Year 1
Week Beginning 29th April
This week, the children have started our new English unit on 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea'. We have learned lots of great actions to help them to re-tell the story next week. Why not ask them if they can remember any of the parts of the story!
This week, we are so excited about our visit from, 'The Creature Teachers' on Friday!
This week, phonics packs have come home with every child. Please look through the packs carefully and continue to practise any gaps that your child/ren may have. We really appreciate your support at home with this, thank you!
We have attached some links below for those who could not attend the phonics workshop:
The PowerPoint shared at the workshop:
Phonics & Reading workshop Year 1.pptx
Phonics Information for parents:
Introduction-to-phonics-handout-for-parents-and-carers 1.pdf
Level 5 Sound Mat – This has all the graphemes we have introduced this year and a few (tch, ear as in pear, are as in bare and ore) we will learn in the summer term.
Level 2 and 3 Sound Mat – This has all the graphemes introduced in EYFS. It will benefit lots of the children to keep re-visiting these regularly.
Tricky words – These are words which are mostly not decodable (You can’t sound them out). The children need to be able to recognise these by sight.
Tricky words - Levels 2-5.docx
VIPERS PowerPoint – VIPERS is an acronym we use to help develop skills in comprehension. This has some example questions which could be used when you hear your child read. There are more examples on the workshop PowerPoint also.
Worship Theme of the week:
Hope
God holds each of our futures, and so we can put our hope in him.
English: We will begin to re-tell the story in our books.
Maths: We will be starting to explore arrays.
Phonics: We continue to recap level 3 and 5 sounds in preparation for the phonics screening.
Whole class reading: We will be using 'Vipers' to analyse the Julia Donaldson book, Superworm.
RE: We will be learning about parables in the Bible and why Jesus used them to teach others.
Geography: We will be designing clothes for people to wear in polar climates.
Home Learning:
My Maths- New tasks have been set on My Maths for your children to complete for this half term. Please remember, these are by no means compulsory, but we would love as many children as we can to access this great resource to develop fluency in their maths learning.
Numbots- Please continue to log in regularly and earn those coins!
Word walls- Please continue to practise with your children at home.
TwinklGo! – If you type into the search engine ‘TwinklGo’, this code RA1572 will give you some phonics games.
Please return the children’s books and reading diaries on Monday ready for a new book to be issued to them. A reminder to please sign their diary each time they read at home. Your child can also complete the pages on the right hand side for an extra stamp! ALL Rhino reading books will be changed on a Monday. If your child is absent on a Monday we will endeavour to change their book when they are back in school.
Messages:
Whilst most school dinners have been a hit with children, there are still a few who are unsure about some options (particularly jacket potatoes!) Of course, we would never let a child go hungry, but we are limited with what we can offer them. Please continue to discuss with your child if they are enjoying their lunch and amend if necessary, thank you for your support with this!
Please could you check at home to see if you have any of our school library books in your bookshelves or hiding under beds etc! We visit the library on a Friday, so please return books to be changed each week. Thank you!
It is really important to put children’s NAMES in all their clothes, on packed lunch boxes, water bottles, coats etc- otherwise they do not go home with the correct child. If you could all check that all items are named, we would really appreciate it.
Please could water bottles be placed into a plastic bag in their school bag to protect school reading books. All water bottles must only contain water and NOT squash please.
Please note, our fruit at school is delivered on a Monday, but sometimes later in the day. Please could you provide your child with a snack on a Monday to avoid them getting hungry if our fruit has not been delivered.
Key Dates:
Friday 3rd May- Creature Teachers visit
Monday 20th May – Class photos with Frazer portraits
Key Information:
Please wear PE kits on a Tuesday.
Additional help with reading/phonics:
If you are wondering how you can provide general support for your child at home, our advice is to hear them read as often as possible. Please do not worry if your child brings home the same book from time to time- this is to gain confidence and fluency before moving onto different sounds in other books.
We also have an excellent link to some high quality texts that you may want to consider when choosing children’s books to read or buy!
Additional Maths:
By the end of Year 1, children are expected to:
- count forwards and backwards in ones to 100
- be able to count in 2s, 5s and 10s
- find one more and one less than a given number up to 100
- recognise the value of all coins
- know number bonds (numbers that add together) to total 10 and 20.
These are excellent skills to be practising at home, although we stress that they will be covered over the course of the school year.
Best wishes,
The Year 1 Team
Miss Pain, Mrs Allery & Mrs Stoodley