As we draw our topic to a close during our last week we will be thinking about Easter.

We will be revisiting all of the stories we have read over the past five weeks to see what the children can recall.

We will be seeing if the children can remember their super sounds. So there is no particular letter of the week this week. Instead we will be going on an Easter egg letter hunt to revisit and reinforce lots of their sounds.

This week the author himself will read our book of the week. We always like to use videos of real authors as they know exactly how they want their story to be read because they were the ones who wrote it! So here is the well known children's author Nick Sharratt reading one of his Daisy stories. This time she is SUPER DAISY!

We will be continuing to learn about real life superheroes to this week and we are going to watch a video all about being a police officer. The video gives the children a better insight into all of the different roles of a police officer- not just arresting bad guys. Our aim is to help the children enter into their own role play situations with a better chance of not getting themselves into a bit of bother! We will be leading their play for a short while so that we can show them how to make good choices when playing independently. Click here if you would like to watch the video with your child too.

So hopefully the week ahead will be the start of another new normal with all of the children returning to school as usual.

It has been amazing to see the joint efforts between school and home to ensure the children have still been learning and progressing during these difficult times. 

Our blog page will continue to show lots of the activities we will be doing at school as we still want you to be part of your child's learning and feel included. Home learning though is all bout you supporting the learning again rather than doing it at home each day.

However, in order get the  children back into a routine again could you return to supporting the children with their apps and weekly reading routines again.

For the F2 children in particular we would like to see them :-

Using their Doodlemaths app to keep within their green zone. This will help to reinforce all of the concepts we will have been teaching them at school.

Reading their weekly reading books at least three times and completing the supporting writing activities designed to reinforce the sounds and words that have been introduced in their reading books. The Reading Eggs app is an additional app that can help to reinforce their phonics and reading.

We can also return to posting achievements on Tapestry both at school and at home just to celebrate successes rather than as a means of communicating home learning. We really do value your posts from home.

Book bags should now be brought in again each day so they are available to us whenever we can catch a few moments to read with your child. They put these into their individual boxes which will prevent other children from coming into contact with them.

So what are we getting up to during the week ahead?

Watch our story for the week below