Robins
Week Beginning - Monday 9th June 2025
Well we've certainly had some much needed rain, hopefully the weather will settle down a bit this week, athough it does look a bit mixed, so a light raincoat might be adviseable for playtimes towards the end of the week.
This week the Year 2 children will be doing their SATS tests for SPAG, Reading and Maths and the Year 1 children will have NFER papers in Reading and Maths.
Homework remains the same as usual, well done to those children who regularly complete their spellings and maths homework as well as reading on most days at home. Children get extra housepoints for handing their completed work in and the regularity of homework ensures a smooth progression into the expectations as the children get older and move up to new classes.
The year 1 and 2 children continue to have three lots of homework per week: Spellings will be sent home on Mondays and sheets returned the following Monday, dictations and word tests will be given on Tuesdays.
*All year groups have reading books going home daily, please take the time to share your child's book with them. Reception and Year 1 children will keep their book for the week, to re-read for fluency, the books should come back in to school each day.
All children have access to on-line books: Reception and Year 1 have allocated books on Oxford Owl (log in details in reading records) Year 2 have access to the books on the e-platform (log in details in reading records)
Phonics / Spellings
Reception This week the children are learning some new sounds - the start of the phase 5 sounds, with ay, ou (ow), ie (igh) and ea (ee) being taught. It is really important for the children to be seeing these sounds at home as well, so sharing their reading books with them is vital for recognition and fluency.
Phonics grapheme sheet phase 5 can be downloaded from the links below. Reception phase 5 only goes up to c - cycle in the city.
Year 1 This week the children continue to learn alternative sounds: ou (u), gh (f), ou (o) and oo (u).
Y1 spellings this week - words containing 'ear' making the sound 'air'.
Year 2 Spelling lessons will focus on words ending with y making the 'igh' sound and putting these words into the past tense by dropping the 'y' and adding 'ied'.
Y2 Spellings this week - words ending with y and how the word changes when putting into the past tense, taking off the y and adding ied.
All Year 1 and 2 children are expected to learn their spellings and complete the spelling sheets weekly, in pencil please, it is best if your child completes a day at a time for consolidation, rather than rushing through the whole sheet in one go.
English
Y1/2 - This week will be mainly tests, children will review and edit their written work from last week towards the end of this week.
Reception Drawing Club and continuous provision will be based around the story The Girl and the Dinosaur.
Reading - New decodeable phonics books will be given to Reception and Year 1 children at the end of each week, containing the sounds and some tricky words that the children have been learning throughout that week. They should be read and re-read for fluency and expression, so that by the end of the following week, the children can read those words by sight. If your child has two books in their bag, one might be for blending words with taught sounds or a book containing previous sounds to consolidate. It is really important to encourage your child to read their book at home with you so that they can become familiar with the sounds and words that they have been learning in class.
Maths
Year 1/2 - White Rose Maths - this week the children will have maths tests and continue with Fractions at the end of the week.
Homework books will go home on Fridays and must be back in school on the following Thursday. All Year 1 and 2 children should be completing their maths homework weekly.
Reception - White Rose Maths - Explore Sharing children will have plenty of practical activities for sharing and grouping items into equal groups, investigating odd and even numbers as well as doubles
Understanding the World - Geography
We continue with our topic - Would you prefer to live in a hot or cold place? This week the children take a look at our local weather.
The knowledge organiser can be found below.
Religious Education
We will be finishing our unit this term What does it mean to belong to a faith in a Community? Looking at marriages in different religions.
Science
Planting, growing and cooking
D/T
Puppets - the children will start to plan their 'Jungle Book' puppets
PSHE
This year Mrs Jennison will be teaching PSHE on Tuesday mornings and this term the unit will be Changing Me
Music
This will be taught every Wednesday afternoon by Mrs Askew, the children have already learnt a few of the songs for The Jungle Book and are regularly breaking into song.
Physical Education
The children will have a PE session with our PE coach on Thursday afternoon as well as daily 'Corefulness' sessions.
Could we also remind you:
- Your child should be reading regularly at home in order to consolidate the sounds and words that they have been learning in school during the week, through regular reading, they will also become more fluent readers without having to sound out each word in a sentence.
- Water bottles should only contain water, not squash, juice or flavoured water.
- Fruit is supplied for morning snack, children can bring in their own preferred fruit, but not crisps or biscuit bars.
- Although the weather is getting warmer, mornings can be quite chilly and jackets/coats are adviseable . Welly boots can be kept in school to change into for playtimes. Sun hats for warmer weather please.
Mrs Harvey and Mrs Everett
