Miss Rodger’s class | Green Top School

Year 1 Phonics Family Learning

8th November 2025Carly Schon

Year 1 staff would like to invite you to our Phonics Family Learning event! The event will take place on Thursday 27th November 9:00am-10:00am. The session will be a live phonics lesson taught by Miss Schön or Miss Rodgers. You are invited to join your child in their phonics lesson so that you can understand how your child learns phonics in school.

Unfortunately we are unable to cater for younger siblings at this event as this will be the children’s daily phonics lesson.

The school hall will be open from 8:30am for hot drinks. Please access school via the hall. We ask that you arrive on time for a 9am start so as not to disrupt the children’s lesson with late arrivals.

We hope you can join us! Please let us know if you can make it or not by filling out the Google form below. This will help us to effectively plan for the number of adults planning to attend.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmNB7XKzO6-yvTjvnh9Cccp_vjOtwx3py4P2E6YNu7EkFqMA/viewform?usp=header

Thank you,

Miss Schön and Miss Rodgers

key stage 1 community crew

7th November 2025Aime Shaw

We had so many celebrations today and certificates handed out! As always, well done to our fabulous stewards, HOWL point winners, healthy choices award winners, tt rock stars and numbots winners! You are all doing such an amazing job! I wanted to say a huge well done to Mia- our very first sparkly pencil winner…I am so impressed with your handwriting! Well done to Crew Rodgers for getting their first attendance award…absolutely amazing! Finally well done to our fantastic crew champions…we hope your grown ups are just as proud of you as we are!

Have a lovely weekend! X x

KS1 Phonics

6th November 2025Carly Schon

This week we have started our new phonics groups based on our latest phonics assessments. Your child will have been placed in a group that best matches their individual needs.

On Friday your child will bring home their latest phonics report which states which group your child has been placed in.

In Mrs Clay’s group the children have been remembering the /ee/ sound. Mrs Clay has been really impressed with the children’s effort and confidence in phonics over the past few weeks!

In Miss Rodgers group we are revising the sounds and red words we have already learned. We have been reading our consolidation book. We are focussing on improving our reading fluency.

In Miss Schön’s group this week we are working on confidence building and filling the gaps in our learning. We have been practising sounds/words we are finding tricky. It has been so lovely to see that already children are noticing their own personal progress! We will also be working on our reading fluency skills so that we can become confident readers.

In Mrs Leggott’s group we have moved on to the next sound in our learning. We are also learning how to answer reading comprehension questions.

Key stage 1 community crew assembly

18th October 2025Aime Shaw

What a fabulous community crew we had this week! Lots of reading certificates, healthy choices, numbots, tt rockstars, stewardship, HOWL points, attendance awards and of course our amazing crew champions! You are all superstars…have a fabulous 2 week break…see you in November x x

KS1 football tournament!

16th October 2025Simon Gerrard

What a great day for the boys this afternoon as they represented school at their first ever tournament. It’s fair to say we showed lots of courage and determination to be our best. Some highlights included a wonderful solo goal in a tough match, lots of great defensive work and some brave goalkeeping. We can’t wait for more! 🙂 Just a reminder to bring the kits back tomorrow, please!

Key stage 1 neon disco

15th October 2025Aime Shaw

We had lots of fun at the key stage 1 disco this afternoon. Thanks so much to the friends of Green Top who put so much thought and their own time into making these special memories for the children! We had a blast!

Year 1 GBlock Art

7th October 2025June Miller

Below is the year 1 children finishing their art work for The Great Fire Of London, well done everyone your work is amazing!!

Class 6 RE

6th October 2025Jayne Rodgers

In our RE session this afternoon we focused our recent learning on the 6 main religions in the UK on Christianity. We found out about their Holy book and place of worship and discussed the ceremonies carried out in Church. We finished our lovely peaceful afternoon by colouring bookmarks showing some Christian symbols.

Well done everyone x

Year 1: Phonics

4th October 2025Carly Schon

This week in phonics Miss Schön and Miss Rodgers group have been learning /ie/ ‘Tie your tie’.

Ou® new red words or Mr, Mrs, work, can’t and class.

We have been reading the book ‘Let’s Sort it Out’. We have discussed the the vocabulary and the meaning of different words and phrases.

We now know 2 differerent /ie/ sounds

/igh/ as in high, light and bright – We know that the igh sound is only Followed by a ‘t‘

/ie/ as in tie, cries and lied

We have also learned that words can end in il and al make just a ‘l‘ sound at the end of a word

Don’t forget to practice as often as possible so that you can beat your ‘word count per minute’ scores!

Year 1: Phonics Drop In

4th October 2025Carly Schon

Thank you to the families that joined us for our Phonics Drop In after school on Thursday. It was really lovely to meet you all. We will run these events throughout the year but in the meantime if you have any questions or concerns we are always happy to help! I was asked if there are nay apps to support phonics learning. The best way you can support phonics learning at home is by practising phonics homework, red words and reading books. This can be done in fun ways using flashcards, letter/word/sound hunts around the home etc. Please see the photographs below for some ideas. There are a couple of websites that have games that support recognition of phonics sounds, word reading and sentence reading, som of the games are free to access. I have also listed these below. We hope you can join us at our next phonics event!