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The parent newsletter is sent out via Teams on Mondays. Please read this every week for the most recent updates on school sevents.

Wednesday 23rd September - School Photographs

Friday 25th September - MacMillan Coffee Afternoon

Half Term Break: Monday, 26th October 2026 – Friday, 6th November 2026

End of Term: Friday 18th December 12:30pm

Later on in the term, pupils will explore elementary features of persuasive writing in order to write letters. Finally, we will finish off the term with a poem and some poetry performing!

To support your child at home please can you :

• Support your child with writing simple sentences at home. Ensuring they are using capital letters and full stops as well as leaving appropriate spacing between the words.

• Support your child with retelling the class model text using the text map that will be posted on Teams.

• Ensure your child is forming their letters correctly as well as number digits. Daily handwriting practice will help with this.

In the second half of Autumn term, we will read Pugs of the Frozen North. Pugs of the Frozen North follows Shen and Sika as they travel across a frozen landscape with sixty-six pugs. They race through icy dangers, meet strange creatures and face challenges while trying to reach the North Pole and win the Great Northern Race.

To support your child at home please can you :

• Support your child with talking to them about the story.

• Use 'Epic' to read books about frozen places on earth. This website has lots of brilliant online books and even has a quiz at the end. This is not linked to the school but you can create your own free account at home. https://www.getepic.com/

Next half term, the children will learn various methods for adding and subtracting numbers within 100, both 1 and 2-digit numbers. Then the children will learn how to apply these skills to add coins and find change.

To support you child at home please can you:

• Use your child's Numbots login to practice their number skills.

• Visit https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button to practice counting and number skills.

To support your child at home please can you...

• carry out research on different types of materials and their properties. Go on a materials hunt in the home and list objects made from different materials (wood, plastic, glass and metal).

• Visit the local library, read books surrounding different materials, what things can you learn?

In RE we will be exploring Christianity and looking at the importance of being kind to one another. We will then move onto the importance of Christmas to Christians and the key events.

To support your child at home please can you:

• Please discuss that different people have different beliefs and this is something to be celebrated. Spend time talking about different cultures and religions and how they may relate to your own.

In outdoor PE the children will be taking part on playing hockey and developing their ball skill. They will focus on using their feet to control and move a range of balls.

Exploring how artists use tone and texture, and applying these techniques in observational drawings. The children will create their own pieces of work.

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Later on in the term the children will be building a rotating fairground wheel with a free-standing structure, this unit offers a simplified wheel design made from repurposed materials and an additional lesson where children design and conduct a survey to gather opinions.

To support you child at home please can you:

• Visit the Curve library in Slough to take place on the history trail.

• Carry out research on the school and look at pictures of how it has changed.

• What technologies have been developed.