Whiteley Year one

  Friday 26th April If you have any spare seeds, flower pots, soil or plants that you could donate, we would be very grateful.  We are very short of plant pots and seeds. Many thanks! This week at school we have been focussing on our R.E. learning.  We learnt about the concept of "Precious".  We discussed things that are precious to us and also precious in our world.  We decided that water is the most precious thing on our planet as nothing can survive without it. We then learnt how water is precious to the Christian and Hindu faiths.  The Rev. Amy Adeniran the vicar from Hope Church in Whiteley visited us to explain how water is used in Christenings and Baptisms. English In English we thought about words that are used to describe water.  We read pyramid poems and wrote our own.  I n Art, w e made our own collaged water droplets. Phonics Please look out for the orange sheet in your child's book bag this week.  This is to support your child in becoming more confident in re

  Friday 19th April  Welcome back to school, we hope that you had a good break.  This half term at school we will be learning about plants and how they grow.    If you have any spare seeds, flower pots, soil or plants that you could donate, we would be very grateful. In Science this week we learnt about seeds.   We set up an investigation to find out how we could discover which items in our collection were seeds and which were not.  The children suggested planting each object to find out if it would grow. Phonics Please look out for the orange sheet in your child's book bag this week.  This is to support your child in becoming more confident in recalling and then blending the sounds that they have learnt at school so far.  In June your child will be doing the Statutory National Phonics screening check which checks their confidence in blending phonic sounds.  Please can you practise reading the real and "alien" words on the orange sheet with your child.  Encourage them to