Welcome to Year 1

Welcome back!

We hope you have had a lovely Easter break and enjoyed lots of chocolatey fun. Well summer term is here already, this year is just flying by and it has been wonderful to watch your little ones learn, grow and develop over the last few months.

As soon as we come back from the May holidays the class will have their phonics screening test - they will be given 40 real and made up words to read based on the phonics that we have done in school this year. The last few years the pass mark has been 32/40. With this in mind your child may come home with phonics homework to boost their recall of the many phonemes (sounds) they have learned and increase their confidence. They are all doing so well with their phonics learning and we want them to all reach their full potential, so any help you can provide at home is so beneficial. Little and often is the key. We will run a parent workshop about the test in the first couple of weeks back to provide you with as much information as we can. In the meantime if you have any questions please come and speak to a member of the Year 1 team.

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 ‘Toys In Space’. The story is about a group of toys who are feeling scared and sad because they have been left in the garden overnight. They go on an imaginary space adventure where they meet Hoctopize, an alien who is looking for his lost toy. The children will love this book, it is funny and has some lovely characters.

The children will continue working on the basics of writing using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces and will try to remember to use exclamation marks and question marks from their learning last term. This book will give them the opportunity to use lots of interesting description (adjectives) to describe the many characters and the settings in the story. The class will continue to practise using -ed and -ing at the end of words and will begin to write words using the prefix -un.

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 work with numbers to 50. We will focus on multiplication and division. The class will count in steps of 2, 5 and 10 and will learn to recognise equal groups. They will share large numbers into equal groups.

Towards the end of the half term the class will begin to look at fractions, learning to find half of a shape then a quantity, then moving on to recognise and find a quarter of a shape then a quantity.

Other subjects…..

Science - Seasons, focusing on spring and summer.

History - Intrepid Explorers. Learning about Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong.

RE - ‘To The Ends of The Earth’. Reflecting on Easter and the time leading up to Pentecost

DT - Fruit and vegetables. Children will learn about being healthy and design and make their own fruit salad

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.

Although the weather and temperatures are improving, please bring a coat to school still as the weather can change very quickly.

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