KS1: Reading

12th September 2025Carly Schon

Today the children brought home their first set of reading books for the new school year. Please encourage your children to look after these books and keep them safe in their school backpacks. This year we are asking that children bring their reading books to school everyday. This is to avoid missing books on Fridays when books are changed and also because staff plan to read your child’s books with them as regularly as possible.

Here are the slides that explain how children learn to read at Green Top School and the types of books they may bring home to share with you. Please take a few minutes to read these slides so you know how we work to support your child on their reading journey.

If you require any help or support please contact your child’s class teacher as we are always willing to answer and questions or concerns you may have.

Click the link below to view the slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N1FRFJxJJufZzAsnsYLSd2KLWJuy6V9hPpM31rIMHtg/edit?slide=id.p#slide=id.p

Year 1 Parents – All Year 1 children brought home the first Year 1 Shared Reading book this week. Children at the expected level will be able to read this book. Next week we will begin our new phonics groups and your child will be placed into a reading group that is best suited to their current ability. Next week your child will be given the shared reading book that is more closely matched to level they are working in their phonics groups. We want children to enjoy reading and to achieve this we want children to read books that are closely matched to their current phonics level.

Year 1: Numbots

12th September 2025Carly Schon

Today the children brought home their log-in details for Numbots and TTRockstars. Children are welcome to use both games but at this time of year we find Numbots particularly useful. Children who use Numbots regularly often show greater confidence in their maths skills. The game may appear easy at first but the games are designed to teach children the skills they need in order to be able to answer harder mathematical questions later. Please introduce your child to the game but do not give them the answers to the questions. The games are designed to track your child’s individual progress and if anyone else uses their account it can effect the games given to you child and lead to gaps in their overall progress.

Children can earn certificates for completing the different stages of the game. We also give out special certificates in our community crew assembly for children with the highest number of minutes played/correct answers/stages completed etc. This varies from week to week but one child from each class will be rewarded with a certificate for the chosen reason.

Please watch the video below to find out more about how Numbots can help your child.

You might also find the following guides useful:

Click to access numbots_parent_guide_554ecf5cb5.pdf

Click to access Maths_Help_Guide_021bf7464a.pdf

KS1: Visitor

11th September 2025Carly Schon

Key stage 1 will be taking part in an interactive drama workshop, which will be delivered by an organisation called ‘The Drama Hut’. It will be taking place at school on Thursday 25th September. It won’t affect any of their lunch time. 

The workshop will link directly to their expedition work and will help to enhance their knowledge of The Great Fire Of London, as well as being lots of fun! 

The cost of this workshop works out to be £6 per child. Please make the payment for this on ParentPay before Thursday 25th September. 

Thanks again for your support

Mrs Shaw and the key stage 1 team.

Year 1: Box Modelling

9th September 2025Carly Schon

Next week we will be using our DT skills to create box model tudor houses. If you have any spare cardboard boxes at home that you can donate we would appreciate it. Shoe boxes and cereal boxes would be great but if you have any slightly larger then these would be greatly appreciated too. Please bring boxes in week beginning Monday 15th September.

Key Stage 1: Parent Information

8th September 2025Carly Schon

Thank you to all the adults who attended the Key Stage 1 Welcome Evening tonight. For those of you who could not attend please find the information shared in the link below. If you have any questions please contact your child’s class teacher.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uB0z2DTSYOJ99X39LHmGG17p9cc5XPhX/view?usp=drive_link

Class 6 PE

8th September 2025Jayne Rodgers

We had our first formal PE session today which focused on key skills such as travelling, balance and jumping. The children were very good at all of the skills and really impressed us with how independent they were changing into and out of their kit. That being said, there are still some children who have items of clothing missing. Please can you check your child’s bag for anything that doesn’t belong to them and return it to school ASAP?

Many thanks

Miss R x

Class 6 Marvelous Maths

7th September 2025Jayne Rodgers

The children are loving their new White Rose Maths work books and have done brilliantly in our first sessions. For the first term we work in small adult led groups to complete the workbooks and the other children complete lab activities independently that are linked to the lesson objective. One of our outcomes last week was ‘Count objects from a larger amount’ and the children completed this super-cute activity.

Well done my maths wizards!

Class 6 Hook Week

7th September 2025Jayne Rodgers

Check out the fantastic work these little heroes have completed during our Hook Week. We had a little taster of the exciting things we will be learning about over the next term and made some fantastic arts and crafts to immerse our classroom. Our class mascot Juicy also began to visit children for sleepover’s…something the children look forward to immensely. Watch out for him coming to visit you soon! We were sad that we couldn’t hold our Family Learning as planned but we are working on a new date and will have the information for you as soon as we can.

We hope to see as many of you as we can tomorrow evening for our Parents and Carers Meeting where we will be sharing important and useful information to help the term run smoothly.

See you all tomorrow

Miss R x