Year 1
Week beginning 23rd June
We have had such a busy week in Year 1! We had a fantastic time on our beach trip on Monday. Despite the rain we all had lots of fun playing games, creating sand art and sketching some beach scenes. Thank you to all the parents and grandparents who joined us and helped make this such an amazing experience.
On Friday we had our transition morning and you will have received a letter to let you know the name of your child's class teacher next year. We also had lots of fun at the disco in the afternoon. What a day!
We also have managed to fit in lots of learning. We have been finding out about money in Maths, carrying on observing the beans we planted in Science and finding out more about seaside holidays in the past, in History.
Thank you for your continued support and have a lovely, sunny weekend!
Mrs Allery, Mrs Stoodley & Mrs Hall
Worship:
The worship theme this week is: Spirituality - Beyond
"Spirituality concerns an individual's relationship with themselves, with others, with God (or the transcendent, outside humanity), and with the natural world," Church of England
Learning this week:
English - We will be writing a recount of our trip to the beach.
Maths - We will continuing to learn more about money and moving on to learn about measures of time.
History - We will continue to look at the history of Bournemouth as a seaside town.
Phonics - We will be learning that there are words with a silent e.
Science - We will be continuing to observe the beans we planted.
Art - We will be planning our prints of a beach scene.
Whole Class Reading - We will be reading our key text,, 'Lucy and Tom At The Seaside' by Shirley Hughes.
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:
Summer Fayre- Saturday 5th July
Tuesday 22nd July - Last day of term - We finish at 1:20pm.
Key Information:
Please wear PE kits on a Wednesday.