Swallows w/b 28.03.22

Date: 20th Mar 2022 @ 8:44pm

Swallows Class blog

Friday 25th March

Top Table: Joseph O and  Arnold    Praise: Ella

We have had such an amazing residential at Delamere forest and made some brilliant memories. The children were so well behaved and really represented our school well. 

Miss Cooper, our student teacher, will be leaving us to finish her studies at University before beginning her career as a teacher. We are so thankful for all the support she has provided to the children and the great relationships she has made with Swallows class. We wish her well in the future and hope that she continues to shine! 

Week beginning 19th April 2022:

We will continue to complete our spelling tests on a Thursday and our times tables test will take place on a Friday.   

Reminders:

Please note that our PE day this week are on Monday. Please come to school in your PE uniform as usual on this day. 

As we return for the Summer term, we will be exploring our new English text 'The Last Wolf' by Mini Grey where we will be developing our letter writing skills. We are going to spend time developing our test techniques in reading by using skimming and scanning the text for retrieval answers. In maths, we are going to be compiling lessons together to ensure that all content is taught. The children will begin the day recapping 4 a day to maintain their level of understanding. 

Homework

Read Write Inc

You will have noticed this week that your child may have changed RWI groups or come off the scheme to move on to Pathways to Read. If you have any concerns about how your child is progressing with their reading, please come and speak with me so that I can share more personalised strategies. 

Reading

Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. 

Spellings

For the next two weeks we are going to focus on spelling contractions. It is crucial that the children learn to join the letters accurately and where an apostrophe is the letters either side of it cannot be joined.

This week’s spellings to be quizzed on Friday 22nd April are listed in your blue reading diary.

Times Tables 

https://ttrockstars.com/

Please complete your times tables work sheet for this week. Some children have now moved on to learning their 5 x tables! Well done! If you would like your child to progress quicker, please access times tables rockstars to support their times tables knowledge. 

Please also use Hit the Button and choose the 5 x table facts to help prepare for our 5 x tables test which lots of children are now working on.  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

If you have any worries or queries, please do not hesistate to get into contact with me.

Have a lovely, safe weekend!

Miss Thwaites and Mrs Elson