Welcome back to the summer term! We are looking forward to settling the children back after the Easter break. Our learning this term will be on Great Explorers. This half term will have a History focus and the children will learn about different types of explorers, including Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong. They will learn about their voyages, including the different modes of transport they used, and their achievements. The children’s learning will then move to a Geography focus, wherein they will find out about our locality, including physical and human features. We will be exploring simple map work and the children will be drawing their own maps.
Reading
Book bags should only be brought into school on Mondays and Thursdays to allow for the exchange of reading books. No other bags or belongings are required in school. This helps us to keeps items transitioning between home and school to a minimum.
Every Monday, your child will bring a reading book home. This book will be wiped down before being put into your child's book bag. This reading book must be kept at home and returned back to school on Thursday. This gives some time for your child to read with you and ideally finish their book. Returned books will go into quarantine for 72 hours to ensure they are safe to be placed back into our school library on the following Monday. We will not be changing books on any other days during the week. Your child will also bring a Reading Record book home. This may be returned to school on Mondays and Thursdays to communicate about your child's reading at home. In the current situation, this Reading Record is only for use at home. Your child will continue to read from separate reading books whilst in school.
School Uniform and Water Bottles
Please remember to clearly label all jumpers and cardigans so we can return them to the correct owner at the end of each school day. To ensure the safety of your child, and other children, no jewellery should be worn for school. However, a small pair of stud earrings is permitted, but these should be removed before school on PE days. Please ensure your child brings a water bottle to school each day, particularly as we hope this term will see the arrival of warmer weather. Your child's bottle should contain only water.
Homework
Homework will be set online via the VLE every Monday at 4.30pm. This term, the children’s homework will take the form of a list of spellings which should be practised at home each day. The children will then all take part in a short spelling quiz the following Monday in class.
Medical Conditions
If your child has a medical condition that staff need to know about, please inform school as soon as possible. If your child requires an inhaler, or any other medicine, please make sure it is in school, and is not out of date.
Snack
Thank you so much for the prompt payments. It is very much appreciated. For those who have not yet paid, the cost for the snack scheme for the spring term was £3 to reflect the dates of the lockdown. For the summer term, it is £1 per week or £7 for this half term. When sending snack money into school, please ensure that it is clearly named so we can keep a track of payments received. Many thanks.
The children receive a fruit snack in the morning break, and in the afternoon we provide a variety of healthy snacks throughout the week and a treat on Friday. If you have chosen not to participate in the snack scheme and wish to provide a snack from home instead, please ensure that it is a healthy food choice such as fruit or a cereal bar. A small, treat snack is allowed on Fridays.
P.E.
This half term, P.E. sessions will take place each Wednesday. Children are asked to come into school wearing their P.E. clothes with a school jumper or cardigan and appropriate footwear.
Many thanks for all your support
Miss Stevenson
Happy New Year! We hope you have all enjoyed a lovely Christmas and New Year.
To start our busy spring term off, the children will be learning about information texts during their English lessons. We will be sorting books according to their genre and identifying key features of a non-fiction text. The children will be writing captions, questions and even having a go at writing their own information pages.
Our learning will then move on to Traditional Tales. We will begin with Jack
and the Beanstalk before exploring other well-known tales. The children will be working on their writing skills such as capital letters, punctuation and the use of adjectives. They will also be sequencing, retelling and writing their own stories.
Our Creative topic will be Castles. This will have a History focus for the first half term and the children will learn about the different features of castles and the roles of those who lived and worked in castles. We will also be designing and making our own moving cannons in our Design and Technology lessons.
Medical Conditions
If your child has a medical condition that staff need to know about, please inform school as soon as possible. If your child requires an inhaler, or any other medicine, please make sure it has been returned to school, and is not out of date.
Reading
Children will be allocated one online book each week on Active Learn. Your child's log in details can be found in the front of their reading record. Please keep a note of them at home. Children are taking home one book to read at home each week, on Monday. It will be wiped down before being put in children’s book bags. Please keep your child’s book at home until Thursday. This gives some time for your child to read with you and ideally finish their book before bringing it back to school on Thursday morning. Books will then be placed in a box for 72 hours to ensure they are safe to be returned to our school library on the following Monday. We will not be changing books on other days so children will only need their book bag on Mondays and Thursdays.
Jumpers, Cardigans and Water Bottles
Please remember to clearly label all jumpers and cardigans and ensure your child brings a water bottle to school each day.
Snack
Children receive a fruit snack in the morning break and in the afternoon, we provide a variety of healthy snacks throughout the week and a treat on Friday.
If you have chosen not to participate in the snack scheme and wish to provide a snack instead please ensure that it is a healthy food choice such as fruit or a cereal bar.
Homework
Homework this half term will be spellings to be practiced and learnt at home.
P.E.
This half term, P.E. sessions will take place each Wednesday. Children are asked to come into school wearing their P.E. clothes with a school jumper or cardigan and appropriate footwear.
If you have any queries or concerns, please feel free to come and speak to me.
Thank you for all your support,
Miss Stevenson