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• Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th March are parents evenings after school. Please sign up online if you haven’t already. All parents/carers were sent an email earlier in the week.
• You will soon communication about our school trip to Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm. Please speak to your child’s class teacher if you would like to come with us as a parent helper. Once we have collated a list, we will pick names out of a hat.
• At parents evening, some teachers will recommend that you ask you child questions when they are reading to develop their comprehension. Please click here to view some example questions.
• Every child needs to bring their book, book bag and reading record into school everyday. 
• Please do not allow your child to play with the resources on the patio before school (including the mountain and the bikes/scooters). Please pass this on to your any adults who bring your child to school.
• Phonics and letter formation – We are really pleased to be able to share this document with you (click here). The document shows you the Phase 2 phonemes with a description of the corresponding action, the correct letter formation and the image children will associate with the phoneme. The children have been learning these phonemes in their Phonics lessons, so should already be familiar with them. Please use this document to support your child’s letter formation and use the ‘script’ that we use in school to ensure consistency.
• Please remember to read the phonetically decodable reading book with your child everyday. Reading the same book daily for several days helps to develop fluency and embed phonic knowledge and skills. Please write a positive comment about your child’s reading in their log book everyday. You can click here to access the blog post about reading at Henleaze Infant School and click here to view some of the FAQ’s. Please remember to return your child’s books every Monday as they will swap them for new ones on Mondays.

Celebrations

What an exciting week we have had! The children enjoyed 100 day, a visit from 3 police officers and World Book Day!

Click here to see the blog post about 100 day.

Click here to see the blog post about our visit from the police.

Click here to see the blog post about World Book Day.

The children enjoyed learning about our new topic ‘Cold Places’ and exploring the ice.

Star of the Week

Class 1 – Cairo

Class 2 – Rosalie

Class 3 – Hudda

Evidence Me – Observation request

This week please send in (via Evidence Me) a drawing of your child’s favourite animals that live in cold places (your child should be familiar with penguin, polar bear, snow leopard, arctic fox, reindeer, seal, whale). Please click here to view the Evidence Me parents guide.

Week 2 Learning

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Continuing our theme ‘Healthy Me’, we will be learning about how moving and resting are good for our bodies, as well as naming body parts.

Communication and Language

We will continue to read our story ‘The Emperors Egg’. The children will be engaging in helicopter stories where they will tell stories and act them out.

Word of the week: Investigation

Physical Development

This week we will be playing Sticky Bodies as we explore the apparatus for example ‘ stick an elbow to the floor or beam’. We will also be practising the gymnastic shapes we learnt last week (pencil, straddle, star, pike, tuck)

Literacy

Please continue to use the phonics grid with your child to practice all the phonemes we have learnt so far. We suggest doing this alongside their daily reading.  If your child has misplaced the grid, click here to access it.

This week we will be mastering previously learnt phonemes from phase 3. This week we will be focusing on oo, ar, or , ur. 

Please support your child at home to practise their letter formation. Click here to see the correct letter formation and ‘script’ we use in school to support children to form their letters. This will ensure consistency between home and school.

This week we will continue to read with your child either 1:1 or in a small guided reading session. Please continue to read with your child every day to improve their fluency with a text. Ask your child questions about the characters, what they think might happen next and discuss/ explain what they think is happening in the pictures.

Writing –This week we will be writing a non-fiction animal fact file about polar bears.

Maths

This week, the children will explore number bonds to 10 using real objects in different contexts.

We will also be looking at pictures to understand number bonds too e.g. there are 10 apples. How many in the ground and how many in the tree? We will be using tens frames and egg boxes to fill the spaces with objects (see below). You can help your child at home by saying a number (e.g. 7) and they have to say the number which makes the bond to 10 (e.g. 3)

If you have a box of 12 eggs, we would be really grateful if you could bring them into school. We will then cut 2 of the compartments off to make an egg box 10s frame!

Understanding the World

We will be thinking about explorers clothing in the past and now. We will be listening to explorers talk about their journeys. We will also have lots of ice to explore and measure as it melts. 

Religion and Worldviews

This week we will be learning the important Jewish and Christian story of Moses in the basket as background to our lesson the following week on the story and celebration of Passover.

Expressive Arts and Design

This week we will be making an igloo using a range of different materials, looking at Mario Mer for inspiration.