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.

It's a cracker!

This week we will be sending home information about what your child will need and if they have a short line to learn. Each child has a part within the play and may get to speak, act out a role, dance or play a musical instrument. We have tried to ensure that these parts suit your child's abilities and confidence levels at the same time as ensuring that all 63 children are involved so we would appreciate your help and support.

The production will take place once on Tuesday 16th December at 10am in the hall.

Help! I need somebody

We have had a lovely week of visitors which we hope that your children have told you about! On Monday PC Peatfield came to talk to the children about his role and show them some pieces of uniform and photographs of the different police vehicles. On Thursday we had the Fire Brigade and an engine visit school and they explained their wider roles and showed us lots of their equipment. Later this week we will be having a visitor from the local doctor's surgery.