Robins

A very warm welcome to our new Reception children. They are all settling in brilliantly and already impressing us with a fantastic attitude to learning. Welcome back Year 1 and 2. These children have been working hard and being good role models.

PE days -Monday & Thursday. Children come to school dressed in their PE kit on these days please. Please ensure your child is in their correct Dinton PE kit, suitable for indoors and outdoors and a pair of trainers. Reception children – please send your child in with a pair of wellies for accessing our outdoor environment (if you haven’t already done so). Now the weather is more autumnal, a coat now too please is needed. Please ensure all belongings are named.

Reading books along with your child’s reading record are to be brought in daily. Please can you read to your child a minimum of 4 times a week. Please can parents make a note of pages, and any hard words and how it went generally in the reading record. Details of a phonics workshop to explain how to read with your child and how they learn phonics at school will be coming up soon- look out for dates.

Homework-

Reception / 1 / 2 -reading books sent home

Years 1 and 2: Spellings are given out on a Monday and children will be tested the following Tuesday.

Years 1 and 2: Maths homework is set on a ……

1 session of 20 mins on Numbots for yr 1

2 sessions of 20 mins for yr 2

Here’s a round up of what we’ve been doing so far and what is coming up this week:

English / Drawing Club

We have been listening to, exploring and writing about the story, I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen. Reception have been exploring the themes of this book in their continuous provision.

Our next story focus will be Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

Year 1 and 2 have been learning about different types of nouns in their SPAG work and we’ve had regular handwriting sessions.

Book Club: Bumblebear by Nadia Shireen

We’ve been exploring the main character ‘Bumblebear’ and how he felt being in disguise at Bee School.

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