Starlings blog 17.12.20

Date: 17th Dec 2020 @ 8:28pm

Hello Starlings and welcome to this week's blog

What a fun, festive week we have had in school! We have enjoyed watching the Christmas panto, made Christmas crafts, written Christmas poems, feasted on Christmas dinner and modelled our Christmas jumpers.

For our last worship of the term, we shared our hopes and dreams for the new year together and wrote these onto guiding stars. Most of the children wished for parents and carers to be able to visit school for class worship, for bubbles to be able to mix and for the virus to go away. How thoughtful and reflective!  

We have also completed some Read, Write, Inc assessments so we will have some new groups in the new year. A sticker will be put into diaries with information about changes in groups in the first week back.

Meanwhile, in phonics our groups have worked hard on the following this week:

Pink group

Book: 'In the night'

Sounds focus: ure, tion

Orange group

Book: 'Look out!'

Sounds focus: ure, tion

Yellow group

Book: 'The Duckchick'

Sounds focus: o_e, u_e

Green group

Book: 'Pip's Pizza' 

Sounds focus: oo, oo, ar

Red group

Book 'A Cat in a Pot'

Sounds focus: special friends ng, nk, th 

We have sent the phonics books home but this is all we would like you to do over the holiday. Christmas is such a special time and our little starlings will be big toucans in the blink of an eye so enjoy every moment of your time together and make special memories. We can't wait to hear all about it! 

We cannot thank you enough for the support you have given at home this term. It means so much to us and is having a great impact on the children. 

Thank you also for the kind and thoughtful gifts you have given to us. We are so very grateful.

Please enjoy a happy, safe and healthy Christmas together. We will look forward to seeing you in 2021! 

With best wishes, 

Mrs. Southern, Mrs. O'Marah, Mrs. Judge and Mrs. Esling