Category: Chawson in the news

We are already learning so much about plants and growing and we are very excited about our trip to Webbs to see all the plants and flowers! Plants and growing topic letter 2017    

We have been learning some new tricky words since we came back from the Easter holidays! These new words are: said so have like These words are starting to appear in some of the home reading books so please keep supporting your child in learning all of the tricky words… Read More»

We had a great creative morning yesterday with our adults! As part of our ‘Animals and their habitats’ topic we spent a session creating lots of different animals! We created lions, jelly fish, giraffes, fish and lots and lots of snakes!! Thank you to all of our families who were… Read More»

We all had a great day today at West Midland Safari Park! It was raining when we left school but by the time we arrived it had stopped and it then turned into a beautiful sunny day-perfect to see all of the animals we had been learning about!    

We have introduced two new tricky words over the last fortnight. These tricky words are: all        are We have now learned all of the tricky words on the bookmarks that have been handed out so please keep supporting your child with learning these. Thank you.   Our handwriting letters this… Read More»

The letters we have been focusing on this week are: s     f    and    e Remember that each letter starts from the line! Handwriting formation s f e

Here is the topic letter for our new topic, dinosaurs. Thank you to everyone who helped their child to fill in the dinosaur homework sheet- we are already very busy trying to find the answers to all of the questions! Dinosaur topic letter

We have had a great concluding week to our ‘People who help us’ topic with visits from the paramedic and police. Before they visited, we spent time looking at non-fiction books to find out information about them, dressed up as them in the role play area and talked about what… Read More»

This week we have been busy recapping the digraphs in phonics and also recapping the handwriting letters we know so far. Don’t forget to keep practising the tricky words- RT and RK children will have already received the tricky word bookmarks to keep with reading books. RB children will get… Read More»

This week we have learned the correct formation for 3 new letters: g                 q              d Please keep encouraging your child when they are completing their handwriting sheets. It is great to see the children’s handwriting improving each day. Thank you!