Today in Nursery we started this terms Phonics, we will be learning two new sounds a week. The sounds will be posted on the blog each week so you are aware of what the children are focusing on. We are so excited to start this phonics journey 😃
Wow, what can I say. We had some amazing progress last term and it was lovely to speak to parents during SLCs who said that they had noticed lots of improvement win their children’s reading and writing skills. Some children made super progress and have now moved on to the next group to continue learning at a faster pace with Miss Rodgers.
We have now finished consolidating our previous sounds and are moving on to the next stage in our learning. We are learning /or/ this week in our phonics session and we are focussing on writing in sentences. In Shared Reading we have some additional challenges to look out for in our Share Reading books and we are taking to this brilliantly! It is so lovely to see how much more fluent the children are becoming with their reading.
You can access this weeks book shared reading book here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GiagMAegB0YI_R65wXwzLqhH43fUges4/view?usp=share_link
Our New Learning:
What we should already know:
This week, the children have been working on their creative side. We have been making and drawing lots of different things linked to our new expedition. Take a look at some of the things we have been getting up to!
Polar Bear Faces
Polar Bear Hand Prints
Trying to create the Northern lights in a polar bear paw print.
WOW! The excitement on the children’s faces when they saw a giant snow globe being blown up out side was magical. Thank you to the friends of Green Top for such a wonderful and exciting treat. The children (and staff) had a brilliant time playing!
This morning, Jason, our Crew Councillor taught us all about Christingle. He showed lots of courage standing in front of the class to share his knowledge. A huge shout out to Toby too who knew lots about the religious tradition! We then made our own Christingle’s and they look fab!
A huge shout out and thank you to everyone who braved the cold on Friday night to support and sing along with our choir it was a fab turn out and the children loved it!
Also, a big thank you to our choir who have been committed to coming along each week and practicing the songs – even at lunch time! It definitely paid off!
Hope you all enjoyed your selection boxes, you deserved them!
Mrs Spetch & Mrs Small x
Thank you to all the parents and carers who managed to join us today for our family learning event, wrapping gifts to donate to our local foodbank for Christmas time.
KS1 would like to invite our parents and carers to attend a hero-studded awards event to celebrate the achievements of the wonderful people in our community. The children have been busy writing presentation speeches and rehearsing their hand-shakes in preparation for the ceremony and cannot wait to welcome you all!
DATE: Thursday 23rd November
PLACE: Green Top School Hall
TIME: 4 – 5pm
Refreshments will be available and there will also be the chance to buy a digital copy of the amazing photographs that were taken of the children during our superhero dress up day at the beginning of term.
Please fill in this Google Form to request seats at the event. There is no limit to the number of other children you can bring but the adult seats will be restricted to 2 per KS1 class member.
If your child attends an after school club you could send in party clothes for them to change into and meet them at the ceremony. If not, you could take them home to change and return to school in time for the awards to begin at 4pm.
The children are looking forward to welcoming you all!
