Year 1
Week beginning 9th June
It has been so lovely welcoming the children back to school this week. They have returned raring to go and full of energy for the last half term of Year 1!
This week we have been doing lots of wonderful learning. In Science, the children observed a plant and learnt to name the different parts. We also had a closer look at the tomato and sunflower plants that we planted last half term. We've started some learning linked to our new project, 'Oh, I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside!'. In Geography, we looked at maps and in History we explored photos of Bournemouth beach, past and present.
You will have received an overview of this project and some home learning suggestions earlier this week but you can also find it attached at the bottom of the page. We are looking forward to seeing some wonderful home learning from the children!
This week, the children will undertake the statutory phonics screening. The children have all been working so hard and we are so proud of their progress. There is no need to discuss this with your child as we regularly assess their phonics reading so it will appear routine to them. If you do have any free time over the weekend, it would be great if you could squeeze in some reading to ensure they feel confident.
The weather is getting warmer (sometimes!), so please try to ensure your child has a named water bottle and sun hat with them and has applied sunscreen each day.
Thank you for your continued support and have a lovely weekend!
Mrs Allery, Mrs Stoodley & Mrs Hall
Worship:
The worship theme this week is: Relationships
Learning this week:
English - We will be moving on to learn about recount writing. We are focusing on punctuating with capital letters, full stops and exclamation marks. We will also be working on spelling the suffixes s, es and ed in our writing.
Maths - We will be continuing to learn about arrays.
RE -We will be learning about the Hindi creation story.
Phonics - We are continuing to re-visit previous learning.
Science - We will be planting some beans and observing these over the half term.
D&T - We will learning about the artist Hokusai and block printing techniques.
Geography - We will be identifying the human and physical features of our local beaches.
Whole Class Reading - We will be reading, 'Pirates Love Underpants'.
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:
Week commencing: Monday 16th June - Sports week
Friday 20th June - Sports Day
Tuesday 24th June- Year 1 Beach Trip (Please let the office know if you can help on this trip. The more, the merrier!)
Friday 27th June- PSA School Discos
Wednesday 2nd July- Transition morning: Meeting new Year 2 teachers
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.