Happy Friday everybody - we hope you have had a fabulous week!
Parent/Teacher Consultations
You are now able to book an appointment to meet with your child's class teacher on Friday 22nd October, 8:30am to 3:30pm. Just as you did in the Summer Term, please use the Scopay app/website to secure your slot. This meeting will be via Zoom and a meeting link will be sent to you nearer the time.
Phase Group Emails
Please remember that we are always available to contact on our phase group email that we put at the bottom of our weekly blog. Your emails will be responded to as soon as possible but this may not be until the following working day if sent in the evening or on Monday if sent at the weekend.
If you wish to inform us of an absence, a medical appointment or a change in drop-off/collection arrangements, we ask that you contact the school office by text or email rather than our phase group emails as it is the office staff that will collect your child to take to the gate and, as you can imagine, we are unable to check our emails regularly during teaching hours.
Thank you for your support in this.
Maths Homework
This week we would like you to look at pages 14-15.
For Year 1's this is looking at counting on in different steps. Take some time looking at counting on in 2's and noting the difference between odd and even numbers. Look for patterns in the numbers when counting on in 5's and 10's. Discussing these patterns can really help them to "stick" in the children's minds and leads to a deeper understanding of the maths.
For Year 2's this is looking at partitioning numbers. This just means splitting a number up into 2 smaller numbers which make up the whole number. The children are most aware of how 38 = 30 + 8. But 38 can be partitioned in other ways e.g. 20 + 18 or 32 + 6. Ways to show this can be with resources grouped in tens and ones or creating annotations e.g.
Don't forget to keep up all your fantastic efforts with your reading at home - we are seeing a huge improvement with all the children who are doing their daily reading. We are still updating the Big Cat online library for your child as they move up reading levels, so don't forget to use this resource if it is useful to you.
