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Tuesday 28th April - SEND Coffee Morning in the church @ 10am

Wednesday 29th April Year 1 visit to Mary Arden's Farm

Monday 4th May - BANK HOLIDAY - school closed

Thursday 7th May - Class Photos

Wednesday 13th May - Circus Skills @ school (whole school)

Monday 25th May to Friday 29th May - HALF TERM

Monday 1st June - STAFF TRAINING DAY - school closed

Tuesday 2nd June - back to school!

Monday 15th June to Friday 19th June - ART WEEK!

Friday 19th June - Father's Day Breakfast @ 8am

Tuesday 23rd June - Non-Uniform Day

Friday 26th June - PTA Summer Fayre - TBC

Tuesday 30th June - SEND Coffee Morning in the church @ 10am

Thursday 2nd July - Reports out to parents

Friday 3rd July - Sports Day!

Wednesday 3rd July - Transition Morning

Monday 13th July - PTA Disco @ 4pm

Friday 17th July - Finish for the Summer Holidays!

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When working on arrays, it is important that children understand the difference between columns and rows and are exposed to arrays that look different but give the same total. For example, an array with 2 rows and 3 columns will look different to an array that has 3 rows and 2 columns but will both give a total of 6.
We'll ask questions such as:
What do we mean by row / column?
Can you build an array using the equal groups shown?
How many rows / columns?
Can you write a number sentence to represent the array?

The children will build on their previous knowledge of doubling describing it as 2 equal groups rather than just ‘doubling the same amount’.

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Teach year 1 children how to make and understand arrays, with children building arrays that represent the equal groups in rows and columns.

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We hope you had a lovely Easter break!

Our phonics focus this half term using our Little Wandle scheme will be phonics screening check revision. This week it's:

ie pie

i-e time

o go

o-e home

The tricky words for the week will be were, one, says, here, today.

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Our PE days will be Wednesday afternoons

(tennis), and Friday afternoons (athletics).

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Continuing with the unit on multiplication and division, we will be :

Making arrays

Making doubles

Making equal groups - grouping

Making equal groups - sharing

The key vocabulary will be the same as mentioned in the last post.

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We've been thrilled to hear some children say 'I remember that sound, I practiced last night'. Thank you SO much for your support.

For the beginning of the summer term,

This half term , it's phonics screening check revision.

This week:

ay - play

a-e - shake

ea - each

e - he

No new tricky words.

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We will begin our unit on multiplication and division. We will start by teaching counting in 2's, 5's and 10's and then move on to recognising and adding equal groups.

Key vocabulary for this unit ( to be continued in the summer term):
Numbers 1- 50, multiplication, multiply, multiplied by, multiple, division, dividing, grouping, sharing, doubling, halving, array, number patterns, groups, lots of, groups of, total, 2s, 5s, 10s, number sentence, repeated addition, equal, unequal.

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This week will be a revisit and review week:

igh/ ie/ i /i-e

ai/ ay /a /a-e

oa/ oa/ o/ o-e

ee/ e/ ie /e-e/ ea

yoo/ ew /u-e /u /ue

Tricky words review :

house, mouse, water, once, they, pure, sure, could, would, should, our, some, come, love,your, people, there, oh, Mr, Mrs, Ms, ask, were, there, little, here, today, one, their,when what here.

We will also be doing our half termly assessment.

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This week we'll be looking at full/empty, volume and capacity.

Can we appeal for empty containers to be brought into school (plastic bottles etc) for the children to use, please?

This is always fun to do at home, especially at bath time. Play helps a lot!

A few things to look out for:

They may believe that different shapes or sizes of containers must have different capacities or that a taller container must have a greater capacity than a shorter one, regardless of width.

When comparing volumes in different-sized containers, the children may believe that if the water level is higher up the container, then the volume of water must be greater.

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This week our sounds are:

/ee/ e-e these

/oo/ /yoo/ ew chew new

/ee/ ie shield

/or/ aw claw

Our tricky words will be: house, mouse, water, want

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Please have a go at these games at home.

Specifically Dragon's Den, Picnic on Pluto and Buried Treasure.

Your Year 1 child will be asked to read both REAL words and ALIEN (nonsense) words as part of the Phonics Screening Test in June.

We are practising these in school, but extra practice at home will really help build your child’s confidence.

Children often try to turn letters into a real word that makes sense. However, the Phonics Screening Test is designed to check their ability to blend sounds together, so some of the words will be nonsense words that they simply need to sound out and read.

