The water was beautifully warm on Friday, and the children thoroughly enjoyed their first swimming lesson in the Eastwick pool.  We are counting on the summer weather making an appearance over the next couple of weeks which will make it even more of a fantastic experience! 

Thank you to those of you who were able to come and watch the children at The Friend’s Going for Gold event on Thursday.  We are sure you will agree how much fun the children had and we felt very proud of how they embraced this new experience. 

Maths: In Maths we will be learning about ordinality (the order of numbers), cardinality (the number of items in a group) and counting. 

Literacy: We will read the story of The Hundred Decker Bus and look at maps of The Rural Life Museum to prepare for our trip.  Afterwards we will write about what we did and learned. 

Phonics: We will learn to read words with adjacent consonants and learn the tricky words said, so, have, and like. 

Vocabulary: bus/coach, rural, history, past, present, map, ordinality 

Maths:  Practice counting groups of objects of different number and say how many are in the group.  

Literacy: Write a list together of the things they need to bring to school for the trip on Wednesday. 

Vocabulary: Try to incorporate some of the week’s vocabulary into your conversations with the children. 

We are looking forward to our school trip on Wednesday.  Thank you to the volunteers who are coming to help.  We will advise you of what to expect and what to bring before Tuesday. 

We are not quite sure what the weather will hold but if it looks like a sunny day, please apply sunscreen to the children before they come into school.  It will help us to make a prompt start if everyone is in at 8.40am on Wednesday. 

 Please do have a look at home for any of the school reading books which need returning.  We are particularly keen to find our reading programme books which have the Harper Collins publishing logo and and the name ‘Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised’.  If books go missing from our packs of six it means that we can’t use that set until they have been located which then reduces the packs available for the children to read.  Please have a look under the bed, behind the couch or in the car and if you find any books, pop them into the children’s book bags for return.  Thank you! 

Please do make sure the children have a coat in school every day as the weather is so unpredictable at the moment.