If you have any 2 litre bottles, please could your child fetch them into school to help us complete our greenhouse? Thank you, Year 5/6 Team!
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Freckle
Freckle is an online learning platform that allows students to independently practice Maths. This is an optional homework that can help children improve their fact recall.
Freckle continuously adapts to each child’s individual skills, so each student is getting the appropriate challenge, whether they’re working at, above, or below the expected level.
Children can practice in Freckle on their own for a certain amount of time every day or week. Even if the teacher doesn’t give you specific instructions, your child can access Freckle and practice on their own at any time.
There are several different, age-appropriate and skill-level-appropriate maths activities that students can practice independently.
This week the children will bring home details of how to log onto Freckle. If you have any questions, please speak to a member of the team.
KS1 Information
Dear parents and guardians,
It has been a lovely start to the school year in KS1 and it has been a pleasure to get to know all the children this year.
We would just like to clarify a few elements of the school year to help understand the changes from EYFS to KS1.
Phonics
This year, we have implemented a fantastic brand-new phonics scheme called Read Write Inc. This is a tried and trusted phonics programme, which helps embed decoding skills and set the children up for success in their reading journey. The routines were brand new to the children this year, so we have been working on developing their understanding of the sounds, routines and expectations across KS1 and EYFS this half term,
Mrs Price has already held some lovely training sessions for parents and has more coming shortly. All these dates are on the school website and our KS1 message board. They are invaluable to help adults understand how children will be taught to read. Mrs Price can also answer any questions relating to the scheme at these sessions. There is also lots of fantastic information on the school website.
As part of the RWI programme, the children will work with staff at regular intervals to check their progress with the different sounds. This information is then used to ensure the children are in appropriate groups to teach the sounds the children need help to learn. This information is only used in school. An overall picture of their reading ability will be shared during student-led conferences and when the annual reports are returned home.
Home Reading
The children have been bringing ‘reading for pleasure’ books home so far this year. These books are for adults and children to share and are books that the children have chosen themselves. They are not pitched at the child’s reading level. They are for the children to enjoy and may need adults to read the book to them or support them in their reading.
From Monday, the children who can decode and blend will bring home RWI phonics books. These will be the books that they have already read in class the previous week. They should have read the particular book a minimum of 3 times. The children should be able to explain how they read the books in class and will already have a developing fluency with this book.
The delay in sending the RWI phonics books home was to ensure that the children have been taught the different sounds for their levels, how to ‘Fred talk’ and the process to read the trickier words and the RWI strategies to read the red (non-decodable) words.
Once book bags are returned on a Friday, the phonics books will be changed over the weekend and new books and book bags returned on a Monday.
Homework
Each week a small homework sheet is sent home. The activities on these sheets are consolidation activities and are designed to be low-stakes so that the children can access the majority of these tasks independently.
The sheet also has QR links to additional optional activities. These are activities that can extend the children’s learning but may need adult support. However, there are no expectations for children to complete these particular activities.
Important dates
At the start of each term, the diary dates for the following term will be on the school calendar and can also be accessed on the KS1 Message Board. We will always endeavour to keep any changes to a minimum. We acknowledge there were some teething issues at the start of the term, but have already acted on the feedback from parents to ensure that the information is provided promptly.
Going forward, the primary method of communication will be the KS1 blogs and message boards, but we will also try to text important messages.
There may be some whole school events that come out with slightly shorter notice, but we will try to ensure that this information is provided to parents with a minimum of one week’s notice.
Blogs
Across the year groups, we will always try to share a flavour of the learning the children complete. The way this is presented and the frequency will look slightly different to Evidence Me in EYFS. We are currently reviewing our protocols for the use of blogs and can only apologise for any inconsistencies that may have occurred this half term. We will work hard to ensure there is equity across the classes in KS1.
As with anything in KS1, we are always keen to work with parents to improve or clarify some of our processes. With this in mind, I would like to offer you the opportunity to have a conversation with myself. If you would like to discuss anything with me, please email [email protected] to book a conversation on Thursday afternoon between 2.30 and 3.15pm.
Once again thank you for all your support
Mr Longley and the KS1 team.
KS1 Bedtime reading postponed
Unfortunately, we have decided to postpone our bedtime reading event that was scheduled for Thursday this week.
We appreciate that this week has been a hectic week for families and as a result only a small number of families have confirmed they are attending, so we have decided to reschedule the bedtime reading until the spring term.
We look forward to welcoming families to the family learning event next week. If you haven’t already, please can you confirm your attendance to allow us to prepare enough poppy resources. Please remember to check the diary dates for events happening throughout the remainder of the Autumn term.
Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused
KS1 team
Halloween Disco in KS1 ☠️🤡👹👻👽🧟♂️🎃
Making Predictions 🔮
Today we introduced our brand new story, Where the Poppies now grow”. The children were set the task of piecing together the front cover and talking about what we thought might happen in the story. They made some great predictions!
Systematic Number Bonds 🤖
This afternoon we explored systematic number bonds. We used the iPads to display a tens frame that we could use to work out all of the different ways to make up numbers.
Halloween Disco
Thank you 1/2K, it’s been a blast! 💥
KS1 Bed Time Reading
We’d like to invite all our KS1 families to join us for a snuggly night at school.
Please come in your pyjamas ready to snuggle up with a hot chocolate and some good books. We will end the evening all together listening to some lovely new stories read by Mr Meade and Miss Ketteringhma. We hope you can make it. Thursday 2nd November at 5pm (Please enter through the normal KS1 playground doors)
We should be finished by 5.45pm and return home all relaxed and sleepy 😴 ready to dream about the awesome adventures our books take us on. SEE YOU THERE X
Please could we ask that you complete the Google form to confirm you are attending
Rosa Parks
The children in 2P discussed the concept of race and racism. First we discussed the life of Rosa Parks and how she suffered years of discrimination and segregation.
Next, we discussed how people all have similarities and differences but at times some people will not be kind because of the differences.
Through drama, role play and discussions we worked out what would be seen as racism and what wouldn’t. The children then linked this to the life of Rosa Parks and realised that, at times, some people will not be kind because of the differences.
We used our knowledge to create a short piece of drama that reenacted the story of Rosa Parks on the bus. You can watch this here:
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