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Monster Phonics are running webinars to support parents at home with phonics. The webinars will give you an overview of how we teacher phonics, the resources we use and how you can support your child at home.

Please see the links below. Click on the date that is suitable for you and sign…

We have been learning around the story of The Gruffalo today! We have enjoyed reading and joining in with the story! We used a story map to retell the story and we also read words and sentences that we matched to our story map. We have enjoyed playing in the Gruffalo woodland cafe and serving…

Nursery have been working hard on developing their fine motor skills through activities like using the tweezers! This is all going to help us develop amazing pencil control.

White Rose Maths have just released a free maths app for Year 1 and Year 2 children. The app has 1 minute games aimed to help children with the basic maths skills. I've had a go at the app and it's easy to use. It will support children's learning in school brilliantly so please download it and let…

Today Year 1 have been recalling number bonds to 10 and 20 by making and writing them. We had a competition to write as many calculations as we could but they only counted if they had numbers the correct way around and an equals sign. 
 

Year 1 will be working on different methods for addition…

Today we explored the composition of 5! We threw the five beanbags and then counted or subitised how many landed in the hoop and how many landed outside the hoop. We recorded what happened using pictures and numerals. We looked at the total and found it was still 5!

Reception have been learning about the oo sound with cool blue in phonics this week. We have been reading words and sentences with the oo sound, writing words with the oo sound and we read Jack and the Beanstalk with lots of words with the oo sound in too. 
We have also been read tricky words…

We looked at fair trade on this video...

We found a huge penguin in class one this morning! He delivered a story called Lost and Found. We read it and found out that the penguin wanted to make new friends! We have created our own penguins today using pastels and paint. We have been founding out about king penguins in the South Pole and…

This week we will be learning:

ir for bird and birthday

ue  for clue and blue

ue for Tuesday 

ew for stew and new

There are lots of games for these sounds on Education City for you to play at home.

Today we tried our first in school reading time. Key stage 2 used the hall, classrooms, library and field to spread out and enjoy reading. Feel free to bring in books, comics or magazines to read during this time every week.

Today we tried our first in school reading time. Key stage 2 used the hall, classrooms, library and field to spread out and enjoy reading. Feel free to bring in books, comics or magazines to read during this time every week.