Robins
Week Beginning - Monday 16th December 2024
Welcome to week 7, the last week of this term and full of festivities.
Last week the children were fantastic in all their Nativity performances and then had the opportunity to see other performers on the 'big stage' at the pantomime, ending the week with the beautiful singing at the Carol service in church.
On Monday this week, we have a cricket session and the children will be learning how to bowl and bat.
On Tuesday we have the 'Cosy Cuppas' visiting again to be entertained with the children's carols.
Wednesday is the school Christmas lunch, children can wear Christmas jumpers to school and the day ends with Celebration worship.
Friday we have class parties, the children can wear their party clothes to school, Hayley will be preparing a party lunch and school ends at 1.30pm.
Homework
There will be no spellings this week.
The year 1 and 2 children continue to have three lots of homework per week:
*Spellings will be given on Mondays and tested on Tuesdays. This week will be the last spellings to go home. There will be no spellings next week.
*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.
Phonics / Spellings
Reception This week we will review some of this term's sounds.
Year 1 Review lessons
Year 2 Revising spellings from this term.
English
Y1/2 - Checking over work from Book Club sessions
Reception Drawing Club
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 need to 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 - finishing Shape, sorting and identifying patterns of 2D and 3D shapes
Reception - Making pictures using different shapes.
Understanding the World - History
Our unit this term is 'How am I making History'. To explore how we remember events. The children will be ending the unit with comparing childhood from the past with the present.
Religious Education
We conclude the unit 'Why does Christmas matter to Christians?' by considering what we can be thankful for at Christmas time.
Science
Seasonal changes and Materials - this week will be looking at materials.
Design Technology
Mechanisms - The children will be finishing their mvoving story book.
PSHE
This year Mrs Jennison will be teaching PSHE on Tuesday mornings and this term the unit will be Celebrating Difference.
Music
This will be taught every Wednesday afternoon by Mrs Askew. On Tuesday the children will be performing the beautiful carols once more to the Cosy Cuppa folk.
Physical Education
The children will have a PE session with our PE coach on Thursday mornings.
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.
- With the wetter weather staying with us, please can you send your child in with a waterproof jacket and welly boots to change into for playtimes
We hope you all have a lovely Christmas with family and friends and look forward to seeing you all in 2025.
Mrs Harvey and Mrs Everett
