Friday 14th June

Useful information and requests:

• Please ensure your child has a hat and water bottle every day. Please apply sun cream before school.
• Sports Day is now on Thursday 20th June at 9.15am. You are invited to come and watch. PLEASE CAN YOUR CHILD COME TO SCHOOL WEARING THEIR TRAINERS FOR SPORTS DAY.
• If you have any spray empty antibacterial bottles please could we have them in Reception for an activity.

• Things to do, to support your child...
• See if your child can make 10 in different ways.
• Can your child share equally. Ask them to share blueberries/strawberries between the members of your family. Can they be shared equally and are there any left over?

The children have worked really hard at writing their stories this week. They have thought hard about their capital letters and full stops and using all their phonic knowledge to help them spell.


In phonics we have revised the phonemes: ai, igh, oa, ee, ar, oo, or, ur, ow, air, ear, oi,
ai: train, brain, sail, mail 
igh: light, bright, right, sight
oa: goat, boat, float, 
ee: bee, see, tree, teeth
ar: car, farm, far, park
oo: moon, broom, room, gloomy
or: fork, torn, 
ur: burn, turn, 
ow: cow, clown, town, 
air: chair, hair, fair, 
ear: hear, clear, near
oi: coin, poison, coil, foil


In ChIL the children have been extending their learning making animal patterns using pastels and wax resist. They have made animal masks and sorted coins, made models using a range of construction kits, been scientists investigating mini beasts and life cycles among many other things.

In Woodland learning the children have been discussing different types of mini-beast.  They learnt key language such as: habitats, camouflage, insects, predators and danger.  They looked at the patterns on the mini-beasts. They then used natural materials to make their own homes for the toy mini-beast.

In maths this week the Robins have been learning to share into equal groups. First we recapped doubling and halving  and then explained that we can share equally between a different number. They thought about sharing equally and fairly.

The Ducks learnt about making 10 in different ways. The children used the Numicon to make 10 in all the possible ways. 

Next week the Ducks and Robins will swap activities.

Have a lovely weekend
The Year R Team