Weekly News, Summer A, Week 1

              17th April 2026

Announcements: Welcome back, Year 2! We have so loved seeing you all again this week and hearing about the wonderful adventures that you have had over Easter. We have been straight back to it, with lots of fabulous learning…

This week we started our new topic "How do things grow?" 

We talked about the flowers and insects that we can now see in the garden and drew pictures of them. We also planted a range of flowers and vegetables including peas, beans and pumpkins. We are going to look after them and give them…

Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely Easter break! The children have settled back in beautifully, showing excellent learning behaviours as we head into our final term in Reception.

Phonics - 

Grapheme recap - oo (hook), ai, or, ur, ow.

Tricky words - recap of all tricky…

 Weekly News, Spring B, Week 5

                         27th March 2026

Announcements: Thank you so much for all of your kind donations of junk modelling materials this week. The children made some absolutely fantastic carriages this week and we had such fun creating our own 3D…

English

This week, we concluded our learning based on the book Martha Maps It Out. The children have been busy writing back‑and‑forth…

Thank you for joining us for our assembly on Monday, the children have worked incredibly hard over the last few weeks learning their lines, we hope you are as proud as we were!

Phonics -

Grapheme - recap of all phase 3 digraphs.

Tricky words - recap of all taught tricky…

English

In Year One, we are absolutely loving the adventures Martha takes in Martha Maps It Out. Our extended piece of writing is going to be a story about our own adventure; who might we meet? Where will we go? What will we do? These are all of the questions we will be answering in our…

The children were absolutely amazing during our trip to Knebworth. They should be very proud of themselves, we had a lovely day!

Phonics -

Graphemes - recap of oa, ar, ur, er.

Tricky words - recap of all tricky words.

Some words we have written - oa, park, turn,…

We have had a lovely week playing in the sunshine and enjoying the garden. 
We have played in our next babies area, balanced on the slack line and used the crates and planks of wood to create obstacle courses. 
 

Our pattern line this week was an upside down arch. We decided it looked like a…

 Weekly News, Spring B, Week 4 

                         20th March 2026

Announcements: The sun shone again on Strathmore this week which was such a lovely change from the cold, wet Winter months that we have had! As the weather continues to improve, we kindly ask that children apply…

English

In English, the children wrote a sequence of sentences about either a worry (like Ruby in Ruby’s Worry) or a roar (like Ravi in…

 Weekly News, Spring B, Week 3 

                         13th March 2026

Announcements: Well, what a lovely week we have had in Year 2! We are so proud of our children involved in the Rock Steady concert this week. It is not easy to stand up in front of a large audience to play and…