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A site packed with interactive phonics games, phonics planning, assessment ideas and many teaching ideas and resources to help children to learn to hear phonemes, recognise graphemes and develop the blending and segmenting skills that are vital for learning to read and spell.

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The children will be covering work on heavier and lighter and comparing and measuring mass.

Things to look out for :

They may think that larger objects are always heavier.

They may find it difficult to balance objects exactly. If an object does not balance exactly, encourage them to use the closest number or to try a different non-standard unit.

Another busy week ahead for them!

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We've reviewed and assessed their phonics. They're all making such great progress !

This week it'll be:

/ur/ ir bird

/igh/ ie pie

/oo/ /yoo/ ue blue rescue

/yoo/ u unicorn

Our tricky words will be: their, people, oh, your

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Year 1 visit tomorrow (26.02.26).

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We will estimate on  number lines to 50 and the children will build on previous knowledge of finding one more and one less of numbers to 20 to find one more and one less than numbers up to 50.

We will also be continuing our work on measurements ( see w/c 23.02.26).

Thanks again for your support.

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March already !!!

This week, we'll be practicing er, oo, oo, ai, ee, igh, ay, ou, oy, ee,ea,ear and air.

Tricky words for the week will be:

all, are, I, of, one, here, today.

Have a good weekend.

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Our new sounds will be /ai/ ay, /ow/ou, /oi/oy, and /ee/ ea.

Tricky words will be said, says, you, do, like, little, push, put, pull and full.

Hope you've all had a lovely break!

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Oak's visit tomorrow 12.02.26

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We will be covering measurements this week, comparing lengths and heights and measuring using objects. We will be introducing centimetres.

Key vocabulary for this unit :

length, height, width, depth, long, short, tall, high, low, wide, narrow, thick, thin, longer, shorter, taller, higher … and so on, longest, shortest, tallest, highest, far, near, close, ruler, metre stick, centimetre, metre

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Phonics Screening Check information for parents and carers

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Phonics Screening Check information for parents and carers

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Please see the presentation above for information about the Phonics Screening Check in June and ways to help your child. You can also find useful resources on our website via this link. https://www.allsaintsemscotefederation.co.uk/page/?title=Phonics&pid=154

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What is the Phonics Screening Check - Parent Information

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To work in partnership with families, we’re sharing simple guidance on healthy lunchboxes and foods that are safer for our youngest pupils. Please open the above document to see all pages.

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Library book change tomorrow - Thursday 5th February.

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The children will be exploring addition and subtraction fact families for numbers within 20 and using their skills, solve various problems involving missing numbers.

The children will be counting forwards and backwards between 20 and 50. They should be able to confidently identify the number that comes before/ after and use their knowledge of place value and patterns when counting to help them.

When the children are secure counting within 50, they will explore multiples of 10 within 50.

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It's ck, nk, ng, qu, th, ch, sh from phase 2 and or, ee, oa, oi, er, er, oo, oo, ai, ar, ur, ow, ear, air and igh from phase 3.

The tricky words are:

are, pure, sure, here, little, says, was, do, were.

Keep going , they're doing a grand job!

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Again, we are continuing with ck, nk, ng, qu, th, ch, sh from phase 2 and or, ee, oa, oi, er, er, oo, oo, ai, ar, ur, ow, ear, air and igh from phase 3. Air and ear are trigraphs the children are still finding hard to recognise.

Our tricky words are out and today and we will assess the children on their learning so far this term later in the week.

We're noticing a huge difference in confidence with your children. Home support is helping so much, thank you.

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We will be subtracting this week using number bonds,counting back and finding the difference.

We will ask questions such as:

How many were first? What happened then?

How many subtracted? How many taken away?

How many now? How did you do this?
What is the calculation?

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Library book change tomorrow- Thursday 29th January for Year 1.

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Bit of a long post, sorry!

The key vocabulary we will be using for this 3 week addition and subtraction unit is:

Numbers 1- 20, ones, tens, digit, addition, add, more, and, make, sum, total, altogether, first, then, now, subtract, equals, take away, bonds, part-whole, number frames, number line, ten frames, counters. one more, two more … ten more, Double, near double, how many more to make …? how many more is … than …? take away, how many are left/left over? how many have gone? ... less? how many fewer is … than …? difference between, equals, is the same as, number bonds/pairs.

