Thornton Hough Primary School

Summer Term Headlines

• Reading books and red reading records are to be in school every day please.
• PE kits are to be in school every day. Our PE lessons this term are on Tuesday and Thursday, however these may change on occasions due to the weather.
• Please send in a named water bottle to school on a Monday. they will be sent home every Friday.
• Coat/raincoat to be brought into school every day. 

Important dates:

Tues 5th May- Parents Online Safety Training 4pm – 4:45pm

Fri 22nd May - Break up for Half Term

HALF TERM

Mon 1st June - Children return to school

W/c 8th June - Phonics Check week for Year 1

Tues 16th - June School Disco

Wed 17th June - Whole Class Photo Day

Fri 19th June-  Year 1 Class Assembly for parents – 9:15am

W/c Mon 22nd - June Diversity week

Tues 23rd June - KS 1 Sports Day (1.30pm -Village Green for parents to watch ) reserve day 25/6/26

Wed 24th June-  Year 1 trip – Claremont Farm

Fri 3rd July - Summer Fair at Brimstage Maze

Thurs 9th July Musical Evening – 6:30pm

Fri 10th July Reports to Parents

Fri 17th July Final Day of School Year

Daily essentials

Phonics/Reading

• Please read your child's phonics reading book with them each day. Any extra reading you can do with your child at home would be most beneficial. This could include a range of non-fiction and fiction books as well as poems. 
• Please practise reading the real and alien word cards your child will come home with. 
•  Please see a list of Year 1 recommended reads below. 

Maths

• Please practise number formation with your child. 

• Counting forwards and backwards from any given number. A good resource to select a given number can be accessed here:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-square

• Practise counting in steps of 2, 5 and 10 to 100. 
• We have been working on the place value of numbers to 100 . A great game to practise this can be accessed below:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

English 

• Practise writing simple sentences with your child. This can be as simple as what you are going to be doing that day. You can write a sentence from a picture from your favourite book, or any book that you have at home. 

• This term we are focusing on capital letters, finger spaces, full stops in the correct place and reading their own work back to check that it makes sense. 

• Please practise letter formation with your child. 

You can find out more about our curriculum this Summer term in the Curriculum Information above. There are also some other useful documents to help your child. 

We had a lovely sunny visit to Thornton manor for our history topic about significant places in our locality. 

Year 1 loved their visit from A to Z animal safari. Weren't they brave?

During Children's Mental Health Week 2026, our theme was 'This is My Place'. Throughout the week, we have read lots of lovely stories, completed some lovely activities and watched some lovely animations around the topics. We looked at places that are special to us and discussed what makes them special to us. We have discussed how we feel in these special places and what we can do if we are not feeling happy, safe and calm, like we do in these special places. We all made a calming toolkit to help us and we loved sharing what we had been up to with the rest of the school during assembly. 

We had great fun raising money for a good cause today !