Many people asked about letter formation at parent meetings and how we teach this at Kelvedon.  We use Twinkl handwriting and use rhyme to remember the correct formation of our letters. We have been learning the formation of letters in our names and will begin to learn the rest of the alphabet when ready, beginning with 'l' and our 'long ladder family'

  Another week has flown by with lots of exciting learning happening. In Phonics we have been recapping Level 2 sounds taught, spending time on oral blending and grapheme recognition. We are collectively writing a sentence or caption in our spellings sessions, the children love a silly sentence! Our book focus has been Room on the Broom which we discovered is a firm favourite. We carried on the witch theme for Rhyme time, exploring prosody, using our loud and quite voices and also incorporating a performance element. RW shared their Rhyme with Mr Hopegood who was suitably impressed and slightly scared at the same time. Ask your child to teach you the Rhyme, it was fantastic. Maths this week the focus has been on the concept of  'more than' and 'fewer than'.  Our class Bears were squabbling over who had more than and fewer than of an object so the children helped and corrected them. We have continued using music to move our bodies in PE. The children made shapes with the...

Thank you F.I.T.C from Year 6 A huge thank you to F.I.T.C for coming into school over the past half term and delivering fantastic PE sessions for our Year 6 pupils! The children have had a brilliant time developing their sporting skills, building confidence and trying out a range of different sports. From football and hockey to basketball and dodgeball, every session has provided exciting opportunities for the children to learn new skills, work as a team and challenge themselves. It has been wonderful to see the enthusiasm, teamwork and sportsmanship shown by the children throughout the sessions. The variety of activities has helped to keep everyone engaged, active and enjoying their PE lessons, while encouraging them to develop a real love of sport and physical activity. Thank you to everyone at F.I.T.C for your time, energy and enthusiasm. We really appreciate the fantastic opportunities you have provided for our Year 6 pupils and the positive impact you have made over the past hal...

 Today, we had great fun showing our homework. There were some brilliant examples. We had fun talking about our learning.