Next week, we will be working on

Number bonds to 20 e.g How many red counters? How many blue?
How many counters altogether?
Can this be represented in a different way?
What number bond can we see?
___ + ___  = ___ and ___ + ___  = ___

Doubles e.g. What is double ? Double is ... _ is double , What number sentence represent double ?
A bit long winded! Promise it will be shorter next week. Have a good weekend.

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We are continuing with ck, nk, ng, qu, th, ch, sh from phase 2 and or, ee, oa, oi, er, er, oo, oo, ai, ar, ur, ow, ear, air and igh from phase 3.

Our new tricky words will be :

out and today. We are reviewing to, into, all, are, they, we, he, she, me, one , says, there, when, what, one

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As mentioned in English, the next two weeks will be focused around Peter and the Wolf. These books (The Story Orchestra) are magical and a great way of broadening the children's classical music knowledge. Our music learning will be to:

-Identify instruments that represent the main characters from Peter and the Wolf.   - Describe how music illustrates emotions.

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Jessica Courtney Tickle (Author, Illustrator)

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The Story Orchestra: Peter and the Wolf: Press the note to hear Prokofiev’s music (9)

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The Story Orchestra: Peter and the Wolf: Press the note to hear Prokofiev’s music (9) : Tickle, Jessica Courtney, Tickle, Jessica Courtney: Amazon.co.uk: Books

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Over the next couple of weeks, Year 1 will be retelling the story - Peter and the Wolf. We will be making links with our music knowledge and comparing/contrasting this Russian tale to the European tale- Little Red Riding Hood.

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Just a quick ask, please can you help your child learn their lines for our class assemblies over the next couple weeks. Words will be coming home on Thursday for Chestnut class- you will find them tucked in homework books for safe keeping.

Oak class assembly lines will come home the following week...

As always, parents are very welcome to come and hear all about our year 1 learning!

Chestnut Assembly- 30th January

Oak Assembly-5th February

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Key vocabulary for place value which we use at school:

Numbers 0 - 20, numeral, how many, forwards, backwards, count, representation, objects, items, part-whole model, number line, larger, smaller, numerals, groups, tens, ones, partition, addition, calculate, pattern, odd, even , number line, interval, half-way point, start number, end number, greater than, less than, equal to.

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We will be using a number line to 20 and then estimating by hiding parts of the number line and pointing to an interval line. The children must identify the number and explain how they know.

We will investigate groups of objects, then groups of numbers and then compare. We will ask the children questions such as:
How can you order the groups?

How can you work out which is the largest/smallest? What is happening to the numbers when we order from largest to smallest? How is your drawing different to your partners? Can you describe the order using largest and smallest?

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Yesterday the children had a visit from Claire from the Myton Hospices who challenged the children to raise some funds to support their valuable work.

Your child will bring home an envelope with information, should they wish to participate.

For further information please contact Claire McDowell, Community Fundraiser and Front of House Lead, Telephone 024 76841908

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The school library is now up and running. The children will be taken to exchange their book each week on THURSDAY.

We will keep a record of all the books borrowed and the date they were returned to the library. We are unable to give a new book until the old one has been returned.

The children can keep their books at home until library day , so they can enjoy them at their leisure.

As the children only took their books out on Monday, their first exchange will not be until next THURSDAY 22ND JANUARY.

Thanks for your understanding.

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Again, we will be continuing with our revision of ck, nk, ng, qu, th, ch, sh from phase 2 and or, ee, oa, oi, er, er, oo, oo, ai, ar, ur, ow, ear, air and igh from phase 3.

Our new tricky words will be :

were, here, little, says, there, when, what and one.

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A few parents have asked for the list of common exception words for Year 1. Hope this helps!

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The Year 1 Team were very touched by your lovely messages and thoughtful gifts at Christmas . We hope you all had some special family time.

The children have come back full of beans and very happy and settled. It's great to see them all again.

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We follow the Jigsaw RE scheme. This half term, we'll be looking at why Shabbat is important to Jewish children.

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Lots of colour mixing this half term! Primary and secondary colours, light and dark and finally producing art based on the work of Kandinsky.

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We'll be looking at farms and their importance. Types of farming and the features of a farm will also be covered.

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For the next few weeks we will be revising ck, nk, ng, qu, th, ch, sh from phase 2 and or, ee, oa, oi, er, er, oo, oo, ai, ar, ur, ow, ear, air and igh from phase 3. It seems a lot, however this is just revision and consolidation.

The children will be introduced to new tricky words:

said, so, have, like, some, come, love, do, were,here and little.

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Happy New Year !

