Headteacher: Anna Moss

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05.07.24

Hello Red Class Families,

This week, we started our new topic, ‘Food and Farming’ and we’re lucky enough to have two projects. Our first project is our class assembly and the second is to prepare for the whole school tea party.

In Maths, we continued our work on patterns and solved word problems using bar models. By the end of the week, the children were creating their own simple word problems and drawing a picture bar model to work out the answer. We’ve also spent the week counting in 2s to 20. I’ve set the children the challenge of trying to count in 2s at home.

In Literacy, we shared our new class story, “What Now!” Said the Cow. We’ve started to retell the story ready for our class assembly. Talking of our assembly, we’re already rehearsing songs and creating artwork for the big day. Just a reminder, our class assembly will take place in the school hall, Wednesday, 17^th July at 8.45am. Please wait around Tea and Toast until the doors open.

In PSHE, we continued to use the Zones of Regulation to explore feelings and suggested ways to cope with wobbly feelings around change. From sharing a story to exercising and breathing exercises. Ask the children about ‘bear breathing’ and hopefully they will remember what to do!

It’s the Summer Fair tomorrow. The children have made a trophy for the Olympics. Don’t worry if you can’t attend. We’ll keep the trophies until the end of term. Thank you for all your support with lucky dip bags, raffle tickets, making cakes and the hamper!

See you tomorrow,

Best wishes,

Mrs Webb and Team Red Class xxx

28.06.24

Hello Red Class Families,

What an exciting week! From learning about the Victorian times at Blists Hill to taking part in lots of sporting activities at the Ryland Centre. Not only did the children behave beautifully, but they tried hard in all events throughout both days. During assembly, Miss Townsend even commented on the children’s manners as they said goodbye to the coach driver. Well done, Team Red Class.

In Phonics, we’re starting to write longer sentences with some tricky words such as ‘stormed’. The children’s letter formation is improving every day and gradually reducing in size ready for Year 1. This week, we’ve been reading words ending with -ing and also -ed where the -ed is pronounced in different ways e.g. boasted, cleared, scooped.

It’s been all about patterns in Maths. The children have been copying, extending and creating their own patterns. As always, we keep our Mental Maths skills ticking over by counting back from 20, recalling 1 less than numbers to 20 and reciting and applying doubles, halves and number bonds.

In Computing lessons, we always start with reminders to keep safe online including how to keep your personal information safe e.g. name, age and address. We then moved on to programming the Bee-Bots and Blue-Bots. In PE, we completed our country dance and performed in front of our Nursery friends. Watch out for some fancy feet during our class assembly.

The children worked hard to make their terrariums. They showed good cooperation skills as they worked with a partner. We will now deliver them across school as gifts for the staff to brighten their classrooms.

We’ve issued new group reading books, however, due to our school trips, we will continue to share the same books next week to develop fluency, expression and comprehension skills.

Look out for after-school club (after 3.15pm) information. From Year 1, the children can take part in a range of after-school clubs. From September, the children have the opportunity to join our school choir or our new Rugby Tots club.

Next week, we start our new topic, ‘Food and Farming’. We have two exciting projects including planning for a tea party and our class assembly.

Best wishes,

Mrs Webb and Team Red Class xxx

Hello Red Class Families,

Today, the children enjoyed playing some of the games and activities they’ve been learning about in History. From marbles, to hoop rolling and hopscotch with skipping and a cup and ball too. Earlier in the week, we wrote labels for toys and sequenced them in time and wrote short sentences for Victorian kitchen artefacts. Our work will be presented in a Victorian information book.

In PSHE, we used the Zones of Regulation (red, yellow, green and blue) to talk about change. I showed a photograph of the children’s new classroom and asked them to tell me their colour e.g. red (angry), yellow (worried), green (happy and calm) or blue (sad). The children were great at naming their feelings/colour and some started to explain their reasons. We also discussed how some children might feel two colours at once or they might feel a certain way but they don’t know why. Next week, we will begin to think of strategies to cope with blue, red or yellow feelings. Today, we whispered our colour into our hands, gave the feeling a shake and then used a big breath to blow it away.

We started our country dance in PE. The children worked in two teams to practise some basic steps and tried hard to keep in time. As well as a big focus on counting back from 20, we’ve also been learning how to share equally in Maths and in Literacy lessons we’ve been reading and writing instructions to make our terrariums. Hopefully, we can make our terrariums next week.

Finally, we’ve issued one new reading book this week as we’ve used the same group reading books for two weeks. Mrs Moss’s group have a new book as you were due to change. If your child was part of the ‘teeth check’ today, they will have a letter in their bag to show the results.

Wishing everyone a fantastic weekend.

Best wishes,

Mrs Webb and Team Red Class xxx