This week the Fantastic Foxes have been working at completing assessments. It is the first time we have done these special jobs and the children have really impressed me with how sensibly they have worked to complete them, in order to show me just how well they can work independently. 

We are also focusing on tricky words this half-term, in particular reviewing tricky words that we have already covered to ensure everyone feels more confident using them, before we look at learning the last few that we have yet to cover this year. 

The children have all been taught the tricky words for phase 2, 3 and 4:

Here are the phase 5 tricky words. We have covered most of them, although there are a few that haven't been taught  yet. Perhaps you could work with your child at home to try and ensure that they can remember all the phase 2, 3 and 4 tricky words, and see which phase 5 tricky words they are confident with: