14th July 2014

Hi! Thank you to all of you who came and supported our Sports Day on Friday. It was a lovely afternoon, the sun was out and the children were fantastic! What more could we wish for!

After a wonderfully hardworking year, we have now reached the final full week of term, and we shall all certainly need the tissues out, even before we get to next Tuesday! It doesn't seem 5 minutes since we were saying 'hello' to the beginning of the new year, and here we are, already at the end of another successful year.

This last week is, just like any other, extremely busy, with lots to fit in, so here goes...

Literacy

We will be updating any final assessments, ready to pass up to the next class teacher, which will include a piece of writing.

In order for your child to continue to practise the skills that we have been learning this year, it would be helpful if you could continue to work on writing over the summer break. How about buying a new notebook for your child to complete a diary of their summer hols with some lovely illustrations of course! We would love to see the completed diaries in September!

Numeracy

All the children have now been assessed for their end of year checks, and what a fantastic lot they are too!
We are going to spend the last week, consolidating a few areas where the children would benefit from a little more practice, to enable them to really hit the ground running in September.
If you would like to support the children in beginning to learn times tables in preparation for Year 3, then that would be fantastic. Year 3 have a weekly times tables champion test – wouldn’t it be fantastic if they could have some children achieving the bronze award in September?

Year 1 children could also move onto practising their number bonds to 20 now and even pairs to 100! Imagine how quickly we are going to be able to move on with our curriculum in September if the children are confident with these before the end of the year?

Reports

You should have received your child's annual report on Friday.

We love to read your comments, so please do take 5 minutes to complete the reply form inside - they are appreciated.

If you have any outstanding library books or are gathering a collection of reading books at home, could we please ask that these are returned this week, so that we can review our stock levels, which are somewhat depleted at the moment! Under pillows and beds seem to be a favourite place for storing books at the moment!

Reminders

Sun cream

And finally, we are delighted to be able to request that children bring a hat and sun cream into school for the rest of the term! The weather has been absolutely beautiful and we are optimistic that it will continue, so it is important that our little ones are protected from the sun.

If you apply a layer before they come to school in the morning, this will last until lunchtime. It is also important that they are able to apply it themselves.

Thank you for your continued support.

Year 1/2 Team.