Croeso i Dosbarth Coch

Class teacher: Mrs. Hurley

Classroom support: Miss. Brown and Mrs. Jackson

Useful information

• Full time pupils need to bring in a healthy snack to have during the afternoon session. Please ensure fruit is peeled or cut if required and placed in a labelled container.
• We visit the school library on a Wednesday, so please ensure school book bags are returned on this day for your child to choose a new book to bring home to share with you .
• Our hall slot for a PE session is on a Friday so children are invited to wear their sport kit and trainers into school on this day.

Learning at Home

• If your child has a home/school reading book then please support them in practising for 5-10 minutes each day.
• Help your child to form lower case letters and numerals correctly using our formation rhymes.  These can be written in the air, using paint or chalks.  Please follow these links for the rhymes  https://teachingmama.org/number-formation-rhymes/  and  https://www.ruthmiskin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/handwriting_phrases_v2.pdf
• You might find the following websites useful to visit with your child at home. These can be accessed on a tablet if you do not have a home computer/laptop.

        https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=phonics

        https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=1

       https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-early-years/z6bgnrd

       https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zr99cqt

       https://whiteroseeducation.com/parent-pupil-resources/maths/home-learning?year=early-years

       https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/bedtime-stories

Summer Term Themes

Puddles and Rainbows

For the first half of this term, your child will be exploring the weather. We will be become weather forecasters and learn about what materials are waterproof as we go on welly walks. We will also be exploring the world of colour in nature by looking at rainbows.

Shadows and Reflections

We will be learning about shadows, reflections and symmetry in this topic. We will use mirrors to explore lines of symmetry in pictures and simple patterns and draw around our shadows in the outdoor environment. Your child will explore how shadows are formed and how they can change. 

Big Wide World

This will be our final project for this year. Your child will be learning about the global community they belong they belong to and will be exploring how plants, animals, communities and weather can differ around the world.

Photo and Video Gallery

We will upload photograph or video slideshows here at the end of each week, usually on a Friday to share with you the things we have been up to in our class. Look at these together with your child to encourage them to talk about their learning experiences. 

Today we celebrated world book day. We all came into school wearing costumes of our favourite characters from books and shared these with our friends.