Author: Ian Taylor

What a special last week! We have enjoyed playing Phonics and maths games as well as still learning about our topic On the Beach and oceans and land around the world. We had a lovely party on Thursday and took lots of photographs. We also enjoyed looking back on our year in Reception and what we have liked the most.

This week we have enjoyed Phonics games. In maths the children have thought about manipulating, composing and decomposing shapes and explaining shape arrangements. We had a pirate theme this week for our topic where the children being pirates, making treasure chest, making maps and writing directions for burying some treasure. We also enjoyed a surprise mini baby shower for Mrs

What an exciting week we have had this week! We have completed some of our last phonics learning this week where we learnt root words that end in -er and -est. In maths we focussed on understanding of numbers to 10 and looked at making 10 using different resources in the 5 and a bit way. We started our mini

The Year 2s had a fantastic trip to Warwick Castle. Here are some photos from 2S’s day! We loved it when the owl flew over our heads! Can you see that we tried to look like Henry VIII?

We have had a very hot week this week! Even in the heat we still powered through and in phonics we learnt root words with -ing, root words with -ed as /t/, root words with -ed as /id/ and root words with -ed as /d/. In maths we have been practising our automatic recall of our number bonds to 5

This week has been busy! In Phonics we covered words ending with -s that sound like -s/-z, words ending with -es and longer words. In Maths we looked at patterns within numbers to 10 including making a whole number from two parts, splitting numbers into two groups and recognising how to spot a double and equal groups. We also looked

We had so much fun learning about what it would have been like to be a child in Victorian times. We went to school where we sat on wooden benches and wrote on slates. The teacher was very strict! Afterwards we worked in the kitchen and made lemonade and butter for a very special visitor. Finally we had etiquette lessons

This week we have covered CCVC words in phonics and went over any tricky words needed. In maths we focussed on counting beyond 20deepening the children’s understanding of number. In other areas we have learnt about rock pools, what animals live at the seashore, sounds of the seaside and what animals eat. For writing we wrote about rock pools independently.