Welcome Back!

We hope that you have all had a wonderful half term. This year seems to have flown by and we cannot believe we are getting ready for our final term of the academic year. What a fantastic topic we have planned for you :)

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Land Ahoy!

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Welcome back to Term 6- our final term of the year and definitely a busy one! Our final topic is called 'Land Ahoy!' a topic we are really excited about and one we are sure you will all enjoy! As part of our topic we will be naming coastal locations within the UK as well as understanding what a seaside is. We will be thinking about coastal and beach habitats within our science work and also recognising human and physical features of seaside settings in our Geography work. Further work will allow us to understand Seaside traditions and thinking about how these have shaped our seaside trips today. Also this term, Year 2 will be preparing for our end of year production called 'Pirates vs Mermaids' and thinking about transition from Year 1 to Year 2 and Year 2 to Year 3. Please keep an eye out for more information coming about these events. 

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Homework Tasks and Expectations:

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Reading

Please continue to read with your children as much as possible. We recommend short daily reading opportunities and regularly rereading familiar books. We do expect children re-reading the same book three times per week to help to build fluency and develop sight reading skills. It is also important to remember to ask simple questions as you go as this will help children's comprehension. These could be about what has just happened, how a character is feeling, why they choose to do something or what might happen next. It is also important to discuss new vocabulary with children. 

In Year 1, children will receive word bags and these will be updated as new words and sounds have been introduced. Please revisit these with your children regularly.

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Phonics

If your child finds phonics difficult, it is really important that they regularly recap the learnt phonemes from their phonic sessions in school (these will be shared on a regular basis). This helps children overlearn the phonemes and supports them in recognising the phoneme as graphemes which not only supports fluency in reading but is really important for writing too.

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                             Year 1 Homework Ideas                                              Year 2 Homework Ideas

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​​Homework Tasks:

To support your children's learning we have revised the way we set homework. You will see in the documents linked above here here indicate the compulsory expectations as well as provide simple activities that you can do at home to support your child's learning. These are set out as a menu of choice and the idea is that you can choose which task you tackle each week- but of course you can also revisit tasks in different ways if you would like to. There is no expectation that all tasks are completed, these are merely suggested activities that you can do to support your child's learning. As always there will be the suggestion of the topic projects that your child may wish to complete throughout the term linked to our Pole to Pole theme and if families in Year 2 want extension challenges there are also maths questions and reading comprehensions that you are welcome to print. We request that any homework children would like to share with us is done so through photos, videos or audio using the evidence me app. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to your child's class teacher.​

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For Year 2s extension work:

Maths questions:

Maths Challenge 1

Maths Challenge 2

Maths Challenge 3

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English comprehensions

Reading comprehension 1

Reading comprehension 2

Reading comprehension 3

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Useful Websites & Apps

 

Websites for additional learning opportunities:​​

Below is a list of useful websites that can support you and your family during this time:​

• Espresso Education

      username: student5731                        

      password: paulton​

• BBC Bitesize  

• Oak Academy 

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Websites that offer interactive games:

• ICT Games (Maths and English Games)

• Topmarks (Online Games)

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Websites for Reading Support:

• Oxford Owls (Online Reading Books)

      Children have individual log ins and passwords

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Useful Youtube Channels:

• Letters and Sounds Phonic Videos (Youtube Channel)

• Cosmic Kids Yoga (YouTube Channel) 

• Maddie Moate (Super Science Learning Videos and Opportunities)

 

Apps:

These are useful apps that we have used in school which we encourage you to use as required at home. Some of these are free but will need you to make an account whilst others are paid apps.

• Teach your monster to read

• Hairy Letters

• Scratch Junior

• Tux Paint

• Beebot

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If you discover something really useful that you think others might enjoy, please share with us so that we can share the links and information with our school community. Thank you for your continued support.