Year 1: Spelling

13th November 2024Carly Schon

Next week we will restart our weekly spelling checks. Our first check will be on Friday 22nd November. Here is our next set of spellings:

Year 1 Phonics

13th November 2024Carly Schon

Thank you to all the parents who joined us for our phonics family learning this week. We hope you found it beneficial and enjoyed spending time with your children in their phonics groups.

This half term we are having a big push on reading and spelling red words correctly and on improving our reading fluency. These are things you could help you child to practise at home.

All children should now be able to read sets 1, 2 and 3 red words from the red words list and we have been practising spelling these this term.

Remember when you are reading at home please ask children to reread pages/books to help them to develop their reading fluency. We are looking for children to be able to recognise as many words by sight as possible without the need for them to sound them out.

If you missed out on our phonics family learning we would still love you to join us. Please speak to your child’s class teacher if you would like to attend one of our phonics lessons.

This week in Miss Rodgers and Miss Schon’s group we have been learning to recognise /ie/ – ‘Tie your tie’.

Mrs Clay’s group have been revisiting /air/ – Air on hair

Miss Cooper’s group have been learning /sh/ – Sherry Shines her Shoes

If you would like any further support with how you can help your child with their phonics learning at home then please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s class teacher.

Remembrance Day

11th November 2024Andrea Hardman

Year 3 learnt all about Remembrance Day and drew beautiful poppies and sang a song about Flanders Field in an ensemble. Here are all of their drawings accompanied by their wonderful singing. Well done Year 3, so proud of you!

Celebrating Diwali

8th November 2024Selina Burton

Today has been full of colour and music in Nursery.

The children have celebrated Diwali by listening to the story Chapatti Moon, colouring Rangoli Patterns, making Diva lamps and dancing with scarves and bangles to Indian music. Such a wonderful day.

Y3 & Y4 – Back to Learning with a Bang!

6th November 2024Claire Dutton

What a busy and exciting couple of days back in school for Year 3 and 4, where we have engaged with lots of valuable input from experts about our expedition topic – war and how it changes lives.

On Monday, we enjoyed a very informative zoom call with two wartime experts who talked us through the lives of children in WW2, as well as guiding us through the work done by women as part of the ‘home-front’.

Then today, we have enjoyed another visit by the Victoria Cross Trust:

Mick, who worked with us back at the start of our expedition, revisited us to share more information about the Victoria Cross medal and some of its recipients from Doncaster, in particular: Thomas Harper VC, Thomas Bryan VC and George Wyatt VC who we are writing biographies about to include in our final product.

And, Keith guided each class through Thorne Cemetery to identify and research the Common Wealth graves located there. We were fascinated by the soldiers that we learnt about and the visit really helped to highlight the importance of the upcoming Remembrance Day and how important it is to remember those who fought – and still do so – for our country. We will remember them!

To end our fantastic day, Keith presented us with some beautiful commemorative slate plaques which show each of the VC Soldiers that we are learning about and the act of bravery which led to them receiving their most prestigious award. We look forward to keeping these plaques in school and to future generations Green Top students benefitting from these going forwards.

Year 1: Phonics

5th November 2024Carly Schon

This week the children in Miss Schon and Miss Rodger’s groups are learning ‘ou – Shout it out’. We are also remembering ‘ow – brown cow’. When spelling words we are learning which words are spelt using /ou/ and which ones are spelt using /ow/. We are also continuing to practise our reading fluency. Can we read sentences fluently without having to sound out the words? The children can practise this in their reading books at home by re-reading sentences or pages in their books so they can see they are able to read faster and more effortlessly. Please encourage children to read their reading books more than once so they feel they have achieved this.