Week ending 27th May 2022

 Hello Year One,

What a wonderful way to end this half term!

The children have loved this celebratory week!

They have drawn portraits of Queen Elizabeth and designed Jubilee hats for her to wear.

The cake making was not as successful as I would have liked but they enjoyed the process!

They loved learning the lyrics to 'happy' especially as it is Year One's class song. They hear this song when we need motivating or cheering up and it works! They change for PE to 'Happy' and sometimes we just have a good old dance!

The children were very proud to decorate Jubilee plates and I am glad they have a souvenir from this special time in history.

We have done lots of research on Queens, especially Queen Elizabeth 2nd and as it is her Platinum Jubilee week the children wrote about why the country will be celebrating over the coming week, some facts about Queen Elizabeth and how we would be celebrating at school.

The children designed fruit and vegetable prints and chose the colours they wanted to use. The final prints have been sent home and I am sure you will enjoy them. We even talked about what type of clothing the design could be used on as they are so pretty and colourful!

We have been learning the value of coins this week. The children can find values up to 20p using different coins, so if you go shopping maybe they could have a go!

Please ask your children to read as much as possible during the break. They have all changed their books and taken a couple of extra books home for the holiday.

If your child was give a phonics sheet please practice with them as often as you can. You can use other words or make up alien words with the specific digraphs. 

I hope you all have a lovely restful break and look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 7th June.

Ms Davis

Week ending 19th May 2022

 Hello Year One,

I have to start by saying how proud I am of all of you for your amazing performance in our assembly. You had so many lines to remember, a song, a dance and a whole story to role play and you did it perfectly!

YEAR ONE BEAR

We have a bear in our cupboard. He lives in a suitcase and loves being taken on adventures. He loves to stay at children's homes and experience life with them for a day or two. He is called Bear and he doesn't want to change his name.

He enjoys the simple things in life, like eating breakfast with a friend. He loves trips out to the park and prefers to be hugged at night. He loves having his photo taken!

Today he went home with Macy. He was very excited! Macy will take good care of Bear and return him to school on Monday. Macy will then be able to write about her adventures with Bear and maybe include some photos. 

Bear will go home with a different child every afternoon now and have a sleepover. Everyone will have a chance to take him home.

The children have been learning the value of coins up to 20p this week. It would be great if they could practice this over the weekend. You could ask your child to give you different amounts of money and let him/her work out which coins to use.

We read an amazing story this week called 'Anancy and Mr Drybone' by Fiona French. It is a West African traditional tale and the children loved it. A lot of writing has come from this story as the children have created lists, written character descriptions, created their own story map and planned their story sequences! Next week they will use all this preparation to write their own story in a similar style.

The children had great fun designing and making their masks! 

NEXT WEEK

English

We will be completing our stories next week and the children will be using adjectives to bring them to life!

The children will be revising split vowel digraphs and alien words. We will be writing about 'The Platinum Jubilee' and the reason why we will be celebrating. We will think about the different celebrations people will be having and how we at Little Heath will be celebrating.

Maths

We will continue to learn the value of coins and using combinations of coins especially when certain values are not represented.

ART/DT

The children will be drawing the face of Queen Elizabeth and creating a hat for her to wear at her Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

We will all be designing and painting a Jubilee celebration plate.

Year One will also be designing a pattern for a print.

On Thursday Year One will be making Jubilee cupcakes which they will bring home to eat.

PLATINUM JUBILEE AFTERNOON

As I informed you a couple of weeks ago we are holding a Platinum Jubilee Celebration afternoon on Friday, 27th May for parents. The event will start at 2.00pm and will take place on the school grounds. All the classes will be performing a song from every decade that the queen has been on the throne. Children will be sat in class groupings but parents will be allowed to sit with their children as long as the class teachers know that you have your child. On the day the children should come to school dressed in red, white and blue, refreshments will be for sale during the afternoon. At the end of the event children will be allowed to go home with their parents if the event finishes early. As the event is taking place outside it will be weather dependent. Fingers crossed though that it will be able to go ahead and help give us a rousing send off into the half-term break. If you would like to make a donation towards the refreshments, please send your donations in from Thursday 26th May. Please label any boxes you would like returned to you.

