weekly news 26th June

This week we heard the story of ‘The Princess and the Pea’ and we were challenged to draw a picture of the sort of prince or princess that we would like to be. We have been enjoying our new fairytale castle role play area and have loved getting dressed up as characters who might live in a palace or castle.

In maths we have been practising ways of counting quickly by counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We sorted peas into groups of 2s, 5s and 10s and looked at number lines and 100 squares to try to recognise the patterns to help us when counting. I wonder whether your child can tell you whether it is quicker to count to 100 in 2s, 5s or 10s ? Can they explain why ?

Our trip to Gressenhall on Tuesday was absolutely fantastic ! Thank-you very much to all the parents who came and helped us !

Despite the unpredictable British weather we had a fun-packed imaginative adventure, in which we were asked by the Curator of Gressenhall Museum whether we could help him to find some very special artefacts which had been stolen by the Wicked Witch. We were all more than happy to help and we went on various quests with Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk ) Cinderella and the Curator in order to discover where the Wicked Witch had hidden the objects. Can your child remember where they found any of the special objects ? Where did they see:

 Cinderella’s glass slipper ?

Grumpy the dwarf’s boot ?

Puss in Boots’ sword ?

The pea from the story of The Princess and the pea ?

The mirror from the Snow White’s stepmother ?

The Troll’s bogey ?

The children enjoyed helping Cinderella to get all her chores done so that she could go to the Prince’s Ball and they had a very bumpy tractor ride around the farm where we saw all the King’s horses and Little Bo Peep’s sheep.

During next week we will be doing a final assessment of the children’s ability to read and blend sounds and tricky words. At the end of the term we will send home a copy of this assessment to inform you of the sounds and tricky words your child can confidently read so that you can keep practising them over the holidays in order that the children do not forget what they have learnt. We will also be passing a copy of your child’s assessment to their year 1 teacher. We will be collecting in your child’s tricky word tag nearer the end of the term.

We would love to hear from any parents who would be prepared to come into school to talk about their jobs in order to give the children an understanding of the very many varied careers that are possible. Please let us know via the office if you can come into school during the week commencing 15^th July. Thank you