Week Beginning 23rd February 2026

What a busy but fantastic term it has been! The children have been amazing and we have been super impressed with all of their learning. We hot hat you have a lovely rest with your families during the half term break.

Please find below the project overview and home learning for our Dengineers project next term.

You will have received a Parent Mail to explain that next term, the children will be taking part in Forest Schools with Mr Dodd. Stour will be on Tuesdays and Bourne will be on Wednesdays.

Worship- Our worship theme this week is: Lent

English - The children will be starting a talk for writing unit based on 'The Three Little Pigs'.

Phonics - Next week, the children will be learning ie saying ee.

The parent information sheet can be found here: Parent Information Sheet

Maths - The children will be exploring counting in multiples of 10.

RE - We will be learning about what makes us happy and sad in preparation for our Easter Unit.

Home Learning:

My Maths, Numbots and Twinkl Phonics App log ins are stuck into the front of your child's Reading Record.  Please speak to your child's teacher if you need any support with any of these platforms.

Additional help with reading/phonics:

If you are wondering how you can provide general support for your child at home, our advice is to hear them read as often as possible. Please do not worry if your child brings home the same book from time to time- this is to gain confidence and fluency before moving onto different sounds in other books.

We also have an excellent link to some high quality texts that you may want to consider when choosing children’s books to read or buy!

Additional Maths:

By the end of Year 1, children are expected to:

• count forwards and backwards in ones to 100
• be able to count in 2s, 5s and 10s
• find one more and one less than a given number up to 100
• recognise the value of all coins
• know number bonds (numbers that add together) to total 10 and 20.

Messages:

It is really important to put children’s names in all their clothes, on packed lunch boxes, water bottles, coats etc- otherwise they do not go home with the correct child. We already have some unclaimed and unnamed items from this week. If you could all check that all items are named, we would really appreciate it. 

Please could water bottles be placed into a plastic bag in their school bag to protect school reading books. All water bottles must only contain water and NOT squash please. 

Please note, our fruit at school is delivered on a Monday, but sometimes later in the day. Please could you provide your child with a snack on a Monday to avoid them getting hungry if our fruit has not been delivered. 

Key Information and Dates:

Please wear PE kits on a Thursday.

Thank you for your continued support.

Have a great half term break!

Mr Parsons and Mrs Stoodley