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  Friday 10th July This will be the last blog of the year!  Thank you for all of your support in Year One this year. Please keep reading with your child over the summer holiday.  It would be great if you could take part in the Fareham Libraries Summer reading challenge. This is a great project to give your child a super experience of reading a wider range of books and really builds their confidence. https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/ The school reading challenge will continue over the summer.  Challenge cards can still be brought into school in September to exchange for badges and books. Sports Day The children will wear their P.E kits to school on the day of Sports Day with trainers or P.E shoes and socks. We will send P.E.kits home next week.  Please can you check your child’s trainers still fit them.  Please provide your child with a hat and water bottle and ensure you have applied sun cream before school. Thank you for your support. Science This wee...
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  Friday 3rd July The library will be closing for the summer stock take on Monday 6th July.  Please can you return any library books to school as soon as possible Fareham library do a fantastic summer reading challenge.  This year the theme is "Read to the Beat".  This is a really great way to build your child's confidence in reading over the summer. https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/ Reading Logs The children will be given new reading logs in September.  Please keep reading throughout the summer and adding to the reading challenge cards.  These can still be brought into school in September to exchange for badges and books. S cience This week at school, we have been focusing on our science learning and exploring forces. We investigated the forces needed to make bikes, scooters and balls and games equipment move, stop and change direction.  We explored how bigger pushes make vehicles and equipment travel further and recorded our ideas. You may like ...
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 Friday 26th June Its been a hot week at school but the children have been superstars coping with the heat.  We have enjoyed having our outdoor classroom in the woodland area in the shade. Geography Although our walk to the park was cancelled because of the heat we have used this to support our learning objective for how we can change our local park to make it better suited to extreme heat! We drew plans of the park that we would like to see. Reading Logs The children will be given new reading logs in September.  Please keep reading throughout the summer and adding to the reading challenge cards.  These can still be brought into school in September to exchange for badges and books.   Maths In Maths this week we have learnt how to find a quarter of shapes and amounts of objects.  We used bar models and part whole models to record our working. Science We started our science learning about how forces make things move. We described how pushes and pulls mov...
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Friday 15th June

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    Friday 19th June Trip to the park Next week, please can you ensure that your child wears comfortable shoes and brings a sunhat and a raincoat for their trip to the park . morning.  Please can you also apply sunscreen to your child before school. Monday 22nd June from 9 till 12pm - 1B Wednesday 24th June from 9 till 12pm - 1J Thursday 25th June from 9 till 12 pm - 1R Geography This week at school we have started our new Geography learning. We used Google maps to discuss the human and physical features in our local area and beyond.  We zoomed into our school from a world satellite map and discussed the features that we could see.  We identified our local park (Meadowside) on the map and looked at the route we needed to take to get there.  We drew our own maps of the route which we will follow next week to get to the park. English This week we drew our own story plan to help us to write our own version of Jack and the Beanstalk. We did a fantastic job of o...
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  Friday 12th June We are very short of volunteers to support us with our  Geography and Science fieldwork  when we walk to the park.  1B and 1R have not yet had any offers of help.   Please let your child's class teacher know if you are able to support this trip.   Monday 22nd June from 9 till 12pm - 1B Wednesday 24th June from 9 till 12pm - 1J Thursday 25th June from 9 till 12 pm - 1R Many thanks English This week we wrote captions to describe pictures from the Jack and the Beanstalk story.  We focused on using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces appropriately. This week we also drew our own story plan to help us to write our own version of Jack and the Beanstalk next week. National Phonic Screening Check The children completed their National Phonic Screening checks this week at school.  You will find out the outcome in your child's report in July. Maths In Maths this week we have been learning to use our number bonds to help...
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 Friday 5th June As part of our Geography map work and science learning next half term, we will be visiting the Meadowside Park in Whiteley.  We would appreciate any parent or grandparent volunteers who could accompany us.  Please let your child's class teacher know if you are able to support this trip.   Monday 22nd June from 9 till 12pm - 1B Wednesday 24th June from 9 till 12pm - 1J Thursday 25th June from 9 till 12 pm - 1R Many thanks Computing This week we are developing our keyboard skills when using the computers in the Key Stage 2 computer suite.  This week we learnt how to type our names using "Word".  We learnt how to create capital letter on the keyboard and use the space bar to make a space between our first name and surname.  Very few children knew how to spell their surname so this might be something you would like to practise at home.  Half the class will visit the computer suite each week. Design Technology This week at school ...
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 Friday 22nd May As part of our Geography map work and science learning next half term, we will be visiting the Meadowside Park in Whiteley.  We would appreciate any parent or grandparent volunteers who could accompany us.  Please let your child's class teacher know if you are able to support this trip.   Monday 22nd June from 9 till 12pm - 1B Wednesday 24th June from 9 till 12pm - 1J Thursday 25th June from 9 till 12 pm - 1R Many thanks Science This term we drew careful observational drawings of plants from around our school.  We discussed the parts of the plant (stem, roots, leaves and flower) and what they do to help the plant survive.  You can see some of 1J's drawings above. This week we revisited our science longitudinal study and looked at the animals in the pond.  We found out how the animals in the pond have changed now that spring is here. Phonics The National Phonics Screening check is only 2 weeks away now! We are nearly there! Thank y...
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