Hi all

A great way to get your children thinking about addition and subtraction is through drawings!  The children love drawing mathematical marks on their boards to represent addition.  We also use counters, an abacus (!) and some children are even able to add in their heads or on their fingers.  The children in Willow have even been seen to transfer these skills into their own play and act as scorekeepers, making the mathematical marks to show what is happening in their game.  Solving their own problems is great for their self esteem!

Take a look at some of our amazing maths work.  You can see that some of our children can add very high numbers in their heads already!  Our Year 1 teachers are very lucky to be receiving such intellectual children!

Our next step is to ensure that all children are forming their numbers correctly.  You can help us by practising at home.

Hi all!

Just a few updates to tell you what has been happening and what will happen for the next few weeks!

Firstly I’d like to tell you that we had a visit from the borough as part of their moderation cycle (this happens at least once every 4 years for every school in the borough) on Friday afternoon and the moderators were very pleased with what they discovered during our conversations and through us sharing the children’s wonderful work.  This moderation looks at the provision the children receive while in school and how well we as adults support them in their learning and assess them.  Well done everyone!

The children will resume their phonics lessons this week and will be taking home a new RWI book to read with you.  Home reading books will be changed in classes as normal for the week.  Well done to everyone who has really upped the reading at home- we have noticed a big difference in their skills so well done everyone!

Our new reception children will be attending stay and play sessions for the next 3 Tuesdays.  Your child should come to school as normal but during 9:30-10:30, Mrs Dobinson and some other adults will be taking the current children out to the field to take part in activities while the new children have a chance to explore their new environment. During the final week, the current children will spend time with the new children, helping them to settle in while the new intake of parents meet us in the hall.  We know your children will be extremely helpful to the youngest additions to our school!

As usual, please feel free to come and speak to any adult at the end of the school day.  We have managed to speak to lots of you about your child’s writing as SO many children have had their work displayed on the Star Writer wall!  The star writer bag will be given out this week to our 2 best writers of the whole week.

Mrs Toms 🙂