Tulip, Bluebell & Daffodil Blog - Friday 23rd May 2025

Happy Friday, everybody! Incredibly we find ourselves at Half Term and about to go into our last half term as Year 1's and Year 2's! We would like all the children to have a relaxing week off, so we are not sending homework books home this week but if you can keep up the reading little and often this will have a hugely positive effect on their progress.

We are also currently doing an inventory check on Guided Reading books so these have also not come home this week. Please keep an eye out for any Guided Reading books you may still have at home and bring these back after Half Term.

Upcoming Events

• Monday 2nd June - INSET Day (School Closed)
• Friday 6th June - Whole school trip to Barleylands (see here for the letter)
• Friday 13th June - PTA Father's Day Sale
• Friday 13th June - Father Day Tea at 3:15pm
• Friday 20th June - Sports Day

Have a wonderfully relaxing break!

Best wishes

Mr Jude, Mrs Yuille, Mrs Holmes & Miss Smith

Tulip, Bluebell & Daffodil Blog - Friday 16th May 2025

 Happy Friday, everybody! It has been a lovely summery week for everybody here in Key Stage 1. We have been doing all we can this week to support our Year 6's as they have risen admirably to the challenge of their SATs. As a result of some changes to our usual weekly timetable, we will not be sending home spellings or Guided Reading books this week.

Upcoming Events

• Friday 23rd May - Wellbeing Day
• Monday 2nd June - INSET Day (School Closed)
• Friday 6th June - Whole school trip to Barleylands (see here for the letter)
• Friday 13th June - PTA Father's Day Sale
• Friday 13th June - Father Day Tea at 3:15pm
• Friday 20th June - Sports Day

Maths Homework

This week, we would like you to look at pages 56 & 57.

For both Year Groups, this continues to look at the area of time.

Keep practicing these areas as outlined in the homework books and relate them as much as possible to your child's everyday life. We will leave the same links as before to help support this learning at home.

Months Game 1

Months Game 2

Time Games

Don't forget to keep reading at home and do the next page in your comprehension homework books.

Have a lovely weekend!

Best wishes

Mr Jude, Mrs Yuille, Mrs Holmes & Miss Smith

Tulip, Bluebell & Daffodil Blog - Friday 9th May 2025

 Happy Friday, everybody! We all enjoyed celebrating VE Day on Thursday this week, with all the children looking resplendent in red, white and blue! We have also been busy with our "Down At The Bottom Of The Garden" project in writing reports about garden birds in English and going on minibeast hunts in science!

Maths Homework

This week, we would like you to look at pages 54 & 55.

For both Year Groups, this is looking at the area of time.

For Year 1's this looks at days of the week and months of the year.. Being able to sequence the days of the week and the months of the year is an important area in time and underpin all the later work that we do going into Year 2. Think about the different things you do on certain days and the key events of the year and in which month they happen.

Months Game 1

Months Game 2

For Year 2's this looks at reading the time on analogue clocks. Read carefully through the page which explains this concept and be patient - time can be a very challenging area of the maths curriculum! There are lots of time games on the link below to help practice your clock reading skills:

Time Games

Don't forget to keep reading at home and do the next page in your comprehension homework books.

Have a lovely weekend!

Best wishes

Mr Jude, Mrs Yuille, Mrs Holmes & Miss Smith

Tulip, Bluebell & Daffodil Blog - Friday 2nd May 2025

 Happy Friday, everybody! It has been a very musical and mathematical day at school today with everyone enjoying Times Tables Rock Stars Day! The children looked amazing and enjoyed a special rock band assembly and took part in a range of times tables activities throughout the day!

Just a reminder that Thursday we will all being wearing red, white and blue to celebrate VE day - see the newsletter for more details.

Maths Homework

This week, we would like you to look at pages 52 & 53.

For Year 1's this looks at money. The use of coins in shopping is becoming less and less common in our everyday lives but it is still part of the curriculum for the children to recognise the different coins we have and use different combinations of coins to make amounts. Dig out your change drawer and practise making amounts and counting money. There are lots of games in the link below that support the concepts of money in Key Stage 1.

For Year 2's this continue to look at money. Again, keep exploring this concept practically using real coins but also using the games featured in the link below:

Money Games

Don't forget to keep reading at home and do the next page in your comprehension homework books.