We've been working on numbers to 20 and will be continuing our work on this by developing an understanding of those numbers, asking questions such as:

How do we write 16 in words? Can you draw it?
Can you build 17 using different equipment?
How many different ways can you make 14 ?
Is 18 greater or less than 15?

Towards the end of the week we will be introducing a number line. The type of questions asked are as follows:

What is the start number? end number?
What do we count up in?

What’s the same / different about the number line?
Which numbers are greater/ less/ between?

Have a good week!

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We've been really thrilled with how hard the children are working with their phonics. We'll be revisiting all of the tricky words mentioned in previous posts this half term, and a bit of extra oi, oa, ow (as in owl) and ur for good measure! After Christmas we'll begin our new block of learning.

In the new year, Mrs Stephenson will be holding an information evening , explaining the statutory KS1 phonics' assessments in Year 1 .

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In between church, Christmas lunches, Christmas parties, making Christingles etc., we will begin work on 3D and 2D shape, asking questions such as:

What makes a shape 3-D?

What 3-D shapes can you see in the classroom?

What is the name of this 3-D shape?

Can you think of any everyday objects that are cones/cubes/cylinders?

Do all cuboids look the same as each other? How are they different? Take two different cylinders. What’s the same about them? What’s different about them?

The activities will be very practical. A couple of games of shape bingo are always good fun too!

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Design Technology (DT) - Moving Pictures 

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Design Technology (DT) - Moving Pictures 

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In DT we have been been creating moving mechanisms such as sliding mechanisms, levers and wheel mechanisms.

The wheel mechanism was divided into the 4 seasons which we then made into calendars ,bought by many families at the Christmas Fayre!

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Just noticed the time the phonics' information appeared last week ( or rather this week)! Sorry, I'd obviously entered the wrong date.

At the end of each 5 week block, we assess the children's progress in phonics. Whilst assessing, we will still be still be teaching the sounds that the children are not quite as confident with.

The children are still finding air and ear tricky, and nk and ng.

We have been really impressed with their blending of longer words. Don't ask me why, but they were so excited that they could recognise the word mammoth! It really tickled them.

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The children will focus on adding and subtracting 2 from a number within 10. They will use their knowledge of addition and subtraction taught within the block to help them calculate their answer. Children should understand adding 2 is the same as adding 1 twice, similarly with subtraction.

We will be asking questions such as:

What is ___ + 1 … + 2 ?
What is ___ – 1 … – 2 ?
What method did you use and why?

Towards the end of the week, we will be doing a very informal whole class assessment.

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This week, it's:

oi, er

or,ur

air, oo (as in boots)

ow (as in owl)

We'll be focusing upon longer words

(such as marching, waiting, garden) and our tricky words to read and spell are they, all, by, my, are, pure, sure.

The children are really doing well and it's been lovely to watch expressions and smiles when things 'click'.

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For our Chris-Maths this week ( sorry, couldn't resist), we will be continuing our work on subtraction using a number line. When using the number line, ask questions such as :

What number do we start with?

How many jumps back do we need to take?

Which number do we count back from ?

Have a lovely weekend. Lots of decorations going up I'm sure!

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Comparing different texts by the same author.

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Comparing different texts by the same author.

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We have already started to enjoy a variety of texts by the author Sam Usher. There are so many opportunities for discussion and observation within these stories. Many of the stories can be listened to on Youtube.

Free by Sam Usher has been this weeks focus and will be continued next week too. Our learning focus is to write letters to Sam the author about his work, ask him a question and inform him which story each child likes the best and why?

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27th November will be an exciting day at Emscote because we have booked a special golf experience day through the Central Warwickshire School Sports Partnership.

Each class will receive 40 mins of golf engagement playing on Ignite Golf's custom built 6 hole course.

It's really important for the children to be exposed to playing new sports from an early age and you never know, the next Lee Westwood might be discovered at Emscote!

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Many of the year 1 children have a real love for junk modelling! Please can you help us to keep our recycling resource boxes replenished daily. Lots of interesting shapes and materials please and nothing too large as smaller 'junk' is much easier for the children to create and build with...

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Our graphemes are:

ur, igh

oa, ow (as in towel)

oo (as in zoom), ai

ar, ear

We will look at some compound words e.g. roof/top, farm/yard and at words ending in ing. He, be, me, we, was, you, they, all , are this week's tricky words.

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We will be continuing our work on fact families e.g.

