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14 September 2020

Spellings

To be tested 21st Sept.

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14 September 2020

Introducing reading comprehension to Year 1

Throughout school we use a "Reading Viper" approach to improve key reading skills. Each letter in VIPERS represent a different strand, V=vocabulary, I=inference, P=prediction, E=explain, R=retrieve and the S= sequence (within KS1). Today was our first introduction to the vocabulary viper that…

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14 September 2020

We are learning to recite these classic lines, can you help us?

Please help your child to learn these classic lines from a classic children's text set in a familiar setting.

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14 September 2020

Come to school in your PE kit ...Tuesday and Wednesday

Please remember that your child is required to come to school in their PE kit on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. Our PE kits comprise of navy shorts, your child's house colour t shirt ( red, yellow, green, blue) with their school jumper over the top with a pear of comfortable trainers. As the weather…

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14 September 2020

Sorting

Here we are at the start of our new topic.  We are sorting statements about the Sun, Earth and Moon into ‘true’, ‘false’ and ‘not sure’. It was a lot harder than we thought but we all tried incredibly hard.

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14 September 2020

In a dark, dark town...

This is our focus text for the week and links beautifully to our science learning too. It's repetitive lines and simple structure will really get the children's creative juices flowing. It's written by Janet and Allan Ahlberg who are responsible for penning many classic children's books. Try to…

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11 September 2020

Sorry

Sorry I didn't pop your child's wordboxes in their reading book for this weekend but I will get them to you ASAP.

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11 September 2020

Our very first star of the week in Year 1

A massive well done for rising to the Year 1 challenge

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11 September 2020

Exploring our emotions

Using creative approaches to explore our feelings

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11 September 2020

Number Formation

It's been a long time since we all had to form our numbers.  To help us we've been learning a special trick.  Why not have a go at home and see if you can do it too!

 

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11 September 2020

Rest up, a busy week next week...

The children have all been amazing this week and as the week has gone on the children have become more and more tired. It's been great to have so many happy, smiling faces in the classroom but all this concentration zaps their energy levels and can make them a bit weepy. I think we all need a big…

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