AWARDS

Well done to our award winners this week!                                                                

Phonics

The children are settling well to phase 3 phonic sounds and  have enjoyed the learning the new sounds. Please keep sending in on Seesaw examples of the children practising their new sounds at home. They have had the chance to applying the new sounds in a word or as a part of a sentence. 

We have reviewed our terms learning and completed our phonics assessment this week.

Reading

Please remember to read regularly with your child. This term especially is important as we delve deeper into their phonetic knowledge for building reading and comprehension skills.

Also please can you ensure only one key ring is hanging from your child's book bag. This will help us fit them in the class box. Thank you.

Please send into school the reading book and reading record book each day as we hear the children read aswell. We change the books twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays. Books will only be changed if the reading record has been written in. If you have any questions please ask.

Book Fair Poster Competition Winners

Thank you to everyone who entered our book fair poster competition. There were lots of fantastic posters from every class which made it a very tricky decision.

The winners, who will receive a £5 voucher for the fair are:

Reception: Louie L YAY!!!!!!!

Year 1: Elsie

Year 2: Wilbur

Year 3: Taliah

Year 4: Elliott

Year 5: Oscar

Year 6: Elizabeth

Book Fair

The book fair will be open during parents evening on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th February in the out of school club room. It will also be open on Thursday 26th February in hall from 8:30am – 9am. All payments are made online through a QR code. The children will be taken as a class to visit the fair throughout the week to browse the books available. We are able to order extra copies of books should this be needed.

Let’s GO ALL IN together for the National Year of Reading and earn lots of exciting new books for our school.

World Book Day – Thursday 5th March 2026

For World Book Day this year we invite the children to dress up as their favourite book character. The children will participate in lots of fun reading activities throughout the day and share their favourite stories.

Maths

We have been busy this week with a focus on measurement. We have learnt to compare objects by Length, Width, Height, Mass and Capacity.

Literacy

This week we have learnt a new story 'Tell Me a Dragon', This week we have thought about the text and thought about what our dragon would look like? what can it do? what makes it special?

We pained our dragons and then wrote about them.

We also had a delivery of our own dragon eggs to care for...

A big thank you to Rohan's Mum who shared her amazing dragon with us. We had alot of fun watching and performing a chinese new year dragon dance. 

Library Session 

We have continued to attend the school library on a Friday morning. The children will have the opportunity to choose and take home a book to read over the weekend. This book must be returned on the Thursday so we can change it the following Friday.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION....

Please can we ask if you didn't return your child's book to send it in as soon as possible. A new book cannot be issued until returned.

The children finally were able to get their hands on the new climbing equipment. A very excited class.  

Safety in PE

We would like to remind all parents that for the safety of all children and following guidance from Chorley SSP, jewellery is not to be worn during PE. This includes earrings, bracelets and watches. All children will be asked to remove their jewellery at the start of every PE lesson. This will ensure their own safety during the lesson and the safety of others. If a child is unable to take out their own earrings, adults in school will not be able to do it for them. This will mean they will have to take another role in the lesson such as observing, coaching or officiating.

For this reason, if your child is not confident taking out earrings, please do not put them in on our PE days. This year, our PE lessons are on Monday and Friday, however we may also have extra lessons on other days throughout the year.

Thank you for your support in keeping our children safe.

Tennis Sessions

This is our last tennis lesson today and we had such fun learning to apply our new skills in some team games. A huge thank you to the tennis coach for his time and efforts.

End of Day Routine

• Children will only be allowed to go home with adults listed on the safeguarding form, unless school has been contacted to state otherwise. ​

• Children will be dismissed one at a time. Please let the adult on the gate know who you are picking up and they will then call the child.

• We kindly request that all children are dismissed prior to teachers/ Teaching Assistants being approached by parents. ​

• Should any child need to come back into the classroom, we will allow them back into the room after all of the children have been dismissed.​

Show and Tell!

Please send us a photo of your child's sharing their bedtime routine and their special bedtime storybook.

Please can we ask that children only bring in items/photos for show and tell based on what we have asked for on the blog.