Mrs Lindblad's Class 2024 - 2025

Year 1

Welcome to our Class Page

Hello Everyone and WELCOME BACK!

I hope that you have all had a lovely Easter break and are excited to be coming back to school. I am certainly looking forward to seeing you all. I have got lots of exciting things planned and I can't wait to watch you grow further in confidence and show everyone how amazing you are.

On this webpage you will find important information about the school day and week. Please have a read through and make sure you check it regularly for any changes. I will continue to use Seesaw and I will send important information that way too. You can also contact me via Seesaw if you need to.

Further down this page you will find a weekly learning journey  to let you know what we will be covering each week and I hope this will enable you to support your child where possible and talk to them about what they have been learning in class.

Our School Day

Now that we are in the Main School, the school days will start at 8.45am and end at 3.15pm. I will meet children at Mrs Harry's doors each morning from 8.40am and should you wish to speak to me please feel free to catch me either at the start or the end of the day. Children will leave from the Hall doors each afternoon.

Our learning this term

We have lots of exciting things planned this term and I hope that your child will come home each day feeling excited about their day. The yearly curriculum planner can be found in the files section of the web page below.

In English, we will being focussing in particular on learning about what a sentence is and how to write one. We will be also be practicing our letter formation, making sure that we know all the capital letters, learning about writing in the past tense, using 'and' to join sentences and learning about the plurals of words. 

Our story topic is 'Toys in Space' and our writing will then be based around  this book.

 In maths this half term we will be learning about numbers to 100, multiplication, counting in 2s. 5s and 10s, division and fractions . We will also look at time and money so any support with using an analogue clock and identifying different notes and coins would be very helpful.

Summer Dates for your diary

Friday 6th June - Highfields Music Festival

Thursday 12th June - Class trip to Reaseheath Mini Zoo

PE

This year we will have two P.E. lessons a week. This term they will take place on a Wednesday  and a Thursday afternoon. We would like the children to come dressed for P.E. on these 2 days so that we won't have to worry about getting changed. Please be aware that most lessons will take place outside so we would appreciate it if the children could be wearing their school track suit over their shorts and T shirt so that we are prepared for all weather. Children will also need a water bottle for P.E. lessons as they always get very thirsty.

Snacks:

We will provide daily fruit or vegetables to every child in year 1 so they do not need to bring in any additional snack. We appreciate your support with our fruit only snack policy in Year 1.

Water Bottles:

Please make sure that your child comes to school each day with a named water bottle that contains water only. We encourage children to drink water regularly.

Homework:

• Read every night
• Doodle Maths for 10 minutes daily
• English/ handwriting sheet weekly

Reading:

As a school will place a high emphasis on teaching children to read and we are passionate about fostering a love of reading and books. Your child will read daily to an adult during their phonics lesson and will have additional reads where time allows. We ask you to please read with your child daily as this will have an impact on their reading progress as well as on all areas of their learning.  Please also write a short comment in your child's reading diary when you have listened to them read as we now expect every child to read at least 4 times a week minimum. Reading diaries are checked daily in Year 1.

Here is our LEARNING JOURNEY for this week!

Week beginning Monday 21st April

English:

We will continue to learn about what a sentence is.  

We will write a description of a toy.

We will write thought bubbles to describe how the toys are feeling when they have been left outside.

We will write a diary entry for one of the toys.

We will make our handwriting clear and consistent.

We will use the prefix 'un' in our writing.

We will continue to learn the Year 1 Common Exception Words.

We will begin to join some of our letters.

Maths:

We will continue our learning on division

We will share and group.

We will group equally and share equally.

We will consolidate our learning about fractions

Science:

We will plant beans and start our bean diary.

We will make a collage picture of a flower and label it.

We will learn the names of some common flowers.

Geography

We will begin to look at the weather in the UK and this week we will find out where the UK is .

Art

We will start our flora and fauna topic with Mrs Hancock

DT

We will continue to work on our tip up truck project

R.E.

We will be learning about caring for the world and finding out who can care it.

Music:

Not this week

P.E.

Our topics this half term are dance and sending and receiving games

Computers:

We will begin our topic on digital writing by exploring the keyboard.

P.S.H.E.

We will learn how to make an emergency call

Best Wishes

Kathryn Lindblad