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Cooking and Gardening

Friday 4th April 2025

*NEW DATE*

Friday 14th March

Messages:

Cooking (WB 31.03.25) - Please bring in a container for cooking so children can take what they made home. Thank you! 

Year 1 Visitor

As part of Year 1’s RE Learning curriculum “What Christians believe about God?”, we have invited a vicar on Friday the 28^th of March 2025.

British Science Week National Competition

To celebrate British Science Week, we are encouraging children to take part in this year’s national poster competition. The theme of this year’s competition is ‘Change and Adapt’. Their posters can focus on any area of science they choose, and how it has changed over time.

Ideas for focus could be evolution, changes during the human life cycle or how technology has changed over time. Posters can be A3 or A4 size. Entries must be returned to class teachers by Tuesday 1st April to be submitted in time. Thank you in advance for your support. More details on the competition can be found through the following link:

https://www.britishscienceweek.org/plan-your-activities/poster-competition/

Reading - Please ensure you have read the PDF (which is the first PDF listed below as information about reading) as it explains how and what to read with your children. 

Writing

As we transition to a new approach to teaching writing, called IAACW, you may notice that your child's writing outcomes appear lower than expected when they are published. This is due to the adjustments we are making to align with this new method. You can find out more in our news article here. These are the key indicators for children to be working at age-related expectations at this point in the school year. We have redesigned our curriculum to fit with the new approach.
 

Key indicators include:
 

• Forming lower case letters correctly, starting and finishing in the right place.
• Forming uppercase letters correctly, starting and finishing in the right place.
• Thinking, saying, and remembering a sentence that starts with a time word (time adverbial / time adverb).
• Thinking, saying, and remembering a sentence that starts with an opener.
• Thinking, saying, and remembering a sentence that starts with a time word or an opener.
• Correcting any missing capital letters at the start of a sentence and for names of people.
• Writing a sentence starting with a time word (time adverb / time adverbial) and ending with a full stop.
• Writing a sentence starting with an opener and ending with a full stop.
• Using a capital letter for names of people.
   

Thank you for your understanding and support as we implement this new approach to enhance your child's writing skills.

Cooking voluntary contribution

We are very proud to continue to provide a fantastic opportunity for our pupils to attend cooking sessions. These sessions take place with their class teacher, within the School House kitchen, during the school day.

An annual voluntary contribution of £13.00 has been added to MCAS to cover the cost of ingredients, required to supplement the fresh ingredients provided from the school garden. This fee covers sessions for the whole school year, from September 2024 until July 2025.

This fee is voluntary, however, without the support of our parents, we will be unable to provide an opportunity such as this for our pupils.

To make payment, please log into your MCAS account. The fee, located within the Clubs section, is now available to be added to your basket

Weekly homework checklist:

1. Spellings - see below for new spellings each week.
2. Numbots - Can you reach your 10 minute weekly goal? 
3. Learn your number bonds target number.

        Your sheet will tell you what level you are on.

   4. Read at least 5 times per week.

Computing

We would like to request that passwords for Purple Mash and Numbots are not changed at home. Teachers have a copy of all pupil log ins and passwords for use during lessons. 

Reading and/or talking about their reading to an adult for at least 20 minutes, 5 times a week. Complete your child’s reading record each time they read. Remember it doesn’t always have to be their school book. Reading records and reading books should be sent into school daily.

Numbots for Mathematics

Why do we use Numbots? Please read here to find out more about Numbots.  The programme helps children develop a secure understanding of numbers bonds using multiple representations. This consolidates learning completed in school. Children should aim to do Numbots every week for at least 10 minutes. We would like to thank you for all the support at home.

Number Bond Challenge

Every Thursday children will be given  a Number Bond Challenge to complete within two minutes. They will begin with Number Bonds to 5. If children complete the challenge successfully, they will move to the next challenge the following week.

Year 1 Common Exception Words:

The sounds /f/, /l/, /s/, /z/ and /k/ spelt ff, ll, ss, zz and ck  

WB 31.03.25

off, well, miss, buzz, back

The /ŋ/ sound spelt n before k

WB 21.04.25

bank, think, honk, sink, sunk, tank