Week beginning 7th April

As another term comes to an end in Year 1, we think about how far all of the children have come since September and look ahead to a busy Summer term beginning in a couple of weeks' time! 

This week, the children have enjoyed lots of learning tasks including: drawing using charcoal, eating hot cross buns and writing some amazing non- fiction reports about the seasons. 

A huge thank you to everyone who attended our Easter craft session this week. We really hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as the children did!

We return to school on Tuesday 22nd April. In the meantime, we wish you all a very restful, sunny and happy Easter.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Allery, Mrs Stoodley & Mrs Hall

Worship:

The worship theme this week is:

Learning this week:

English - 

Maths - 

RE -

Phonics - 

Art -

Home Learning:

My Maths and Numbots log ins are stuck into the front of your child's Reading Record. We would love to see more children logging into Numbots, it is a great resource and a fun way for your children to build fluency in maths. Please speak to your child's teacher if you need any support with this.

Phonics: We have attached some information and further home learning at the bottom of this page focusing on the new graphemes we have been learning this year. 

Additional help with reading/phonics:

If you are wondering how you can provide general support for your child at home, our advice is to hear them read as often as possible. Please do not worry if your child brings home the same book from time to time- this is to gain confidence and fluency before moving onto different sounds in other books.

We also have an excellent link to some high quality texts that you may want to consider when choosing children’s books to read or buy!

Additional Maths:

By the end of Year 1, children are expected to:

• count forwards and backwards in ones to 100
• be able to count in 2s, 5s and 10s
• find one more and one less than a given number up to 100
• recognise the value of all coins
• know number bonds (numbers that add together) to total 10 and 20.

These are excellent skills to be practising at home, although we stress that they will be covered over the course of the school year.

Messages:

It is really important to put children’s names in all their clothes, on packed lunch boxes, water bottles, coats etc- otherwise they do not go home with the correct child. We already have some unclaimed and unnamed items from this week. If you could all check that all items are named, we would really appreciate it. 

Please could water bottles be placed into a plastic bag in their school bag to protect school reading books. All water bottles must only contain water and NOT squash please. 

Please note, our fruit at school is delivered on a Monday, but sometimes later in the day. Please could you provide your child with a snack on a Monday to avoid them getting hungry if our fruit has not been delivered. 

It is still fairly cold and we have had a few rainy days too. Please can you try to ensure the children all have a coat with them, as we do outside, even if it is a little wet or cold. 

Key Dates:  

Tuesday 22nd April - return to school for Summer term

Wednesday 30th April - Year 1 visit to the New Forest Wildlife Park. Please ensure you have read and responded to the letter regarding this.

Key Information:

Please wear PE kits on a Wednesday.