We joined Year R and had a whole blue phase jubilee party. We enjoyed our fruit and vegetables skewers, had squash and the staff in the kitchen made us some yummy biscuits!

The children have been busy the last week of summer term 1. They have been learning about 3D shapes and sorting them according to their properties.

The children wrote about their day at Arundel castle too! They included verbs and adjectives to describe what happened.

Finally we made fruit and vegetable skewers for DT and then we enjoyed them at our Jubilee party we had with Year R!

We hope you have a lovely half term break! The first week back the children will have phonics screening, so any practise of phonics over the half term will be much appreciated.

Here are some images from the school trip. The children had great fun going on a double decker bus for the first time! When we got to the castle the children had snack and then they explored the castle rooms! They had the opportunity to dress up, walk round the beautiful gardens and experience the dungeon. They had such fun and were so exhausted by the end of the day we had some children catch some zzzzzzzs on the coach back to school!

Here are some images from our liturgy last week.

We had fun finding out about our country focus for the summer term. We emptied a back pack and using the objects inside to try to guess where this person was going. By the end of the session most of the children had guessed that it was Antarctica!

The children have been learning how to count in 5s this week. They have been using their new skill to help them answer worded problems.

Next week:

English – The children will be learning about words in their contracted forms, such as is not – isn’t, we are – we’re.

Maths – We will be counting in 2, 5 and 10 to help us solve problems and using the vocabulary ‘groups of’.

How can I help my child at home?

We are doing a big push on phonics at the moment in school, it would be great if you could encourage your child do some phonics at home too. We have found that the alien (nonsense) words seem to be a bit tricky for the children blend as they want to make them into real words. Attached is some you could  get your child to read at home. 

Alien-Nonsense-Word-Cards