Home Learning due to school closure 

Literacy

Listen to Michael Rosen perform his story of We're Going On a Bear Hunt at-  

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iou5LV9dRP0

Look at the description of the bear (‘One shiny wet nose! Two big furry ears! Two big goggly eyes! IT’S A BEAR!’). Choose another animal and write a similar description. Then draw your animal. 

Phonics 

Year 1

Revisit  last weeks sounds ay (pronounced ai), ea (pronounced ee), ie (pronounced igh), aw (pronounced or). 

Look at today's new sound split digraph e-e (pronounced ee) 

Word List-

these

Pete

Eve

Steven

even

theme

gene

scene

complete

extreme

Year R 

Revisit last weeks sounds s,a,t,p,i 

Look at today's new sound n

Word List-

an

in

nip

pan

pin

tin

tan

nap

Reading 

Please can you practice reading your reading books and spot the sounds that you have been learning. 

Welcome to Ash Class!

Ash Class are our Reception and Year 1 children.  We follow the National Curriculum for Key Stage 1 in Year 1 and the Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage (EYFS) in Reception. 

Child initiated play alongside adult directed activities are central to our learning. They allow us to develop new knowledge, understanding and skills, whilst providing rich opportunities to consolidate and practise what we know and can do.

Staff

Reception children are taught by Mrs Williams and Year 1 children are taught by both Mrs Williams, Mrs Goatley and Mrs Stuart.

Other adults who work regularly in the classroom are Mrs Goatley and Mrs Thornhill.

If you have a message or query about your child, you are welcome to speak to the staff member at the door in the morning, Mrs Williams at the end of the school day (once she has seen the children out) or by contacting the school office to arrange a meeting or phone call.

Reminders - Summer Term 2024

• PE - Wednesday

Please ensure that children wear clothes that they can manage to take off, turn the correct way out and dress themselves in easily on these days.

• Reading books & Reading records  - Monday 

Please note that yellow reading records will not be returned until Tuesday to give Mrs Stuart time to write in them.  To support consolidation and fluency, children will be bringing home one reading book each week.  Fluent readers can read quickly, accurately, and with appropriate stress and intonation.  This means reading the same text over and over again until they no longer need to sound out the words.  Most books can be read in one session but as the children progress the books may begin to get longer so may need to be read over two sessions.  

• Library books - Monday

Children visit the school library each week to independently select a book that looks interesting to them and bring it home for an adult to read to them.  You can never read too many books to your child and this is a very important step in developing reading for pleasure, especially when children can not yet read for themselves or the level of text they can decode is less exciting than what they can comprehend.

• Coats

Both Reception and Year 1 children have access to the outdoors for both play and learning every day, come rain or shine!  Please ensure that your child has a named coat available in school every day.

• Drinks and snacks

All children in Ash class are provided with a piece of fruit or vegetable each day.  Fresh drinking water is available throughout the day.  All Children should bring a water bottle to school each day, please ensure it is no larger than 500ml, clear and with a suitable sip lid that does not allow water to leak out when knocked over.

Useful Information

Learning Links

Below are some links and websites that the children might enjoy at home, click on the pictures to go to the linked page.  Please note that some of the links are Youtube sites so please supervise your child when they use the internet at home.