Welcome back to our F2 children after a well deserved Christmas break!

We hope you all had a wonderful time celebrating Christmas and New Year. The children made so much progress last term with their phonics, it was so lovely to see how excited they were every time they were taught a new digraph/trigraph.

Just a polite reminder that your child needs to be reading 3 times a week at home to ensure they are making as much progress as possible in reading.

Our book this half term is 

On a Pirate Ship by Sarah Courtauld.

A jolly picture book following a crew of not-so-scary pirates across the high seas.
The children love following the story as the swashbuckling pirates sail through a swirling storm, sing sea shanties and tally up their twinkling treasure!

We kicked off this half term with a visit from pirate Ron! Ron started the day with a hilarious talk about pirates. The children then watched a puppet show and finished the day by making their own pirate puppet.

What a fun week we've had making pirate paintings for our creations display! The children were able to explain what pirates wear and add these items to their paintings, e.g. pirate hats, cutlasses and big black boots!

The children have been loving our P.E. lessons this half term. We have been focusing on body management, which includes balancing, moving in different ways and stability. The children practiced this by climbing over apparatus and benches.