Thank you for watching our performance and for all your contributions to the costumes. The children did so well and made us very proud. As a thank you for their hard work in raising awareness of climate change, they have been given a packet of wild flower seeds to plant which were kindly donated by the the Combined Mayoral Authority in Bristol.

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

Friday 4th April – Last Day of Term
Tuesday 22nd April – back to school (Monday 21st April Bank Holiday)
Monday 28th April – Year 1 maths learn-a-long – come in and see how we teach the beginnings of multiplication in maths 
Friday 2nd May – School Closed – INSET day
Monday 5th April – Bank holiday
Friday 16th May – Year 1 trip to the SS Great Britain.
Saturday 17th May – May Fair

English

Phonics: 
We are consolidating Phase 5b teaching from this term based on our assessments.

Reading
This week we will be finishing off our reading unit based around the text Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen. We will be performing sections of this poem as well as performing our own poems. 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.

Writing
We loved writing our acrostic poems last week about chocolate so we have decided to apply these skills to write another acrostic poem about Easter.

Maths   

This week we will be focusing on place value within 100. We will be partitioning numbers within 100 into tens and ones and using this to help us find 1 more and 1 less than a number within 100 as well as finding 10 more and 10 less.

Wider Curriculum

Shine PE: games outside and fundamental skills.

Science: This week we will be digging up a plant to observe the different plant parts that we have been learning about. We will also be seeing if we can remember the purpose of parts of the plant.

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

DT – We will be making the fruit salads that we planned last week! 

Computing – We are going to be creating our own animations this week in small groups using stop motion.