Week beginning 10th November 2025

What a brilliant week back at school! The children have come back so well and ready to learn. This week, we have started our new project 'A Walk in the Park'. The project overview and homework can be found at the bottom of this page. Next Wednesday, we are looking forward to our walk to Kings Park. Thank you to the parents who have volunteered to help. We have enough parents for Bourne class but if you are able to volunteer for the Stour class trip during the afternoon of the 13th, please let us know as soon as possible.

Worship:

The worship theme this week is: Remembrance

Learning this week:

English - The children have started the story 'Percy the Parkkeeper, After the Storm' by Nick Butterworth. They will be imitating the story next week and writing sentences to describe the characters. 

Maths - The children will be introduced to bar models and how to use them to support representation of number.

Phonics - The children will be learning aeiou as the long vowel.

The parent information sheet can be found here: Parent Information Sheet

Whole Class Reading - The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark

Art - The children will be looking at different tones and how to use these when making artwork.

Geography - The children will learn how to use simple aerial maps.

Science - We will be investigating what weather types there are during Autumn.

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.

These are excellent skills to be practising at home, although we stress that they will be covered over the course of the school year.

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.

Please see below for key dates across the school.

Thank you for your continued support.

Have a great weekend!

Mr Parsons and Mrs Stoodley