We are very excited to be performing our play for you this week. We hope you enjoy watching it. Curtains go up at 9:30am on Wednesday but you will be welcomed into the hall before this. The children will also be perfomring to the rest of the school on Tuesday.

Younger siblings are welcome but we do ask that if they start to make noise that you take them outside so that all children can be heard and have their chance to SHINE!

Phonics book amnesty

We are looking to carry out an audit of our phonics books and are therefore asking that all phonics banded books are returned to school on Monday 31st March. Please can you support us by taking the time to have a thorough check around for any books that may have been mislaid around your home as well as handing in your child’s current books.

This will be a big undertaking and we are going to endeavour to get it completed during that week so that we can send books home again by the end of the week for the Easter holidays. 

We recognise that this means that you will not be able to read the phonics books with your child during this week. We therefore ask that you continue to keep the regular reading routine going by reading stories to your child in the time that you would normally hear them read. 

Thank you for your support with this.
Miss Ross
Reading and Phonics Lead

Diary dates

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 identifying the onomatopoeia in the poem (words that sound like their meaning, such as gobble gobble and yummmmm). We will be practising our inference skills to help us work out what words mean and we will even have a go at performing short sections of the poem.

Writing: We will be writing acrostic poems about ‘cake’

Reading at home: 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 be focusing on place value within 100. We will be partitioning numbers within 100 into tens and ones and also representing numbers to 100 in various ways.

Wider Curriculum

Shine PE 

Music – We will be performing our play! 

Science: This week we will be learning about what a plant ‘bulb’ is. We will be talking about how a bulb changes as it grows and we will be observing the difference between a seed and a bulb.

PSHE: This week we are learning about people who help us and writing a job description.

R+WV – this week we will revisiting the things that we have learnt this term.

DT – We will be learning about food hygiene and will be designing our own fruit salad

Computing – We will be starting to learn how animations are made from a series of photographs. We will be working as a team to plan our own short story that we will make into an animation next week.

Online safety – We will be learning about why it is important to have a healthy balance when using technology. We will be talking about how to say goodbye to devices when it is time to turn them off (video below)