Well, we did it!
Year R have made it to the end of their first half term at school.
What a long half term too!
I’m sure your children have been very tired this week.
At school, they’ve still been trying really hard in their learning.
This week in letters and sounds we have been learning the sounds ‘h’, ‘b’ and ‘f”. We have been very impressed with the progress in letter formation, we can see a real improvement from the first few weeks. We also had some brilliant writing of CVC (3-letter) words too. This is a major leap of progress as it shows the children are applying their sounds and listening carefully to the order of where the sounds come in the beginning, middle and end of the words.
Thank you for practising this at home, it is clearly helping children to feel confident to ‘have a go’ at school. If you find your child says ‘I can’t do it’, please use our mantra of ‘don’t say no, have a go!’.
Please also remember to use your Bug Club subscription online and make the most of this fantastic reading opportunity.
After half term we will be launching our home learning pyramids in our home learning adventure books (shown at welcome meeting). Please keep an eye out for these in your book bags.
Thank you to all the parents who have sent in reply slips for our Staunton trip. Remember the deadline for this is Monday 2nd November. Thank you to those parents who have offered to help. If you can, please ask in the school office for a St Peter’s DBS check to be carried out. If you’re planning on helping more frequently, this will help as you will be able to take a group for us.
Just a reminder of autumn term dates:
- Tuesday 3rd November 10.20am – Liturgy
- Saturday 7th November (morning) – Ground Force Day
- Friday 13th November 9.00am-3.00pm – Trip to Staunton
- Friday 20th November 9.00am-11.30am – Walk to Waterlooville Library
- Thursday 26th November 9.00am-11.30am – Seahorse Class trip to Pizza Express.
- Tuesday 1st December 9.00am-11.30am – Walk to Sacred Heart Church
- Wednesday 9th December 9.30-10.30am – Year R Nativity
Please let your class teacher know if you are able to volunteer as a parent helper on any of these dates. Thank you in advance!