20th December- End of term

Today we break up for the Christmas holidays and we have been overwhelmed by the kind words, cards and gifts from our Year 1 families. A huge thank you from the whole team!

We have had a wonderful, festive week with lots of Christmas fun! Thank you for joining us for our Christmas performance earlier in the week. The children were amazing and we are so proud of them all.

This week we have been thinking about the true meaning of Christmas and why celebrating the birth of Jesus is such a special time for Christians. They have been learning about advent and thinking about what they are thankful for this Christmas time.

We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a very happy new year! 

See you on Tuesday 7th January 2025.

Best wishes,

Mrs Allery, Mrs Stoodley & Mrs Samtani

Home Learning:

My Maths and Numbots log ins are stuck into the front of your child's Reading Record.

Phonics: TwinklGo - Type TwinklGo into your browser. Type the following code RA5690. You will find some phonics games which you can play with your children to support their phonics learning. If you play Level 5 games please select week 1-10 as this will link with what we have been learning in class.

We have also 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 getting colder 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 7th January- Return to school

Monday 13th January- Forest school Mondays begin (please wear PE kit every Monday through this half term)

Tuesday 21st January- FROGS Drama workshop

Thursday 6th February- Year 1 Class Worship in the hall (Bourne & Stour)

Key Information:

Please wear PE kits on a Wednesday.

Best wishes,

The Year 1 Team

Mrs Allery, Mrs Stoodley and Mrs Samtani