Maths Day

We had great fun on Friday - we were doing Maths all day! We liked playing with the Bee Bots and we took lots of photographs of shapes and numbers around the school.

Homework

Watch out for homework based on our new phonics programme called Jolly Phonics. Your child will have a sound book so that he/she can practice the sounds that have been taught. This is a fast track approach to learning the letter sounds and we would appreciate if you use the sound with your child rather than the name of the letter. Learning to read is a mixture of 'sight' words that children just learn to recognise and words that they can put together by blending sounds e.g. 'we' is a sight word - c-a-t can be sounded out.

Your child will also be taking books home for you to read with them, initially. Please take time to sit with your child and share their book. Discuss the pictures; ask them questions about the story; ask them to predict what the story might be about or how it might end...We know that time spent now helping your child to learn to read will have a great impact on their love of reading and their ability to learn from books.

Many thanks for your support!

Mrs Bevan and Mrs Swaby

New to School!

Our Reception and Year 1 class this year welcomes 9 new Reception pupils, 2 new Year 1 pupils and a new teacher - Mrs Bevan! Mrs Swaby and the returning Year 1 pupils have lots of new faces and names to get used to!