding out how they learned, where the main part of the school was and particularly where the toilets were!!
Our new topic is going to be - Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place?
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
Plants - this week the children will learn about wild and garden plants.
D/T
3D sculpture - making clay houses
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.
- Fruit is supplied for morning snack, children can bring in their own preferred fruit, but not crisps or biscuit bars.
- 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
