Miss Rodgers phonics group have begun learning the split digraph sounds. This week they have been learning about split digraph e-e. The children have been continuing to develop their reading fluency but some of the children have been struggling with recalling the red words they have learned so far. Please practise your phonics sheets and red word sets 1-4 at home as often as possible please as this will really help your child’s reading fluency in our next set of assessments.
This week we have been learning /ea/ ‘Time for tea. We have been learning to read and spell words containing our three known /ee/ graphemes. We know that some words only use one ‘e’ for /ee/ and some use ‘ee’ or ‘ea’.
I have been really impressed with he children’s effort and enthusiasm and I can tell the children have been practising their red words and reading books at home! I have heard some super reading over the past few weeks! This week we have been working on our accuracy and checking that we look carefully and words to ensure we read them correctly.
We now have a new ‘fun phonics’ session in an afternoon where we have also been learning about split digraphs. Yesterday we learned about split digraph /a-e/ like in the words cake, bake, sale, take, snake. The children loved learning about split digraphs!
Please remember to send reading books back every Friday so that I can change the children’s shared reading books in our phonics session.
Thank You
We had lots of fun last night at our half term disco! There was lots of dancing, a lot of smiling and loads of sweets eaten by the children. Can’t wait for the next one already!
Thanks again to the friends of Green Top as these discos couldn’t happen if it weren’t for you! Thankyou for raising money to support our school to be even better!
What a fabulous community crew assembly we have had! Our stewards, HOWL point winners, numbots heroes, tt rockstar champs and reading book winners have all been celebrated!
A huge special mention for our Crew Champions this week too, it was lovely to hear all of the reasons why you won this week. You look so smart in your lanyard and badge!
Also, well done to Crew Schon for being our attendance winners this week! Well done and keep it up!
Crew Schon were absolutely thrilled to finally win the weekly attendance last week. We now have some money in our new kitty! We also received Paddington in assembly this afternoon and he will be living in our Crew room until our next Community Crew Assembly. One more day this week – I wonder if we can be winners again?
Don’t forget tomorrow is reading books day! Please make sure all reading books are returned tomorrow so that children’s phonics books/homework can be updated in their phonics groups. We have seen huge improvement in children’s confidence, enjoyment and fluency since starting our new home reading strategy. Thank you so much for all your support with this. It is so lovely to hear comments from parents about their child’s achievements at home!
All children who have received the Crew Champion award this school year will be awarded a character trait badge. Some of the children have brought their badges home today. If your child did not receive their badge today they will be given to them on Monday. The children are encouraged to wear their badges with pride on their school uniform. Please keep your child’s badge safe so that they have the opportunity to collect them all. I am helping with this by writing the children’s initials with permanent marker on the back of their badge. Below are our school Character Traits so that you can read a little more about what your child has demonstrated in school to receive their badge.
Well done to our fabulous key stage 1 children this week! Loads of certificates handed out and lots of smiles! Well done!
Thank you Jeff for our little music workshop this morning. We had a great time learning to sing outlet belonging song with you! The children loved it.
