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Year 1

Welcome to our Class Page

Hello Everyone and welcome to the SummerTerm of Year 1!

I hope that you have all enjoyed the Easter holiday and are eager to get back into the classroom. I am certainly excited to see you all. I have got lots of exciting things planned and I am looking forward to watching 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

Doors will open at the Annexe at 8.45am so that our day can start at 8.50am and school finishes at 3.10pm. 

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.

We will being focussing in particular on learning about what a sentence is and how to write one. We will be making sure that we know all the capital letters and how to write them.

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

In maths this half term we will be working on numbers to 40 and beyond.

Spring Term Dates for your diary

5th & 7th March - Parents Evening

PE

This year we are going to be having two P.E. lessons a week. This term they will take place on a Monday with Miss Hook and a Thursday afternoon with myself. 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 a 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. We appreciate your support with our fruit only snack policy in the Annexe.

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
• Maths on Doodle Maths
• English/ handwriting sheet

Reading:

Please read with your child daily as this will have an impact on all areas of their learning.  Please also write a short comment when you have listened to you child read as we now expect every child to read at least 4 times a week minimum. Reading diaries are checked daily in Year 1.

Spellings:

Your child has spellings to practise on 'Spelling Shed' every week. Please try to practise for 5-10 minutes each evening.

Here is our LEARNING JOURNEY for this week!

Week beginning Monday 15th April

English:

We will use a description to draw a picture that shows where the toys found in our classroom have come from.

We will write a description of one of the toys found in our classroom.

We will write two thought bubbles that show how the toys felt about being left outside.

We will write a diary entry to tell how one of the toys felt about being left outside.

We will learn about the prefix un.

Maths:

We will start our new topic Multiplication

We will make equal groups.

We will add equal groups.

We will make equal rows.

We will make doubles.

We will solve word problems about multiplication.

Science:

We will explain the chracteristics of an animal.

We will draw our tree in April.

History

We will look at how Teddy Bears have changed over time.

Art

We will do pencil drawings of flowers and insects and add them to our water colour drawings.

R.E.

We will look at how we know that babies are special.

Music:

We will begin to learn songs for the Highfields Festival

P.E.

Our topics this half term are gymnastics and 'Net and Wall'. We will also start practising for sports day.

Computers:

We will start our topic of digital writing and begin to get used to using a keyboard in the ICT suite.

P.S.H.E.

We will be looking at some basic first aid and what we can do in an emergency.

Best Wishes

Kathryn Lindblad