This week we will be reviewing our progress so far on our school reading challenge. Each classroom has a display where children can track their progress towards their next milestone. Children also have a 100 square in their reading diaries so that you can follow along with their progress at home. Staff will cross out a number each time a child has read at home.

Children can read their reading books, books from home, comics, magazines or phonics homework sheets. Any reading is great reading! Each time your child reads at home this will count as 1 read. Please write each read in your child’s reading diary so staff can check off the numbers and track children’s progress.

Our current Leader in KS1 leader has read over 170 times this school year!!!

Here are the milestones your child is aiming for and our new certificates for each milestone:

I wonder if anyone will receive the Platinum award by the end of the school year?

This week we are learning:

This week’s Homework:

The children in Year 1 have been continuing to work hard on their phonics knowledge this term. In our phonics lesson each day we practice reading and writing words and sentences using our phonics knowledge. We also practise our new skills through our Shared Reading sessions.

Here are the graphemes we have been learning:

We have noticed lots of improvement in the children’s confidence to read with many children now reading fluently and with great expression. Here are the Shared Reading books we have been reading if you would like to have a go at home:

Butterflies: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xg6oC2CBBaquWlyWJfxvYEd2_v66xu2f/view?usp=sharing

Copies of our Weekly Phonics Homework can be found below:

ire: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lZXU9jS1HttFrEkeaRIjwp4zHZQn_PK/view?usp=sharing

are: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mUyk13wrm22p-WjXAKm1ztGOgIf9W7Sp/view?usp=sharing

tch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pIHmlJjB10hkhs11w_ei1S3NL9qWMHR0/view?usp=sharing

The children in Year 1 will be doing their spellings check tomorrow.