Mrs Lindblad's Class 2024 - 2025
Mrs Lindblad
Year 1
Welcome to our Class Page
Hello Everyone and WELCOME BACK!
I hope that you have all had a lovely Christmas 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 'Whatever Next' and our writing will then be based around this book.
In maths this half term we will be learning about 2D & 3D shapes, patterns, height and length, numbers to 40, addition and subtraction word problems, multiplication, division and fractions . We will be learning to count up to and an back from 100 so if you could practise this at home that would be helpful .
Spring Dates for your diary
11th & 13th March Parents Evening
PE
This year we will have two P.E. lessons a week. This term they will take place on a Wednesday and a Friday afternoon. Mr. Bundy will teach PE on the Friday. 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 10th February
English:
We will continue to learn about what a sentence is.
We will write the middle and end section of our new story
We will use adjectives 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 represent numbers using base 10 materials.
We will compare numbers to 40.
We will find out how much more one number is than another.
We will find patterns in numbers.
We will consolidate our learning on numbers to 40.
Science:
We will go on a senses walk.
We will complete activities to see if all our bodies do the same things.
Geography
We will compare Shanghai to Alsager
Art
DT
We will continue to work on our tip up truck project
R.E.
We will find about the Jewish people's special relationship with God.
We will find out what the Tenak says about God.
Music:
We will continue our Barnaby Bear project with Victoria from Love Music Trust
P.E.
Our topics this half term are ball skills and invasion games.
Computers:
This half term we will be learning about moving a robot with Mrs. Harry.
P.S.H.E.
We will learn about allergies.
Best Wishes
Kathryn Lindblad