It is Red Nose Day on Friday 21st March 2025. To support Red Nose Day, children can bring in their red nose and wear it at playtimes with their uniform. We will not be collecting money, however if you would like to donate, you can do so online. 

Diary dates

Friday 21st March – Red Nose Day – see note at the top of the blog
Wednesday 26th March, 9:30am – Year 1 performance… Eddie and the Penguin
Friday 16th May – Year 1 trip to the SS Great Britain. More details to follow via email

English

Phonics: Phase 5b of our phonics.

This week our reading and writing will be based around the text Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen. We will also been listening to his poem ‘Chocolate Cake’ which is closely to linked to the book below. 

Reading:
We will be looking at how Michael Rosen performs his poem using expression and identifying the onomatopoeia in the poem (words that sound like their meaning, such as gobble gobble and yummmmm)

Writing:
We will be designing our dream cake and labelling it. We will then be thinking of lots of adjectives to the chocolate cake in teh story.

Reading:
Please continue to read daily with your child at home to support. Please remember to log this in your child’s reading record to support us to know if how many times they have read the book at home when we come to read with them.

Maths   

This week we will finishing off our work around capacity and volume. Then we will be carrying out assessment using all our knowledge about mass, capacity, volume, length and height to answer assessment questions.

Wider Curriculum

Shine PE 

Music – We will be learning songs for our play! 

Science: This week we will be thinking about how plants are cared for in our gardens and how it makes them different to wild plants and flowers.

PSHE: This week we are learning about safety in the home.

R+WV – this week we will learning about how Easter is celebrated in different countries around the world.