A free four-week course being offered through Nottinghamshire Children's Centre - sharing ideas and strategies to manage young children's behaviour (in a firm but gentle way).

Starting this Thursday on teams 6:00-7:30pm 

Ring 0115 9773749 to find out more information and book your space. 

Please complete the survey at the bottom of this blog!

We hope the parents who were able to attend our meeting last night (23/6/22) found it useful. During the meeting, we shared information to support parents whose children will be starting F2 in September. These meetings are crucial for all parents - if parents cannot regularly support their child's learning, they are likely to fall behind.

Given how important these meetings are, we were disappointed that relatively few parents were able to attend. The survey below is designed to help us find ways to organise meetings that more parents can attend. We would be grateful if all parents could complete the survey.

Many thanks 

SURVEY LINK: https://forms.office.com/r/nRRcQNnaky

This week we will be our sports week. We will be getting involved with lots of fun activities in school including Bollywood dancing! Keep your eyes peeled for a blog post during the week.

Sports week has fallen perfectly into our topic of 'Ready, Steady, Grow'. The big ideas question's that we will be exploring this week are: 

How do we keep our bodies fit and healthy?

What food is good for us and keeps us healthy?

We will be finding out all about what foods we need to have a balanced diet and the importance of having a healthy lifestyle. We will be sharing the two stories below and making our own fruit salad just like Oliver! 

In maths, we have been finding out about the difference between even and odd numbers... The children seemed to have picked up this tricky concept really quickly! Check out the number blocks exploring odds and evens. 

We are very excited to announce our final topic before the summer holidays commence.

Our topic is 'Ready Steady Grow '... Your child will take part in practical activities to explore where food comes from. They will learn what seeds and plants need to grow and grow a variety of plants. They will explore what constitutes a healthy lifestyle, including eating fruit and vegetables, exercise and the importance of teeth brushing. They will find out about life on a farm and about baby animals.

Supporting your child at home

• Visit your local library and find books about farms to share.
• Visit a local farm or farm shop (Harker's farm shop is lovely, it has a viewing area where the children can spot lots of different animals)
• Watch Cbeebies episodes of 'Down on the Farm' 
• Make a shopping list together and go to the shops to buy the food. Look at the labels- where has the food travelled from - is it from the UK or somewhere else? 
• Grow some quick growing plants or make a cress head.
• Talk about healthy foods.
• Share and discuss the 'Big Idea' resource below (also attached as a PDF for clearer viewing). 

This week, we will be consolidating all the information we have found out about the wonderful world that we live in! We will ve revisiting all of our big ideas questions and key vocabulary. We will be setting up the classroom in the style of different countries. We will be making passports, boarding a pretend plane and checking in and experiencing different activities from all around the world! 

We will be watching and singing along to this lovely version of 'What a Wonderful World' 

We will be finding out about the Queen's Jubilee - 70 years on the throne! We will be making flags, crowns and some yummy treats to celebrate! 

Watch this lovely animation... After a sudden burst of wind in Buckingham Palace, the Queen's hat gets carried away around London. Fortunately, a trustworthy guard and a playful corgi run after it!

The children are wowing us applying their phonics skills to their reading and writing - keep up the super work little explorers!

Have a go at this game at home (the children love it in school) - you have to blend the word and see if it's treasure (real) or rubbish (nonsense word). Select phase 2 or 3 and the special friends your children know.

Phonics Play- Buried Treasure Game 

Here are a few speedy sounds lessons you could watch at home with sounds the children are finding particularly tricky.

• Speedy sounds - 'qu' (as is the Queen's Jubilee we will be reading and writing this sound lots this week! 
• Speedy sounds 'th' 

The children are trying so hard to spot special friends in their reading-here are some videos to show you how we teach reading to children called 'word time' which we do daily in our phonics sessions. 

• Word time- spotting special friends 

Here is a video showing how we spell words using our 'Fred Fingers', we use this strategy to help segment words to hear all the sounds and then pinch the sounds to help us match them to letters when writing.

• Word time- spelling and writing  

For our F1 children, have a listen to this Fred Talk game, helping children blend sounds together!

• Fred Talk - PARTY! 

We are continuing our White Rose topic on 'Find my Pattern', we will be focusing on sharing and grouping.

Check out this numberblocks episode, exploring patterns that make 10. 

We are continuing our 'Big Wide World' topic... We will be exploring how everyone around the world is unique and that is what makes the world such a special place! We will be sharing different stories that celebrate diversity and exploring different cultures and communities from around the world. 

Have a listen to this lovely book 'One World Together'- Where would you like to visit in the world?

We will be talking about how we are all wonderfully unique... Have a listen to this story, you could then have a go at one of the home learning challenges attached to the blog post below. As always, we'd love to see what you get up to on Tapestry or bring your creations into school.

The children are trying so hard with their reading and their writing, huge thank you for everyone supporting this at home. Check out these Read, Write, Inc videos to help children embed sounds they are finding particularly tricky.  This week it is special friends 'sh' and 'th'. Special friends are sets of letters that make one sound. In this case, two letters that make one sound. As always, we love seeing your reading at home and your lovely writing that comes into school!  

• Speedy sounds lesson - sh 
• Speedy sounds lesson - th 

Have a look at some of these writing ideas for children to apply their phonics skills at home.

For the children in F1, can you blend together what Fred is saying in this Fred talk video.

• Fred Talk - Feelings 

In Nursery next week, the children will be focusing on their voice sounds and the different sounds they can make. Here are some activities that you could try at home.

We are starting our White Rose topic on First, Then and Now and solving number problems (see Handa's surprise blog post for more information on White Rose topic breakdown).

Here are some ideas you could try at home linked to our topic.

This is also a great game, if the children are feeling up to a tricky problem-solving challenge!