Week beginning 8th June 2026

Our final term in Year 1 began with lots of wonderful learning and enthusiasm from the children. We have started our new project, 'Oh, I do Like to be Beside the Seaside!'. The project overview and home learning are linked at the bottom of this page.  In history, the children enjoyed looking at photographs of Bournemouth from the past and the present and comparing them. They also started to think about identifying land masses such as rivers, roads and seas on a map, in geography. 

This week, you will have received a letter informing you about our beach trip on Tuesday 30th June, please let the office know if you are able to volunteer to help. Thank you in advance for all your kind offers of help.

We look forward to more exciting learning next week!

The Year 1 Team 

Our worship theme for this week is:

Spirituality

English: We will begin a unit on the wordless book, 'Wave', beautifully illustrated by Suzy Lee.

Maths: We will be learning to count in 5s.

Phonics:  We will continue revising sounds ahead of the phonics screening check. 

Geography: Our enquiry question this half term is, 'Are all beaches the same?' and we begin by looking at the human and physical features of Southbourne Beach.

History: The children will be creating a class timeline of changes in Bournemouth over time.

Whole Class Reading: 

Home Learning:

My Maths, Numbots and Twinkl Phonics App log ins are stuck into the front of your child's Reading Record.  Please speak to your child's teacher if you need any support with any of these platforms.

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.

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 Information and Dates:

Please wear PE kits on a Thursday.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mr Parsons and Mrs Stoodley