Dear Parents,

This week's homework is as follows:

Spellings

The following spellings will be tested on Monday 23rd March:

school, echo, squeeze, freeze, ball

Phonics & Tricky Words

This week the children will be learning the following graphemes:

ch (as in Christmas)

ch (as in chef)

ze (as in breeze)

There are no new tricky words to be learnt this week.

Maths

Where possible, we would like the children to practise their number facts at home! They can use the following platforms to do so:

Hit the Button - This can be found here and is also available on to download on App Store or Google Play.

White Rose: 1 Minute Maths - This can be downloaded on both the App Store or Google Play.

On Hit the Button, we would like the children to strive towards fluency in the following areas:

• Number bonds → Up to 10 → Make 10 or Addition within 10
• Doubles → Doubles to 10
• Halves → Halves to 10

On 1 Minute Maths, we would like the children to practise the following objectives:

• 1 to 6 from the Addition section
• 1 to 6 from the Subtraction section
• 1 to 3 from the Multiplication section (counting in 2s, 5s and 10s)

We would like you to encourage your children to access these platforms on a regular basis.

Reading books

Please ensure you are reading regularly with your child at home to support their learning. We would appreciate it if you could write a brief comment in their reading record each time a home reading session has been completed.

PE lessons

Please note that the children's PE lessons will take place on Mondays and occasional Fridays during the Spring term.

The children will get changed into their PE kit in school and will come home wearing it. Please ensure that their kit is sent back into school by the following week.

Whole school poetry performance

During the final week of term, the children will be performing a poem to the rest of the school as part of a whole school poetry assembly. The poem is called 'Shockodile Crocodile' and we will be handing out the children's parts to learn this week.

Best wishes,

Mr Storer and Mrs Johnston