Foundation

Spring Term

Welcome back! Hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year.

This half term, we will be looking at traditional tales and will be focussing on a different story each week. The children will be bringing a copy of the story home with them on a Friday so they can share it with you at home. In RE, we will be thinking about the miracles that Jesus performed including feeding the five thousand.
In Phonics we will be learning lots of new digraphs and trigraphs as well as continuing to practise segmenting and blending whilst reading. In Maths we will be consolidating our understanding of numbers to 10 and their composition. We will also be learning about 3D shapes and length, height and time.

PE

Our PE day will remain on a Friday. Please ensure that your child comes to school wearing the correct PE kit. As it is still very cold and we may be outside, the children need to wear their PE jumper and trousers (rather than shorts). They should also be wearing suitable, black PE shoes.

Reading

We complete 3 reading lessons a week, following the Little Wandle scheme, where we listen to your child read. Phonics reading books (Big Cat) are sent home on a Friday and need to be returned the following Monday. Please try to return the books in the condition they come to you. These books are in continual use for other children and are expensive to replace. Children will change their ‘Reading for pleasure’ books on a Monday and will keep them all week. On a Wednesday, we will be sending home Little Wandle handwriting sheets so the children can continue to practice correct letter formation with you at home. Please could both books and handwriting folders be returned every Monday.

Thank you for your support so far during this academic year.

Other

Please ensure that your child brings their water bottle every day. This should contain fresh water please, rather than squash or flavoured water.

Please make sure that all uniform is named as we have a lot of jumpers that are missing and are being taken home by different children.

Many thanks for your ongoing support,

Miss Webb