Welcome to Year 1

Welcome back!

We hope that you have had a lovely week, the weather hasn’t been great but hopefully you found ways to have fun and spend some time with your lovely little ones. We are really excited to see everyone back in school and hear about everything that they have been up to and we can’t wait to start our new learning and watch them blossom even more.

This half term your child may come home with some phonics to practise - please do this as regularly as you can - little and often is best. The children are doing so well with their phonics, but the phonics screening test is fast approaching (summer term) and we want all the children to achieve what we know they are capable of - but practise is key!! Any help you can give at home will be priceless.

. As always if you need to speak to us about anything this half term you can always send us a message on class dojo or speak to us after school.

There are lots of exciting new things for your child to learn this term……..

English

Our class book this half term is ‘The Curious Case of The Missing Mammoth’. It is a lovely book with gorgeous illustrations and I am sure that the children are going to be really engaged by the story. They will start the week by finding bones in the playground and piecing together a picture of a giant mammoth. The class will have to work out what all these things have to do with each other and will be encouraged to ask questions to find out more. As we progress through the book the class will describe the characters and the setting of the story using adjectives.

During the half term the children will continue to practise writing a good sentence using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops and will check back over what they have written to be sure it makes sense. They will be encouraged to extend their sentences using the word ’and’. The class will continue to think about when to use question marks and exclamation marks and try to use them accurately in their own writing. We will encourage them to use the prefix un- and the suffixes -er -ed-est and -ing, and to spell words correctly using them.

Maths

Maths sessions will begin each day with a recap of the foundations in maths, such as number bonds to 10, counting in sets of 2’s grouping numbers etc.

This half term the children will continue to become more confident using numbers to 20 and then later using numbers up to 50. We will build on their understanding of place value, recognising how many tens and ones a number has and we will use this and their knowledge of number bonds to 10 to begin to add and subtract using these larger numbers. Towards the end of the term we will be looking at length and height.

Other subjects…..

Science - Plants.

Geography - My school.

RE - ‘Desert to Garden’. Learning about the period of time leading up to Jesus dying on the cross and his resurrection.

Art - Animal art.

Music - Simple melodies, pitch and performing together.

Things to remember

Our PE day will be on a WEDNESDAY. Children need to come into school wearing their correct PE uniform please.

Please make sure your child brings their book bag in every day.

Their reading book will then be changed every Friday. Please read their book with them every day if possible - little and often is much better than trying to do a lot in one go.

Children also need to bring a labelled water bottle to school each day. This needs to be plastic please and small - no metal water bottles.

Please make sure your child has their name in any cardigans, jumpers and coats.

Keep an eye on class dojo - we will use this to send home information about school and class events and any information that you need to know. We will also put the word of the day on here each afternoon so that you can discuss it with your child at home after they have learned about it in class.

Any issues please come and see us or send us a message on class dojo.

Mrs Lyon, Mrs Rainey & Mrs Ford x x x