Miss Singh-Bhatti Class Teacher	Mrs Johnson Teaching Assistant

Hello Class 1!

Here are some websites which you may find useful at home:

www.phonicsplay.co.uk - Lots of phonics games to support reading and writing of Phase 2 & 3. It's currently free at the moment, so take full advantage of this great resource while you can!

www.oxfordowl.co.uk - Free ebooks following the same book band colours we use in school

www.topmarks.co.uk - Lots of fun maths and English games

www.doorwayonline.org.uk - A great tool for letter and number formation

This week we had an exciting visitor from the past who came into school to teach us about History and the Great Fire of London.....

Sir William Petty is a rather famous gentleman who, being a founder member of the Royal Society, knows the king and many other famous folk (including Samuel Pepys). Recently several of his London properties were burned down during the Great Fire. Petty tells the full and exciting story of the terrible calamity during which the children join in several activities, such as working out how to form a bucket chain and becoming houses in an experiment to see how easily the fire spread. Sir William can ask the children to help him draw a map of the new London, each child having their own little parish to re-draw which then all join together to form one large map that everyone has contributed to.