This week, all the children at St. Matthew’s thought about how they can keep themselves safe when they are online.  We all learnt a new safety code that we will be using to remind themselves about how to keep safe when we go online to play games or look at videos.

First, the children need to remember to ‘zip it’ – in other words, they shouldn’t tell anyone online their name, their age or where they go to school – just like they wouldn’t tell a stranger in the park these things.  Second, the children need to remember to block it; meaning they shouldn’t click on videos, games or pop-ups they are not sure about.  And finally, the children need to remember to flag it; they should go to a trusted adult (‘flag it up’) if they do see something online that makes them feel worried or uncomfortable.

We have also been busy learning 3 new sounds this week.  They are ‘p’, ‘i’ and ‘n’.  Here are the actions and mouth shapes for these sounds.

Weekend challenge: can you remember the six sounds we have learnt so far? Can you remember the actions? How many different words can you make with the six sounds we know? (e.g. sat, pat, pin…)

In our maths lessons, we have been working hard to recognise numerals and show that we understand the quantities that different numerals represent.

Finally, we have been very busy practising for our Harvest celebration which will take place next Friday.  We have been learning a poem about a little brown seed.  If you have time, please do practise the poem with your child as we are trying to learn the words by heart! (Please note, we say ‘sprinkle’ and ‘twinkle’ twice, not three times).

Thank you!