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Friday 16th May 2025

Phonics Book - Filters: Year 1 Autumn 1 Week 5

This week was a review week and we will continue to review throughout Term 5 (no new sounds will be learnt until Term 6).

We have been reviewing:

se (like 'z') - please, cheese

ze (like 'z') - breeze, freeze

ere (like 'ear') - here, sphere

eer (like 'ear') - peer, deer

ti (like 'sh') - station, patient

mb (like 'm') - lamb, climb

gn (like 'n') - gnome, sign

kn (like 'n') - knee, knight

wr (like 'r') - write, wrap

ce (like 's') - dance, fence

se (like 's') - mouse, house

g (like 'j') - energy, giraffe

ge (like 'j') - barge, charge

dge (like 'j') - fudge, bridge

st (like 's') - listen, whistle

ear (like 'air') - bear, pear

are (like 'air') - care, share

ere (like 'air') - where, there

tch (like 'ch') - catch, stitch

or (like 'er') - work, worm, word

ear (like 'er') - search, pearl

oul - shoulder, boulder

ou (like 'oo') - soup, you

ve (like 'v') - have, give, move

ie (like 'ee') - shield, field

y (like 'i') - cygnet, sycamore

a (like ‘o’) – swan, swallow

o (like ‘oa’) – both, host

ch (like ‘sh’) – chef, machine

u (like ‘yoo’) – unicorn, uniform, music

u (like ‘oo’) – bush, full, put

ch (like ‘k’) – school, orchestra

ea (like ‘e’) – heather, meadow

a (like 'ai') - apricot, apron

eigh (like 'ai') - eight, sleigh, neighbour

ey (like 'ai') - grey, they

ea (like 'ai') - great, break

e (like 'ee') - we, he, she, me

y (like 'igh') - sky, my, fly, try

i (like 'igh') - tiger, wild, child

a (like 'ar') - father, fast, class, after

al (like 'ar') - balm, calm

augh (like 'or') - daughter, caught

ss (like 'sh') - mission, pressure

si (like 'zh') - illusion, confusion

ci (like 'sh') - special, precious

Fruit Skewers!

We learnt about keeping healthy in our PSHE lesson so we made some fun fruit skewers and ate them!

Check out our Easter Bonnets

Happy Mother's Day!

Book and Art Week

We had lots of fun during our 'biography' themed week. We made several different self-portraits, wrote a biography about Frida Kahlo, made a 'Little People, Big Dreams' inspired autobiography, learnt 'Roar' by Katy Perry and made up a dance to it and created some very colourful lions!

World Book Day

We had great fun dressing up for World Book Day! Check out our amazing outfits:

R.E. Day - Ramadan

We had a wonderful time learning all about the month of Ramadan and the things that Muslims do during this time. We all broke our fast together by eating dates and drinking water before we went to break, we thought about the things we were grateful for, we made prayer mats and paper lanterns to celebrate Eid, which celebrates the end of Ramadan.

Making Houses

We had great fun making houses out of cardboard boxes, we even added furniture!

Fantastic Friday

Year 6 came to read with us for one of our Fantastic Friday activities this term - it was great fun and we hope to do it again soon!

Village Walk

We went on a walk to see the different types of houses that we could see in our local area. We found bungalows, terraced houses, semi-detached houses and detached houses. We also spotted houses that used to be other things before people lived in them, like a Post Office and the old School!

Making Gingerbread Men

We had a lovely time making Gingerbread Men this week to support our learning about Instruction Writing in English!

Making Chapatis

In a few weeks, the Iman will be coming in to teach us all about Eid. In preparation for this, we have been thinking about Eid celebrations and traditional foods that might be eaten. Mrs Twynam helped us to make some chapatis with a raita dip - we loved trying some new food!

Butterflies Christmas Concert

Nativity

We were very lucky to be able to go to our local church to talk with Reverend Peter about the Nativity.

Forest School

We have had lots of fun with Mrs Caverly over in our Forest School!

R.E. Day - Christmas

We had a wonderful time during our R.E. day thinking about how Christians celebrate Christmas and if this is the same or different to how people who don't follow a religion celebrate Christmas. We learnt about the Nativity story, wrote letters to Santa, made Christmas cards, did some art for our local church and made some tree decorations. Mrs Ashmore also put on a Christingle workshop for us which we loved!

Mince Pies!

We had great fun with Mrs Twynam who helped us to make some mince pies over in the Little Hedgehogs kitchen!

Brogdale

We had a wonderful trip to Brogdale where Emma taught us all about the different fruit that they grow and how the seasons and weather affect the fruit growth. We got to eat lots of different varieties of apples from their orchard and also had a go at making apple juice! We played with the musical instruments and weather station and had fun in the afternoon with some weather-based craft activities.

STEM Week

We had such a wonderful STEM week and really enjoyed working around the theme of 'Time'. We did some timed challenges, looked at seasonal changes, played with the slow-mo features on the iPad cameras, experimented with sand timers and designed and made our own analogue clocks.

Fun Run

Northern Ireland

We learnt about Northern Ireland and sorted the physical and human features found there. We made The Giant's Causeway out of Lego and Duplo, collaged the Irish flag and coloured in shamrocks.

Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted

We had lots of fun bringing our teddies into school. We spoke to our friends about what our teddies were called and why they were special to us and then our friends could ask us questions about our teddies.

England

We learnt about England and sorted the natural and physical features found there. We made roses out of paper spirals, practised our cutting skills with London buses, collaged St George's flags and built bridges out of Lego and Duplo.

Wales

We learnt about Wales and sorted the physical and human features found there. We made dragons out of Play-Doh and Lego and decorated some beautiful yellow daffodils.

Scotland

We learnt about Scotland in Topic. We made tissue paper thistles, Loch Ness Monsters out of Play-Doh and collaged St Andrew's Flags.

Grandad's Island

We have been reading Grandad's Island in English. We did some hotseating where we pretended to be characters from the book and then answered questions from our friends as either Syd or Grandad.