Year 1

Week beginning 28th April

We hope you all had a great Easter holiday with lots of fun!

This week, we have started our new project, Curious Creatures. We have attached an overview of the learning and some ideas for home learning at the bottom of the page. We will be learning more about animals and grouping them by their type and also by what they eat. We will also learn more about hot and cold climates and link this to where animal habitats are.

We enjoyed planting some seeds this week and will be watching them grow over the next term. We also started solving some missing number problems with numbers from 11-19 in Maths and have started learning our new story, 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' in English.

Next week we will be beginning to learn about different types of animals, i.e. birds and mammals, in Science and beginning to plan our own story about a visitor.

We are looking forward to our trip to the wildlife park, Wednesday. Please ensure you have read the letter sent out earlier this year and have given consent on Arbour. At the moment, the weather looks like it will be fairly warm, so please remember to apply sunscreen to your child and provide them with a sun hat.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Allery, Mrs Stoodley & Mrs Hall

Worship:

The worship theme this week is: Love

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.’

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Learning this week:

English - We will be learning about adding the suffixes s and es to words for plurals and beginning to plan our own stories about a visitor, based on the story, 'A Tiger Who came to Tea'.

Maths - We will be sorting numbers to 100 into odd and even numbers and also learning about doubling.

RE -We will be beginning our learning based on the story of the prodigal son from the Bible.

Phonics - We are continuing to re-visit previous learning.

Science - We will be beginning to learn about different types of animals i.e. birds, fish, mammals, and the features of each.

Home Learning:

My Maths and Numbots log ins are stuck into the front of your child's Reading Record. We would love to see more children logging into Numbots, it is a great resource and a fun way for your children to build fluency in maths. Please speak to your child's teacher if you need any support with this.

Phonics: We have attached some information and further home learning at the bottom of this page focusing on the new graphemes we have been learning this year.

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.

Messages:

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. We already have some unclaimed and unnamed items from this week. 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:

Wednesday 30th April - Year 1 visit to the New Forest Wildlife Park. Please ensure you have read and responded to the letter regarding this.

Friday 20th June - Sports Day

Key Information:

Please wear PE kits on a Wednesday.