Welcome back!

Welcome back everyone.

I hope you had a lovely Easter break and didn't eat too many eggs! You all look like you've grown over the holidays! The line is getting longer when we are in the hall! You all had good news to tell me about what you had been up to and well done for keeping up with your reading.

The yard is looking great and we are really excited about the outdoor area! Our new car is fabulous! Diolch Mr Hole! There will be plenty more developments in the next few weeks. Lets hope the sunshine stays! The willow gaden is also amazing, our school is really making the most of the grounds we have.

This term our topic is "Oh I do like to be beside the seaside..." It is a longer term so we are therefore doing a couple of mini topics up until half term. This next fortnight we are looking at Africa. We will be researching artefacts, music, art work, food, people etc. Mrs Dobbins and Mrs Decaro are coming to each class to tell us all about their travels and to show us their photos. We are really excited about this. We have already made some African masks and African animal collages, next week we are making african drums and rain makers. (Please bring in any containers to help us make these, as letter said).

After our Africa topic we are looking at the garden- plants, growing, minibeasts etc. We will then do a mini project about Pirates- linking to our Gorden Garden ship. I will keep you updated on what we cover during these weeks.

In literacy the reception children are beginning to write words independently and are trying to write their news now, using words around the class to help them. I am really impressed with the children's pencil control. We are still going strong with our jolly phonics as well. The Year 1 children have been working really hard with their writing, ensuring the have good formation and finger spaces. This term we are going to perfect our full stops and capital letters as well as extending our sentences with adjectives. I am really confident that Year 1 will make excellent progress this term. We will continue with spelling for literacy and blends

We will continue home reading books each week. Thanks for all your support with this.

In Mathematical development. We will develop addition and subtraction with reception children as well as lots of 2d and 3d shape activities. We will look at data handling and how to make graphs and pictograms, as well as identifying money and recognising o'clock.
The Year 1 children will be developing addition and subtraction to 20 and beyond, as well as looking at shapes, capacity, lengths, measuring and estimating. We will also look at time-half past, quarter past and quarter to.

There will be plenty of outdoor learning going on this term as well and children will be visiting places within our square mile- the post office, the spar, the fabric shop. It is going to be a busy term!

I will keep you posted with all our achievements this term.

Bye for now, enjoy the sunshine this weekend

Miss Jervis and Mrs Channon

PS- congratulations to Layla Williams my Star of the Week. Layla is absolutely delightful. She has made really good progress with her reading and writing and is always trying her best! Da iawn Layla