9=4+5
4 + 5 = 9
5 + 4 = 9
9 = 5 + 4

9 – 4 = 5
9 – 5 = 4
4 = 9 – 5
5 = 9 – 4

This will then be followed by subtraction, using the words take away and we will be crossing out objects. When the children have grasped this concept, we will begin to record their own number sentences using the - symbol.

Thank you for your support !

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A few tweaks to our weekly timetable for this half term.

PE days are still Wednesdays & Fridays.

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We will be introducing the children to the symbol for subtraction and recording the number sentences using the part, part whole model, asking questions such as

If the whole is __, what are the parts?
What is the other part?

This will be developed by consolidating fact families e.g.

5 – 3 = 2
2 = 5 – 3

Some of the vocabulary we will be using is ; total, altogether, first, then, now, subtract, equals, take away, minus, part, whole.

Have a lovely weekend - hopefully it won't be too wet!

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I can't believe it's week 3 already!

We're revisiting and reviewing:

ar , ee

oo ( as in book) , air

ow (as in powder), or

oo (as in room)

Our tricky words will be no, of, to, into, she, he, we.

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Please remember to send your child into school wearing appropriate PE kit on a Monday and a Wednesday. They now need tracksuit bottoms/ leggings and their school jumpers/ cardigans. Thank you

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Diwali card designs

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Seasons learning

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Sorting materials

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Materials and their properties focus

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Warm up exercises

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Diwali celebrated with chapatti making and tasting! 

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Diwali celebrated with chapatti making and tasting! 

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Our History focus for this half term is centred around Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot. The children have already been super interested in the story and remembering some of the key facts.

The BBC Bitesize link below was shared at story time:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6qhtrd#:~:text=The%20Gunpowder%20Plot%20was%20a%20plot%20by,under%20Parliament%20*%20Guy%20Fawkes%20being%20arrested

We would love for the children to extend their interest and have further discussions at home. Any extra learning completed, please share with us at school. We were really pleased with how much information the children have retained- its clearly an exciting topic!

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Our English learning next week will focus on vocabulary linked to celebrating Remembrance Day and what we would like to ask a veteran soldier if the opportunity arose. Question words have been introduced so it is an excellent way of consolidating this learning and finding out about real life experiences from our past.

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We'd like to give each child the opportunity to have a traditional sparkler to celebrate Bonfire Night on 5th November. We've discussed firework and sparkler safety with the children both in class and assembly. The children will be supervised at all times. Please could you send your children into school with gloves so they can participate in this fun, traditional activity. We plan to do this on Wednesday 5th November.

Thank you!

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They've all returned to school full of beans and refreshed. Lovely.

The children will progress from counting all to counting on; we'll ask questions such as How many did we start with? How many have we added? How many now?

They will be given simple addition problems and then be taught how to use their knowledge of simple addition problems to find a missing part, for example If one part is 3 the other part is 7.

3 + ?=7

Thanks again!

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Our lesson focus will be

er, air

double letters (tt, zz, ff, mm, gg - as in Tigger, couldn't resist)

longer words (chatter, rubbish )

The tricky words will be full, push, and, go, no, of.

Thank you all. We really value your support.

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Emscote Infant School Half Term Reading Challenge Event!

We are in the process of updating our library in school. To coincide with this and to encourage young readers, we have a half term competition to win prizes!

All you need to do is to go down to your local library – you can take part in one of their events or borrow a book. It’s that easy and will cost you nothing!

On Monday 27th October at 10.30-11.30 Warwick Library are having a Green Halloween Event!  Also, every Saturday the library has a Lego Club from 10-12 for 4-11 years olds.

Please take a photo of you at the library with the subject line ‘Reading Challenge’ and send it to:

admin2332@we-learn.com

We look forward to seeing your photos!

Click this link for more information about events at your local library.

https://library.warwickshire.gov.uk/library-events

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After half term, we will be teaching:

Systematic number bonds e.g. 5 + 0 = 5, 4 + 1 = 5, 3 + 2 = 5, etc.

Number bonds to 10 (the children children will represent this in a number sentence e.g. 6 + 4 = 10 and 10 = 6 + 4)

Exploring addition together, reminding them that 2 parts make a whole.

There are lots of fun activities you can do on walks during the break, such as counting , sorting, spotting patterns and making patterns with acorns, conkers, different leaves etc.

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When the children return from their half term break , we will be focusing on 3 graphemes each session;

ai, ee, igh,

oa, oo (as in boot), ar,

or, ur, oo (as in took)

ow (as in down), oi, ear)

Have a brilliant week with your children. They've all done so well this half term. Thank you for supporting them (and us).