Welcome to Term 6, Week 2!

On Monday the children will take this year’s Phonics Screening Test. It will be mentioned in their final school report for the year that they have passed or if they will retake it again in year 2.

More information can be found on the government website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phonics-screening-check-information-for-parents

 
Writing

This week the class will write instructions on how to plant seeds and bulbs.

Phonic/Reading

This week’s focus is Comparing long /a/ GPCs.

We are reading Shared reader 63 A Wind Band Workshop

A digital version can be found here:

https://parents.fft.org.uk/S63_Rights_of_the_Child  

Further Readers:

https://parents.fft.org.uk/further-readers-library/

Password: cg4pp0

 
Maths

We will begin a new unit on Geometry (Position & Direction). The focus is on describing turns, left & right, forwards & backwards and above & below.  

Science

Unit: Identifying Plants. This includes learning to identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees, and identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees. We will of course be planting seeds and bulbs too!

I hope you have a brilliant week!