Please could your child bring a sturdy plastic or canvas shopping bag into school tomorrow or Thursday, to take their school books home in.

Many thanks

Tomorrow is our class trip to Shrewsbury.

Please can children be prepared for the hot weather. They will need a plastic water bottle, sun hat and sun cream applied before they arrive at school. They can bring their own suncream to reapply, if necessary.

Please remember a packed lunch, if they aren’t having one provided by school.

We will be walking from The Quarry to Shrewsbury Abbey, which is approximately a 20 minute walk. We will try to keep to the shaded areas and take regular breaks.

Many thanks

If you haven’t yet returned the slip for our class trip, please could you send it into school tomorrow.

There has been a change to our itinerary, as Shrewsbury Library will now be closing on that afternoon.

Instead, we will be visiting Shrewsbury Abbey. Here, we will have a guided tour and a demonstration of the organ, which has 4,000 pipes.

Many thanks

If you are planning to join us in school for our boat making afternoon, please come for 1.15pm. We will meet in the hall so please sign in at the office.

Many thanks for all the recycled items that have been sent into school.

It’s very much appreciated.

I would be very grateful if the children could bring into school, this week, any of the following recycled materials, you may have at home.

• Juice or milk cartons
• Yogurt pots or similar
• Egg cartons
• Margarine tubs
• Plastic drinks bottles
• Corks
• Plastic bottle caps

If anyone has any spare electrical tape that would be brilliant too.

All greatly appreciated. Many thanks for your time.

Mrs Morris

I hope that you all had a lovely Easter.

Forest School

As you know, Mrs Rollings retired at the end of last term and so Mrs Godfrey has taken over leading Forest School. This means that Forest School for Grasshoppers will now be on a Tuesday afternoon. The children will not be split into two groups so all the children will have a Forest School session every week. Sessions will begin next week, on Tuesday 21st April.

We do have some wellies, coats and waterproof trousers but if your child prefers to wear their own clothing and footwear then please send this each Tuesday.

Spellings

The children had a break from spellings, over Easter and so they will be given their new spelling lists on Thursday. Their next spelling test will be on Thursday 23rd April.

Many thanks

Grasshoppers didn’t have their spelling test today, due to World Book Day.

They will have their test and new spellings on Monday.

Thank you

I hope you all had a good half-term.

For the second half of the term, the children will be taking part in orienteering, for their Tuesday PE session.

Most of the sessions will be outdoors, weather permitting. Therefore, please could the children have an extra layer and their coats available so they aren’t cold.

Many thanks

1 Minute Maths

To support your child and help them build greater number confidence and fluency, a free app is available to download via the White Rose Maths Hub website. It is an excellent resource that we would encourage you to download and use with your child.

Click the link below and follow the instructions.

https://whiteroseeducation.com/1-minute-maths#download

The spelling test for this week will be on Monday as I was out of class, on a course, this morning. The children can use ‘Spelling Shed’ to learn their spellings or use their spelling books to do ‘Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check’.

Many thanks

Spelling test

As I am out on a course tomorrow, the spelling test for this week will be on Monday instead. It gives the children some extra time to learn their spellings. Their spelling list is on Spelling Shed in ‘Assignments’, if the children would like to use ‘Spelling Shed’ to learn their words.

Phonics

Some children have a little plastic bag in their reading wallet which contains the phonic sounds that they don’t yet know. Please could you support your child to learn these sounds.

Google ‘Sound Sayer’ for a brilliant game, which says the sound and gives a virtual pack of words to read containing the chosen sound.

Reading books

Just a reminder that the storybooks the children are bringing home are books that they may not be able to read themselves. These are just books to share for pleasure, with an adult if need be. You do not need to write these into their reading record.

The Twinkl phonics books are their main reading book and are closely matched to the phonic sounds that they know. Please record in their yellow reading records when they have read and which page they are up to or if they have completed the book. Reading books are checked daily.

Thank you very much for your support with spellings, reading and phonics. The input from home has a huge impact.

Please do get in touch if you have any questions. Our class email is: grasshoppers@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk