We are looking forward to receiving our baby caterpillars this week into our classrooms. They will help with our ongoing investigation into looking at the lifecycle of a butterfly. We’ll keep you posted!

Noticeboard

• This week we will be carrying out our Phonics Screening Check. This will just take part during normal lesson times and will feel like a normal activity that the children are already used to doing with their teachers. Please look back at last week’s blog for more information.
• Here is a link to Bristol’s Festival of Nature. There are lots of events happening throughout the next few weeks. Check it out….

Here are some other important dates for your diary:

Thursday 15th June – Meeting in Main Hall – ‘Changing Me’ -PSHE curriculum Information 3:00-3:20pm.
(More information sent out in last week’s newsletter)

Wednesday 21st June – Children find out their new class teacher/s and have a story with them in their current rooms

Thursday 22nd June – Sports day 1:30 pm – 3:15pm

Wednesday 28th June – Children go to their new classroom with their new teacher

Friday 30th June – Learning Shares in classrooms 9:10 – 9:45am

Wednesday 12th July – School reports to go home

Friday 21st July – Last day of school

New School Year 2023-24

Friday 1st September – Inset day
Monday 4th September – First day of Year 2

• You will find below a grid showing the sessions to be taught each week. 
• Please make sure that PE are in school on the children’s pegs. There were lots of times last term that some children did not have them on their pegs. Could you also please make sure children have a change of shoes suitable for PE in their PE kits as most of our PE will be outside this term. Thank you.

Daily Well Being Activities

Monday – Connect – Play the Empathy game
Tuesday – Take Notice- Notice a rainbow of colours around the classroom or go for a walk around the playground. You could record them on this sheet.
Wednesday – Be Active – Guess the pet workout
Thursday – Keep Learning – Watch these clips about having a growth mindset Growth mindset clip Beans clip
Friday –  Give –  Tell the other people in your class things you love about them, or love to do with them.

English

Phonics: Phase 5c and Phonics Screening Assessments
Information for Sounds and Words Books:
Children will write in these sounds and keywords – Differentiated where necessary. Please use the books for the children to practice in. 

Phase 5c and Revision of Phase 3-5 – Includes pseudo words
Focus alternatives: or aw au / i y / oo u (short)/ s ss c
Keywords for reading then spelling: five, six, seven, eight, nine,  there, where, all, half, walk

Writing: Vocabulary: letter, word, finger space, sentence, punctuation, lower case, capital, full stop, adjective, noun

Writing – ‘Pig the Pug’ By Aaron Blabey
Session 1 Share the story of   ‘Pig the Pug’ – Discuss what has been written with peers and teachers – Questions. Role on the wall for Pig (Shared Write)
Session 2  Independently write  Role on the wall for Trevor (Pig’s friend)
Session 3 Research own Pet – Give a name and a problem
Session 4 – Handwriting 

Reading: Focus:  Fiction – Books including animals and pets

Whole Class Read: ‘Animals All Around Us’ Link to Science themes for this term.

• Read as part of a group. Look at front cover details and explore making predictions, using phonetic knowledge to decode unknown words and to extend vocabulary. Read aloud and look at increasing fluency and use discussion as a group to discuss comprehension and answer written questions.
• In reading groups, continue to continue on phonic and CEW recognition gaps identified.

Reading independent activities linked to whole class read.
Whole Class – Planned story sessions each day

Maths

Addition and Subtraction
Mental Oral/Warm Up
Recall addition and subtraction facts to 10 (daily) 
Count forwards and backwards within 100
Write numbers to 100
1 more/less within 100
10 more/less within 100

Learning Objectives: 
Compare the size of 2 digit numbers within 100.
Use the symbols <, > and = to compare numbers.
To solve one-step problems relating to addition and subtraction
To add and subtract a 2-digit and a 1-digit number
To record as number sentences using + – and = symbols.
Exc: To solve missing number problems using addition or subtraction.

Wider Curriculum

PE-  Outdoor Athletic Skills – Preparation for Sports Afternoon
Jasmine – PE Ball skills continued and preparation for Sports Afternoon

History/Science Research and Study: Ole Kirk Kristiansen
Research the inventor of Lego and see how it has evolved over the years – Add to timeline. Link to work
on Materials and sustainability.

R+WV – Why is our world special?
To assess how pupils are learning at this point in Unit 8
Talk about what they are learning
Talk about what they find interesting or puzzling.
Show respect for different views

PSHE – Changing Me 

• To be able to compare how you are now to when you were a baby and explain some of the changes that will happen to me as I get older.
• I understand and accept that change is a natural part of getting older. – Link to the Human life cycle

Music   – Skills: To feel the pulse and identify the strong beat
Overview: Kinesthetic activities to feel the pulse and strong beat of the bar using songs and percussion

Reading for the stars

Silver Award: 
Bluebell Class – Bill
Gold Award:
Cherry Class – Joey  Felix

Cherry Class – Chloe
Bluebell Class – Esme