Happy Friday!

Another lovely week in Beech class this week.

The children have really started to settle and enjoy life at Crowmoor. A big well done to all of the children for coming in so well with the new ‘drop off’ system. Lots of happy smiley faces.

We have been super busy writing all about Little Red Riding Hood – all of the children have created fabulous shopping lists of things they would take to Granny to make her feel better. Lots of beautiful flowers and bars of chocolates .

In Maths, we have been organising, matching and sorting a variety of items in different groups. The keywords this week for maths are match, same and different. Ask your child to find things that match over the weekend – you’ll be surprised how many off socks they find!

In phonics, we now know s a t p i n d. The children are all trying super hard and both saying the phoneme and reading the graphemes. Please encourage your children to complete the letter formation sheets that are in their bags.

Please write in the reading diaries every time you get your child to share their wordless books with you. They know the patterns and how they work. Please encourage them to read over the weekend and at least 3 times per week. We will change the books next week.

If your child has come home in any of the school spares can you please get them back to us ASAP, we are running very low…. many many thanks 😊. 

HUGE WELL DONE TO … ELLIE!! Who is our golden certificate winner. She has shown some amazing writing skills this week, always shares with others and goes above and beyond to keep our classroom tidy! Thanks Ellie, big congrats!

Any concerns please email – beech@crowmoorschool.co.uk

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Shadbolt, Mrs Kenny and Mrs Millichamp 😊

So here it is the end of the Summer Term! The last few weeks have been so busy and gone so quickly I can barely believe it. The children have continued to make us proud right up to the end of term with their great attitude towards their reading, writing and maths and their behaviour at the assemblies and other events we have had recently.

We spent some time this week looking back at all they have learned and how much they have changed since starting in September. We hope you have enjoyed looking back at their English/Drawing Club books as much as we have. It’s so easy to forget where they started on their journey last year so always great to look back. We are so proud of them all, as I’m sure you are too.

Next week I will be closing down their Tapestry accounts so will generate the journals and a media file of photos and videos. A letter will be posted on here to explain how to do this and you will have a few weeks to do it so please don’t panic. Just let me know if you are having any issues with it. You can still contact me on the Beech class email beech@crowmoorschool.co.uk next week if needed.

Finally I just wanted to say a huge thank you to you all for all your support over the year, with your child’s learning, attending events and the many kind words that are passed on via the playground and email. Also for the lovely cards and gifts this week, so very kind and thoughtful and most appreciated. Thank you so much.

Although I will be in Year 2 in September, I will only be next door to the children in their new class and will see them on the playground and around school every day and will definitely be hearing how they are getting on.

I hope you all have a wonderful summer break (let’s hope the weather remembers it’s meant to be summer too!) and will look forward to seeing everyone in September.

Miss Jones

What a busy week! The children had a lovely morning on Monday meeting their new teacher Mrs Dowell. They wowed her with their maths skills and super attitude to writing and they were all very excited to tell me all about it when they came back after their lunch break.

Yesterday of course was our fabulous Bollywood dancing session. Thank you so much to everyone who came and joined in. It was a fantastic turnout and the children loved having you there. There will be a video posted to Tapestry shortly.

Today we have been practising all our Sports Day events ready for next week.
Don’t forget it starts at 9:15am on Thursday 13th July. Children should wear their PE kits that day. Keep your fingers crossed for dry weather!
Children will also need their PE kits on Wednesday for a final practice.

In Maths we have been doing lots of consolidation activities addressing some of the misconceptions from last weeks assessments. We have looked further into solving ‘how many more’ problems, missing number problems and revisited sharing equally and ‘grouping’ when we can’t move objects.

The children are continuing to have daily phonics sessions, focusing on building their confidence to read and spell longer words containing Phase 3 sounds. They are also consolidating their knowledge of reading and spelling Phase 4 tricky words. It is really important they continue to read as much as possible at home as well as with the adults and their reading buddies in school to help develop their confidence and fluency.
Please always record in their reading records when you read with them so they have the chance to pick a prize from the lucky dip box on Mondays.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Jones, Mrs Kenny & Miss Harrison