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Kent Wildlife Trust Visit

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On Wednesday we visited New Romney’s nature reserve as part of our topic flowers and insects. We had a long walk down the nature reserve and were really thankful for the parents and staff that helped to keep us safe on the way.

We were met by our guides for the day, they ran activities for us in both the Warren and in the Community Garden.

The children were able to collect bugs using a net, and then observe them closely in the magnified pots. We went on a bug hunt, flower trail and had to collect all kinds of things for our scavenger hunt! We also learnt about the parts of a flower and how it grows from a seed. We had to be really quiet when were inspecting which insects came to visit the flowers in the sunshine!

When back at school last week we then looked at all of our fabulous new bug houses and hotels to see if we had the same bugs back at school! – There were many, many woodlice, but not as many exciting spiders.

Have a look at our day in pictures, as well as our bughouses made my our amazing children and parents. We are really thankful for your support and hard work 🙂

Our RWI parent meetings for EYFS and KS1

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Thank you so much to all those parents who attended our information meetings about RWI at St Nicholas

Here is the powerpoint incase you missed the meeting or want to have a look at any of the sites mentioned.

We will be having another meeting soon with our RWI link Nick.. keep checking the website for more details.

parent_meeting

Here are some videos that you might find useful:

Saying the sounds

How to help at home

bouncy sounds

sketchy sounds

If you want to have RWI resources at home.. here is a link to Amazon for the RWI home pack 🙂

 

Our First School Trip

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Mrs Reynolds and Miss Common have been to visit the site of our first school trip for the 2017-2018 School Year, we have been busy creating exciting learning experiences for our new Year One children and we are really looking forward to welcoming you all on Wednesday 6th September.

Our first IPC (international primary curriculum topic) will be Flowers and Insects. On Friday will be designing our own miniature gardens, so feel free to start collecting little objects that you could use for your own mini garden!

We are always looking to develop our outdoor area, so if you have any off-cuts of piping or clips to help with our new water wall, or any old baking tins or pans for our mud kitchen we would really appreciate any donations 🙂

Have a look through these lovely photos to see what flowers and insects you can spot!

We hope you have a lovely last few days of the school holiday.

Miss Reynolds and Miss Common

Over the holidays…

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Welcome to New and Old Year One Parents,

Please log on to our Oxford Owl account where you can access free reading books online, you have a log-in stuck in your child’s contact book, if you can’t find it – just email Miss Common

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk

 

We would also like to introduce you to Read Write Inc.

We will be suing this method to teach phonics to Reception, Year One and Year Two pupils from September.

Your child has been assessed and will be grouped with children for a 45 minute phonics, reading and writing session every morning. It is a fun, fast paced programme that will help your child to develop a love for reading.

We want to ensure that we give our children here at St Nicholas Primary the best start in their education, and we ask for your support too!

Have a look at these videos that will show how we will be teaching phonics and how you can support at home too.

 

http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/resources/parent-tutorial-1-understanding-read-write-inc-phonics/

 

http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/resources/parent-information-understanding-phonics/

 

http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/resources/read-write-inc-fresh-start-sound-pronunciation-guide/