Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome back to a brand new year at Appleton Wiske Primary. We hope that you have had a lovely and relaxing holiday with your families and that the children are looking forward to a new and exciting year ahead full of hard work, challenge and fun.
In English, Year 3 and Year 4 are working on Comprehension Bug. This involves a daily half an hour session where the children will complete independent activities to help them to develop comprehension skills. One of the sessions each week will be to share and discuss their answers with the teacher. During this time, Year 2 will be working on reading comprehension activities, with the support of Mrs. Gudger. We will also continue to use ‘Spelling Shed‘ which we will be using alongside spelling games and activities to practise the year 2/3/4 spelling list. In writing, we will be exploring a range of Fiction and Non-Fiction texts and the children will be planning and writing these types of texts. We will be basing lots of our writing on our topic, ‘First Railways’, but we will also be using ‘Literacy Shed’ video clips and a range of texts to inspire our writing.