Red Nose Day

Thanks to many of you that popped along to help out on Friday - it helps so much and obviously we wouldn't have been able to get wet in the stocks if you hadn't have been there so thank you (I think!)

Phonics

Just a quick reminder that the phonics workshops are this week on Monday afternoon and Wednesday evening.

Phonics for this week

You will be correct in thinking that we have already introduced these sounds but we feel that they are important enough for us to spend an extra week ensuring that the children can "use and apply" these sounds within their writing.

Phonics groups

As you may know we have separated the children into phonics groups to enable us to give each group a phonics session to meet their needs. These are the sounds we have been learning.

Happy new year!

I find it hard to believe that this is my first Blog of 2009 - what have I been doing???

Our theme for this term is called "In my dreams" and is a mixture of princess fairy tales and monsters - we will leave you to decide which your child will prefer.

We will be concentrating more on writing now and encouraging the children to write more often during busy times. In numeracy we have been looking at sorting objects using colours, sizes and shapes.

In our knowledge and understanding work we are looking at materials with particular attention to whether they float or sink and if they are waterproof.

For our creative work we will be making clay monsters so if you are at a loose end please feel free to pop in and offer a hand!

As always - if in doubt please ask!

WOW

Well I think we feel that the title said it all really - It was certainly a cracker of a show! We would like to thank everybody for coming and for all your kind words but really we would just like to share how proud we are of the children - they made the show what it was!

The Biscuit Sale

We would like to say a huge thank you to all of the parents, grandparents, etc who joined us to make our biscuit sale a success. The children thoroughly enjoyed selling you things that they had made and they made us very proud.

The purpose of the sale was to make money for our Christmas / End of Term party and so we can send a gift to our twin school in Sri Lanka so if you didn't make the sale and would like to contribute please feel free to pop some money into an envelope and give it to us at school.

Thanks again.