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Mini Makery- Fun with Healthy Food- Workshop in School

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Mini Makery- Fun with Healthy Food- Workshop in School

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Thursday 6th March 2025- morning session

Please see letter sent via Seesaw for more information

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Reading books- please ensure your child brings their reading book and reading record to school everyday. It is important you read regularly with your child and record each time you have read in their reading record. If your child has read 4 or more times during the week, they will be entered into our Mystery Book draw!

Tuesday- On Tuesday mornings, Sparrows will take part in Forest School, Kitchen Garden or Art. This will alternate every two weeks. Please ensure your child is dressed in their forest school uniform with appropriate waterproofs.

Wednesday- PE- your child will leave their PE kit in school ready for PE days.

Friday- Celebration Award Assembly via Zoom. We will send you a message on Seesaw if your child has been selected for a work award. Children who have been working hard on Spelling Shed and Mathletics and have won awards will also have a special mention in assembly! We will also change reading books and library books on a Friday.

Homework will also be set on a Friday to be completed by the following Friday. Spelling and phonics practise will be set on Spelling Shed each week as well as Maths activities on Matheletics linked to the maths work we have completed in class.

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This links to our Science work on Plants as well as our DT work on Fruits and Vegetables and Cooking and Nutrition. We can't wait to share our learning with you very soon!

More information will be sent home soon!

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All the children will read with a teacher in a small guided reading group each week. They will be grouped with children reading at a similar level.

During these sessions, we work on fluency, comprehension and inference.

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Every child will take part in daily handwriting practise as well as weekly direct teaching sessions for handwriting. We will focus on different letter families as well as words and spellings.

Before the summer term, we will introduce leading lines to some children. This prepares the children ready for joining as they move into Year 2.

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Week 1 6th Jan (4 days)

Week 2 13th Jan

Week 3 20th Jan

Week 4 27th Jan

Week 5 3rd Feb

Week 6 10th Feb

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Units we will cover this term:

Addition within 20

Subtraction within 20

Numbers to 50

Introducing length and height

Introducing weight and volume

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Local Walk around Upton/Snacks in the Park

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Local Walk around Upton/Snacks in the Park

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Friday 14th March 2025-9:30-11:30

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Monday-Miss Ditchfield

Tuesday- Outdoor Learning Team (am)/Miss Ditchfield

Wednesday-Mrs Redmond (Mrs Hetherington for Music-am)

Thursday-Miss Ditchfield

Friday-Miss Ditchfield

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Dear families,

Welcome back to a brand new term in Sparrows! We have lots of exciting learning planned as well as fabulous trips out and wonderful workshops.

Please read through our class curriculum newsletter which outlines all the different areas of learning we will be working on. There is also information about how you can support your child's learning at home.

If you have any questions, please come and speak to us.

We can't wait to hear all about your half term adventures!

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The children will look at cities, villages and landmarks of UK/Chester/Upton. They will explore the question– What is it like where I live? and will look at features of our locality and homes, maps and fieldwork on our school grounds.

We will also go on a local walk around Upton where we will look for different physical and human features.

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The children will ask questions about where they live and will identify where they live on a map of the UK.

They will learn about physical and human features and identify these features within their local area of Upton.

The children will draw a simple map of Upton and will go on a local walk around Upton where we will look for different features.

We will look at simple compass direction to describe location and routes.

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We will also work on using leading lines with CVC and CVCC words.

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During our shared read sessions, the children are given daily opportunities to read new decodable words and common exception words.

As a class, we discuss the new vocabulary in the text and share the word meanings. As a class, we work together to find the answers to questions linked to the text and then record these answers. The children also have opportunities to work in pairs as well as independently.

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Your child will need your support at home to progress well in Phonics which will be an important part of their reading and spelling development.

You can do this by;

1. Reinforcing the sounds already introduced. We will post these regularly on Seesaw. Your child will also bring the phonics worksheets they complete at school home for further reinforcement.

2. Logging into Oxford Owls (see attached instructions) and reading the Floppy's Phonics books at home with your child to reinforce both new sounds introduced and previous ones they may still find tricky.

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Week 8 24th Feb

Week 9 3rd March

Week 10 10th March

Week 11 17th March

Week 12 24th March

Week 13 31st March

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We take part in 15 minute mastering number sessions four times a week as a whole class. These sessions are planned to develop the children's understanding of number.

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What is it like in Chester?

How does Chester compare to other places I know?

What makes Chester a special place?

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-1 decoable reading book sent home per week to match phonics level
-1 library book home per week to enjoy together
- practise phonics learned at school using Floppy's Phonics

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The children will write:

-Portal Narratives

-Information Texts

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The children will learn about different animal types and groups as well as the different animal diets. They will also compare different types of animals.

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Traditional Tales and Poems

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How can you join in an activity?

Why are you proud of you?

What are rules? Why should we follow them?

Where does money come from?

How can we keep money safe?

How can you look after the local environment?

Are you and your friends different?

Why do babies need care?

Tell me about different types of families Who can you ask for, for help?

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The children will explore the different seasons and some weather types in the UK and Chester. We will look at ways we can measure weather and different tools and equipment used to measure weather. The children will collect data about weather and will use symbols to create a key to help them understand types of weather. We will also look at different climates around the world as well as dangerous weather types.

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Can I identify and classify animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals?

Can I explain what an omnivore, carnivore and herbivore is, with an example of each?

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In this unit, we will look at the Gods and Goddesses in the Hindu faith. We will also find out about how and where Hindus worship.

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The children will design their own sock puppet and look at suitable materials for making a puppet. They will then make their own sock puppet, following their design and a design criteria. The children will cut fabric neatly with scissors and will learn how to use joining methods.

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-Using a basic range of tools within graphic editing software

-Taking and editing photographs

-Understanding how to create digital art using an online paint tool

-Searching and downloading images from the internet safely

- Learning how to operate a camera

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In this unit, children will use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of our school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environments. They will identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK and use and construct basic symbols in a key.

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Can I identify some weather types?

Do I know ways to record the weather?

Can I research and present data about the weather?

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We will recap the four seasons and will focus on seasonal changes in Spring. The children will compare the seasons based on weather patterns, the amount of daylight received and changes in plant and animal life. We will also make links to our local area during this unit.

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Can I use my observations and gathered recordings of the seasons across the year to identify key changes?

Can I preform a simple test with equipment to find out what happens to the length of the day?

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In this unit, the children will explore how their seeds have changed over time from when they planted them in Spring A. The children will also plant seeds again in spring and will compare the growth of these plants to the plants they grew in winter.

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1.4 KO Who are some Hindu Gods and how are they worshipped

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Can you apply skills and techniques learnt to a sequence?

Can you travel in different ways?

Can you hold a simple balance?

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Can I follow some design criteria?

Can I cut neatly and safely?

Can I use joining methods, justifying my choice?

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Can I take photos and edit them to change them?

Can I download and search for images?

Can I operate a camera?

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Can I describe the basic structure of a flowering plant?

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Can I talk respectfully about faith?

Can I show respect for the views of other people?

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Can I sing some songs by heart?

Can I recognise the sound and name of some instruments? Can I keep a beat and move to music?

Can I sing confidently at different pitches?

Can I make different sounds with my voice?

Can I name the notes of my instrument part?

Can I treat instruments with respect?

Can I clap and improvise?

Can I create a simple melody with 1,2,3 notes?

Can I make simple written recordings of my compositions? Can I perform and express my feelings about a performance?

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The children will carefully print with a variety of citrus fruits- creating beautiful details and textures. The printing will be used on the front covers of our smoothie project booklets.