Have a lovely weekend!

Best wishes

Mr Jude, Mrs Yuille, Mrs Holmes & Miss Smith

Tulip, Bluebell & Daffodil Blog - Friday 25th April 2025

 Happy Friday everybody and welcome to the Summer Term! It has been a busy 4 day week in Key Stage 1 with swimming starting and our Prostrike event today. We have also started thinking about our project "Down At The Bottom Of The Garden" by looking at different types of animals in the world around us.

Maths Homework

This week, we would like you to look at pages 50 & 51.

For Year 1's this continues to focus on volume. Continue to try some of the practical activities discussed last week - look at the volume of different bottles and cans around the house to compare and order them or use an egg cup to see how many cups it takes to fill different containers. Below is a game that builds upon this idea:

Bubble Bath Game

For Year 2's this focuses money. The use of coins in shopping is becoming less and less common in our everyday lives but it is still part of the curriculum for the children to recognise the different coins we have and use different combinations of coins to make amounts. Dig out your change drawer and practise making amounts and counting money or bribe incentivise your child to do jobs around the house for a set "wage." Below is a link to lots of games that support the concepts of money in Key Stage 1:

Money Games

Don't forget to keep reading at home and do the next page in your comprehension homework books.

Have a lovely weekend!

Best wishes

Mr Jude, Mrs Yuille, Mrs Holmes & Miss Smith

Tulip, Bluebell & Daffodil Blog - Friday 4th April 2025

  Happy Friday, everybody! Wow! We find ourselves at the end of the Spring Term! Everyone has worked so hard and achieved so much already this year. We are now looking forward to our last project of the year - "Down At The Bottom Of The Garden!" Have a look at our knowledge organiser to see the areas we will be covering in the Summer Term:

Down At The Bottom Of The Garden

Just a reminder that swimming starts for Key Stage 1 after Easter and our swimming day is on Thursdays. Please ensure that you have completed and returned the swimming experience slip from the letter that went home last week. This helps the swimming teachers organise the groups ready for the first lesson. Drop us a Dojo if you need another copy of this letter. 

We would like all the children to have a relaxing Easter Holiday, so we are not sending homework books home this week but if you can keep up the reading little and often with books you have at home or at the library this will have a hugely positive effect on their progress.

Have a wonderful Easter!

Much love

Mr Jude, Mrs Yuille, Mrs Holmes & Miss Smith

 

Tulip, Bluebell & Daffodil Blog - Friday 28th March 2025

 Happy Friday, everybody! We hope you enjoyed the chocolates this week - it has taken a lot of hard work to get to this finished spot - including some very tricky wrapping! We now know why Mr Wonka has Oompa Loompas to help him!

Amazingly we only have 1 week left of the Spring Term! Just a reminder that swimming starts for Key Stage 1 after Easter and our swimming day is on Thursdays. Please ensure that you have completed and returned the swimming experience slip from the letter that went home last week. This helps the swimming teachers organise the groups ready for the first lesson. Drop us a Dojo if you need another copy of this letter. 

Upcoming Events

Tuesday 1st April - Parent Consultation Evening

Wednesday 2nd April - Parent Consultation Evening

Friday 4th April - PTA Easter Egg Hunt/Wellbeing Day

Thursday 24th April - Swimming Starts!

Maths Homework

This week, we would like you to look at pages 48 & 49.

For Year 1's this focuses on volume. Many of the practical activities discussed around length and mass in previous blogs hold true here - look at the volume of different bottles and cans around the house to compare and order them or use an egg cup to see how many cups it takes to fill different containers. Below is a game that builds upon this idea:

Bubble Bath Game

For Year 2's this focuses on comparing measurements. This gives another opportunity to using greater than (>), less than (<) and equals (=) signs to compare amounts, ordering values and linking units of measure to length, mass and capacity. Below is a game to help read amounts on a labelled scale - start off with the simple challenges and build up to scales where not all the numbers are labelled:

Capacity Countdown

Don't forget to keep reading at home and do the next page in your comprehension homework books.

Have a great weekend!

Best wishes,

Mr Jude, Mrs Yuille, Mrs Holmes & Miss Smith