Friday 2nd February 2024 

Dear parents, 

Thank you to the parents who came in today to read! The children loved having you. 

Phonics - Please continue to read, practise sounds and watch the phonics speedy ready reading videos. 

Handwriting - A new activity has been sent out in their homework books today. 

Maths - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zd4b382

I hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Friday 26th January 2024 

Dear parents, 

Thank you for your continued support this year. The child are making fantastic progress in all areas of their learning. 

Phonics - Please continue to read, practise sounds and watch the phonics speedy ready reading videos. 

Handwriting - A new activity has been sent out in their homework books today. 

Maths - We have been learning all about 1 more and 1 less this week. Please have a go at the game below.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/robot-more-or-less

I hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Friday 19th January

Dear parents, 

For homework this week please continue to read every day for at least 15 minutes. This could be reading their RWInc book, practising sounds or watching the videos sent out on the APP. 

I have also sent home a new handwriting homework book. This will be sent out every Friday. Please send this back by the following Thursday to be marked and a new activity to be stuck in. 

Maths - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering

Have a fantastic weekend,

Miss Smith 

Friday 12th January 2024 

Dear parents, 

Please see below this week's homework. 

Phonics - Video's sent home via app. 

Please make sure that your child is reading every evening for at least 10 minutes. Please make a note of this in your child's planner. 

Maths - Please continue to practise number formation at home. This is an important skill for all children. You may want to send this in to be displayed in class. 

Have a lovely weekend

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Friday 1st December 2023 

Dear parents, 

Please see the app message for phonics videos this week. 

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For the children's homework this week, I would like them to create a prayer focus at home. Advent is a special time of year and it is important that we are making time to spend with Jesus this Advent. I want you to create a special prayer focus and send in a picture so we can place it around our prayer area in the classroom. 

Have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith 

Friday 24th November 2023 

Dear parents, 

You will have received the homework speedy reading videos via app message. Please make sure children have time to practise these over the next week. 

Maths homework - 

This week, we have been practising recognition and representing number to 5. AT home please practise writing and ordering numbers to 5. 

I hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Friday 10th November 2023 

Dear parents, 

For this week's homework please see the app message with sound videos on. This will go through the 'Special Friends' we have learnt this week. 

Maths - Next week, we begin to look at different shapes. I want you to look around your house to see what shapes you can find. 

I hope you have a lovely weekend. 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Friday 20th October 2023 

Dear children, 

Well done on a fantastic week in school! 

Please see the message on the app for your phonics homework this week, 

For your maths homework, in school we have been representing numbers. I want you to use different objects at home to represent numbers up to 3 in lots of different ways. 

You may send me a picture of your maths homework and we can share it in class.  

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Friday 13th October 2023 

Dear children, 

Well done on a fabulous week in school! 

Please see the app message with your videos for this week's sounds on. Please make a note in your planner once you have watched these. 

For your maths homework. We have been looking at repeated patterns this week. Please have a go at creating a repeated pattern at home and/or playing the following game. 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

Have a fantastic weekend,

Miss Smith

Friday 6th October 2023 

Dear children, 

I have sent your homework videos on a link in a message to your parents, please watch these over the next week to help you learn and remember our new sounds. 

For your maths homework I want you to try and find items at home that are taller than you and items that are smaller than you. 

You can send a photo to reception@stalbanrc.bham.sch.uk and we will share them in class next week. 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Friday 29th September 2023 

Dear Parents, 

For the children's homework this week, please see below. 

Phonics

Please watch the videos sent on the app. These are the sounds we have been learning this week. 

Maths 

For maths, this week we have been sorting objects in to colours or items. Please can you sort some items at home in to different groups. 

Kind regards,

Miss Smith 

Friday 22nd September 2023 

Dear children, 

Well done on a fantastic week in school. 

For your homework this week, I have sent home m, a & s formation sheets. Please complete these and send these back to school next week. 

For your maths homework, I would like you to do some matching of items at home. Can you find two items exactly the same? How many items in your home match?

If you would like to send a photo to share in class next week, please email reception@stalbanrc.bham.sch.uk

I hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Smith