Week Beginning 9th March 2026

With the excitement of World Book Day and a welcome appearance from the sunshine, we have had another busy week in year 1! 

Next week is British Science Week and we have so many exciting things planned: experiments, visitors and lots of other fun activities – we can't wait!

A reminder that Stour Forest School is on a Tuesday and Bourne Forest School is on a Wednesday- this will continue as usual during Science Week.

We look forward to seeing lots of you at Stour class worship on Thursday 12th March at 9am in the hall. 

The Book Fair is coming!

We will be having a book fair in school on Wednesday 11th March, Thursday 12th March, Friday 13th March and Monday 16th March, in the library. It will be open every day after school from 3:10pm until 3:45pm.

We receive commission for each book sold which will go towards books for our school library so please support us if you can.

Thank you!

Worship- Our worship theme this week is: New life

Phonics - Next week, the children will be learning to add -er to words. 

Science- We will continue to explore materials and their different properties. We will also be conducting a week long experiment to predict and monitor on which materials cress seeds grow best. 

STEM Engineering project- We will be preparing our ideas for our entries to the Primary Engineer competition- 'If you were an engineer, what would you do?'

Home Learning:

My Maths, Numbots and Twinkl Phonics App log ins are stuck into the front of your child's Reading Record.  Please speak to your child's teacher if you need any support with any of these platforms.

Additional help with reading/phonics:

If you are wondering how you can provide general support for your child at home, our advice is to hear them read as often as possible. Please do not worry if your child brings home the same book from time to time- this is to gain confidence and fluency before moving onto different sounds in other books.

We also have an excellent link to some high quality texts that you may want to consider when choosing children’s books to read or buy!

Additional Maths:

By the end of Year 1, children are expected to:

• count forwards and backwards in ones to 100
• be able to count in 2s, 5s and 10s
• find one more and one less than a given number up to 100
• recognise the value of all coins
• know number bonds (numbers that add together) to total 10 and 20.

Messages:

It is really important to put children’s names in all their clothes, on packed lunch boxes, water bottles, coats etc- otherwise they do not go home with the correct child. We already have some unclaimed and unnamed items from this week. If you could all check that all items are named, we would really appreciate it. 

Please could water bottles be placed into a plastic bag in their school bag to protect school reading books. All water bottles must only contain water and NOT squash please. 

Please note, our fruit at school is delivered on a Monday, but sometimes later in the day. Please could you provide your child with a snack on a Monday to avoid them getting hungry if our fruit has not been delivered. 

Key Information and Dates:

Please wear PE kits on a Thursday.

Thank you for your continued support.

Have a great weekend!

Mr Parsons and Mrs Stoodley