I will be looking forward to seeing you on Friday!

Just a few more pictures from our Willows Farm trip!

I wish you all a restful and happy weekend.

Ms Davis

Week ending 13th May 2022

 Hello Year One,

We have had a fabulous week. Our trip was amazing and the children were so excited! We packed so much into the day. The morning was taken up by learning about farm animals, feeding animals and holding some smaller creatures. The children saw a cow being milked and they could name all the food items we make from milk. We went on a tractor ride to see more animals.

 

The children watched a show on stage and sang and danced in the rain!

They actually milked a cow!

They had a tractor ride to see where Peter Rabbit and his friends live!

Then it was time for lunch!

The afternoon was full of fun as the children managed to have a turn on many of the activities !

It really was a fabulous day and one I am sure they will always remember.

The coach ride home was strangely quiet!

We have also been carrying out pre and post visit activities as the children have been learning to name animals and their young. They will be describing farm animals next week.

We have worked on 'finding the difference' in our math's lessons. 

Today the children wrote a series on instructions on how to plant a bean. 

Next Week

English

We will be starting a new book next week called Anancy and Mr Drybone. It is a West African traditional tale. Our work will come from this brilliant story as the children will write character descriptions, plan a story by mapping and use this to sequence their own story.

Maths

We will begin exploring coins and their value. The children will compare the value of coins, calculate coin combinations for values that do not have a designated coins below 10p.

Art

The children will begin to explore patterns next week. They will be creating a variety of prints. They will be designing a repeated pattern which they will create using fruit and vegetables.

Geography

Next week the post farm visit activities will be completed as we describe a farm animal in great detail. 

It will be our class assembly on Friday 20th May at 9am. Thank you for sending in the change of clothes. I know the children are very excited to share their learning with you.

I wish you a relaxing and happy weekend.

Ms Davis

Week ending 6th May 2022

 Dear Year One,

We have been busy!

We are beginning to work on our class assembly which will take place on Friday 20th May. The children are excited to share their work with you. Thank you for sending the costumes in, as the sooner we get them the easier it will be nearer the time of the assembly.

This week we have been exploring comparison and difference in our maths lessons. You can continue this at home by showing the children two sets of objects with different values and asking them to find the difference or asking which group has fewer and then expecting them to prove this to you.

For English we have learned the story of the Little Red Hen and the children were able to write accurate recounts of the story.

The children are enjoying finding out about famous queens, especially as it will be Queen Elizabeth 2nd Platinum Jubilee soon. We have lots of fun ideas to help us celebrate!

There was lots of action in the technology room this week as the children made their salads. They chose really varied and interesting vegetables and had lots of ideas for dressings! I hope they were tasty!

NEXT WEEK

Maths

We will continue to explore comparison and difference. we will also work on odd and even numbers so you could talk about this with the children over the weekend.

English/geography/history

Next week Year One will be completing pre and post farm visit activities. These include writing about the animals we see and learning the names of male and female, adult and child.

The children will complete a comprehension task on Queen Elizabeth 1st. 

We will be spotting 'igh,' 'ie,' 'y' and 'i-e' in text.

Willows Farm trip

Tuesday 10th May is the day we have been waiting for! Please ensure your child comes to school in non-uniform and with long sleeves and trousers as they may wish to access the big slides. 

We have pre and post visit activities to carry out and will learn so much about farms, animals and crops.

We will not be going into the on-site shop as it is extremely expensive and we honestly won't have time. Your child will not need any money on the day of the trip.

Please arrive promptly on Tuesday. We will be leaving Little Heath just after 9am.

Please remember to send a packed lunch and at least two drinks for your child. I would advise against anything chocolate as the weather is so warm at the moment. 

I hope you have a peaceful weekend and enjoy the beautiful weather!

Ms Davis