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Week Beginning - Monday 3rd February 2025

Welcome to week 5 of Term 3.  

On Monday this week and next week, it is our turn to have the 'Wildcat' gym sessions.

Don't forget to have a search for the longest carrot you can find ready for Numeracy day on Friday (7th), it will also be Celebration worship at 2.40pm.

Homework

Spellings will be sent home on Monday  and sheets  returned next Monday, dictations and word tests will be given on Tuesday.  

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 is a review week, going back over sounds learned so far.

Spellings - words containing 'ew' and 'oe' 

Year 2  Spelling lessons will focus on: homophones, words that sound the same or similar but are spelt differently eg. ate/eight.  

Spellings sheet will contain words from last week's lessons focusing on doubling the consonant before adding 'y' , 'ing', 'est'to cvc words.

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

English

Y1/2 -  Our writing unit is based on The Storm Whale.  This week the children finish writing their own stories and have a go at editing them.  We aim to start the new writing unit based on The Train Ride   by June Crebbin

Reception Drawing Club  for the next two week will be The Train Ride by June Crebbin

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 -  Addition and Subtraction (within 100)                                                          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 - Finding 6, 7, 8  recognising the digits, knowing how many objects make up each number, knowing 1 more and 1 less.

Understanding the World - Geography

Our unit this term is What is it like to live in Shanghai?.  Knowing the five continents and identifying Human and Physical features of different areas.  (see knowledge organiser below).  Using atlases to locate Europe, Asia and China.

Religious Education

Who is Jewish and how do they live? (see knowledge organiser below)  This week the children will be finding out about Chanukah.

Science

Art

Painting and mixed media - life in colour

PSHE

This year Mrs Jennison will be teaching PSHE on Tuesday mornings and this term the unit will be Dreams and Goals.  Over the next two weeks the children will be learning to work collaboratively for a key goal. 

Music 

This will be taught every Wednesday afternoon by Mrs Askew.    

Physical Education

The children will have a gym session with 'Wildcats' on Monday afternoon and a PE session with our PE coach on Thursday afternoon.

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 and sometimes colder weather staying with us, please can you send your child in with a waterproof/warm jacket and welly boots to change into for playtimes.

Mrs Harvey and Mrs Everett

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