Friday 2nd April

This week we had a wonderful trip to the Sea City Museum.  We learnt lots more facts and information about the Titanic and her crew.  Did you know that Titanic was taller than the clock tower in the photo!

We were really proud of the way that the children participated sensibly on the trip.

The children wrote some fabulous recounts of their trips on their return to school.

Money

After the Easter Holidays, we will be focussing on money in Maths.  The children usually find it quite hard to learn to identify coins as they don't have so much experience of coins with our ever increasing use of cards!
Over Easter please can you give your child opportunities to handle coins.
 Can they identify the value of each coin? Can you play shops and use coins to pay for objects. Try lining the coins up in order of value or sorting coins into groups so all of the 2p coins are together for example. 
Thank you!

Don’t forget to keep reading over the holidays to build your child’s confidence and fluency.  

Thank you! 

Phonics

This week in Phonics, we have been recapping the phase 5 sounds and tricky words that we have learnt so far.  

Please read the book allocated in your child’s reading log over the holidays.  

Maths

In Maths this week we have started to develop the children’s understanding of money.  We sequenced coins in order of value and used coins to buy biscuit toppings in order to decorate them.

R.E.

This week at school we have been learning how and why Christians celebrate Easter.  We started from the point of view of the children.  We introduced the concept of "sadness turning into happiness".  The children discussed times when they had been sad and the things that had made them happy again.  We then read the Easter story and discussed how Christians feel sad on Good Friday and then celebrate on Easter Sunday.

Plants

Next half term we will be learning about seeds and plants in science.  If you have any spare seeds, plants, pots or compost at home, we would really appreciate any donations. 

We hope that you have a lovely Easter break. Thank you for your support this term.




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