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Year 3: RE – Why do Jews celebrate Pesach?

5th October 2025Claire Dutton

In our Religious Education session this week, we continued our learning about Moses and the Exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. We learned about their hurried meal of lamb and a flat bread called matzah, and we found out that the Jewish faith remembers and celebrates this important time in their religion via the holiday of Passover (or, Pesach in Hebrew). To consolidate our learning, we sorted reasons for the Exodus into True and False … luckily, we weren’t caught out by any of the red herrings!

We have really been enjoying learning all about the stories of the Jewish religion, why not ask us about how the Jews were told to protect their first born sons from the tenth plague of Egypt?

Reception Phonics

5th October 2025Amanda Wallace

This week we have been learning the following phonemes e/u/r/ck. The sounds will be sent out for the children to be practising to recognise the phoneme, say the phoneme and then write the grapheme.

The children are really starting to learn and retain those sounds but will need support to blend those sounds together. Have a go at the green words and the more they hear those sounds being blended the easier it will become.

Thanks

Mrs Wallace and Mrs Jones 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!

Games to support phonics learning:

www.phonicsplay.co.uk (Phase 3/Phase 4 activities)

www.phonicsbloom.co.uk (Phase 3/Phase 4 activities)

Class 5: America Day

4th October 2025Carly Schon

We had a fantastic day on Thursday! We were so lucky to take part in some special activities throughout the day. First we rocked out with Mr Pickles and even became the drummers in his band! Then we enjoyed our American themed lunch. Cooper and Louie even won a prize for finding a special sticker under their tray! At lunchtime we had cheerleading and baseball on the playground and then in the afternoon we had a go at cheerleading with Mrs Raynor! It was so much fun!