Useful information

Weekly class letters – please find copies of each week’s class letter here.

Reading and Phonics

 

The children will be heard read during guided reading sessions and will change their reading books at least twice a week.

 

How can you help?

 

As you hear your child read please complete their reading journal. Please write whether the children struggled on anything in particular during the reading. Ask the children to explain the story they have read so far, ask them to predict what might happen next or to give an opinion about whether they like the story and more importantly why. This understanding of what they have read is the essential part of the reading process and answering questions about a story is how their reading ability is tested. Practise any new sight words and phonic sounds is helpful, remember to change the order of these when learning and practising – you will be amazed how children can learn them in order without necessarily knowing the individual word. (Look out for a phonics workshop later in the term!)

 

If you are able to help out in school, hearing children read, please let me know.

 

PE

Our PE lesson takes place on Tuesday afternoon. Please send your child with a PE kit on that morning. Please, please can you ensure your child’s name is in each item of clothing – you would be surprised how easy it is to mix up shorts!

 

Snack

Toast is sold each day at play-time. We also have fruit available to KS1 and foundation children which the children have access to should they want some. If you wish to send in your own snacks, these should be fruit or healthy snacks. As we have a child with serious allergies in school, we ask that under no circumstances should the snack contain nuts.

 

Homework

This will essentially be learning spelling words, keeping up with reading and will include a creative “make” activity linked with our topic during the term. Should your child have any issues with this homework, please let me know.