Class Teacher: Mrs S Spencer and Mrs I Gamblin
Class Teacher: Mrs R White
Learning Support: Mrs L White and Miss L Dean
The children will have PE on Wednesday and Thursday – please ensure the children come to school in full kit on both days. Please see the uniform policy.
The children will have the opportunity to change their spot books as frequently as they like.
The changeover day for Bug Club books is Monday – the children will bring home a Bug Club book that will focus on the Phonics sounds that we are learning that week. The children can also access these books online on the Bug Club website (more information below).
Year 1 visit the library on a Monday afternoon– they are able to take out one book that can go home, please ensure they bring their library book with them each week as we are given an allocated slot.
The children are welcome to bring in any celebratory extra-curricular achievements or homework on a Monday only. We look forward to celebrating their hard work with the rest of the class.
Our topic this half term is ‘Marvellous Me!’. We will be celebrating everyone’s differences and what makes them unique.
This half term the children will be learning about place value within 10. Within this they will be sorting and counting objects, counting forwards and backwards from 10, comparing numbers and using a numberline.
Numberblocks is a great educational cartoon on BBC that teaches the children early number understanding. Click the link below.
Topmarks has lots of good maths games. Hit the Button is great for quick recall of number bonds, doubles and halves.
Our planning and teaching ensures that we cover the objective as outlined in year 1 National Curriculum, please click here for more information.
WRITING:
In our English lessons this half term we are going to be reading and exploring a range of fiction and non-fiction texts based on the theme of being unique.
The Year 1 CEW and Year 1 HFW word lists below are words that the children will need to know by the end of Year 1.
Phonics:
This half term we will be recapping Phase 3 and Phase 4 sounds, before starting Phase 5 sounds later on.
Phase 5 can take a little longer to grasp and we anticipate that the children may use the wrong spelling for a sound, this will of course be corrected however as we encourage the children to become more independent in their writing, a ‘phonetically plausible attempt’ as accepted at this stage in year 1. For example, if a child was to write ‘wayt’ rather than ‘wait’ or ‘lighn’ rather than ‘line’, they are still showing a secure understanding of phonics.
This phase focuses on the other graphemes that can make up a sound, for example – in phase 3 the children learn the ‘air’ grapheme for that sound, as in hair. In phase 5 we introduce the ‘are’ as in care and ‘ear’ as in bear.
By Easter the children will have learnt all of their sounds and will be recapping Phases 3,4 and 5 for their statutory year 1 phonics screening assessment in June. Date TBC.
Reading:
Your child will read with a member of staff 1:1 as well as in small guided reading groups, whereby they will explore texts which link to our topic.
The children will be able to change their spot books Monday – Thursday or when needed. Members of staff will move them onto a higher spot book band as they make progress throughout the year. The book bands will link to their phonetic knowledge, the sight reading of tricky words and their ability to understand and answer questions about what they have read. If you would like to discuss ways in which you can support your child’s reading further, please speak to your child’s class teacher.
Reading with your child at home is a fantastic way to support their learning and progress. We suggest that a ‘little and often’ approach is best, i.e. five minutes, five times a week. As well as decoding the words, ask them questions to check their understanding. Please read to your child in addition to listening to them read; this will encourage them to behave like a reader, copying what they see and hear. We recommend that you share your favourite stories, allowing them to join in with predictable phrases.
Each time children read at home and their grown-up records this in their reading record, they get to move their rabbit up the carrot or their squirrel up the acorns. Once they have reached the top of the carrot or acorns, they get a sticker for their bookmark. When their bookmark has 5 stickers they will receive a reading challenge certificate to take home.
Handwriting:
The children will have weekly handwriting sessions during which they will focus on their pencil grip, writing on the line, forming pre-cursive letters and eventually joining their letters together. As a school, we follow the Letter Join handwriting scheme.
Should you want to log on and practise handwriting at home the details are:
TABLET EDITION:
Username: jk78829 / Password: a capital ‘L’, starting at the top left.
HOME-SCHOOL ACCOUNT:
Username: jk78829 / Password: home
Our planning and teaching ensures that we cover the objective as outlined in year 1 National Curriculum, please click here for more information.
Science – Plants
Computing – Technology around us
Geography – Here I am
PSHE – My healthy self: How can we look after our emotions?
P.E- Dance (indoor) and Multiskills (outdoor)
Handwriting – Long Ladder Letters
Please enjoy looking at the photos of our children captured on camera during their learning journey this academic year.