Week 1 Term 2

Great to see everyone back and hear about some exciting times.
Straight back into a very busy term with swimming and netball to start the ball rolling.

• Swimming = Tuesdays and Thursdays
• Netball = Wednesday, Thursday & Friday this week and Monday & Wednesday next week. The interhouse netball tournament where we get to practise our new skills in fun games will be held on Wednesday 15th.

Please wear sports uniforms everyday and shoes suitable for netball. Back into school uniform on Friday 11th.

It was exciting at the end of last term to see how everyone had improved with their ABC skills of namimg letters, making the sound for each letter and being able to say a word that starts with the letter. Many people are also able to form all their letters correctly. Keep working on starting those tall letters from the top - still quite a number of people writing their letters from the bottom.

• Reading: Remember to read to and with together each night and record the reading in reading logs. Remember that the family dog or a soft toy are great to read to - books coming home should be easy enough for people to read without help.

A quote from some professional reading I have been doing this year:

READING ALOUD to children is the best way to help children DEVELOP WORD MASTERY AND GRAMMATICAL UNDERSTANDING, which forms the basis of learning how to read.

• Maths: Casey Caterpillar writes numbers sheet is in the homework book to help everyone practise accurate number formation.

Please remember that if you are worried about anything, the easiest way to get in touch is to email.

Enjoy this wonderful season of Autumn - we sure are doing this!

Looking forward to continuing to enjoy this learning journey with your children. Thank you all so much for your home support.