Hello everyone,

 

The children looked amazing in their red items of clothing. Thank you for your kind donations.

 It was wonderful to meet so many of you at the parent consultation this week. The children have settled in so well to Year 1!

 

Please find below a selection of photos showing some of the things that the children have been doing this week.

Firework pictures

Investigating if the oldest children were the tallest in the class.

Painting clay decorations.

Next term- an insight into what the children will learning

Maths – Place value within 10, addition and subtraction within 10, 2D and 3D shapes

 

English – Narrative-stories with predictable phrasing

The children will be making predictions, and continue to learn about how to construct a sentence. They will be writing a letter, creating instructions and explaining the events that occurred in a story.

Phonics lessons will take place every day. Group reading will be carried out three times a week and handwriting lessons will take place three times a week

 

Science –  Seasonal changes and the weather

 

History– The children will be learning about Castles

 

R.E. – The children will be learning about Diwali, Hanukkah and Christmas.

  

Art –  We will be learning about the artist Claude Monet and will look at a selection of his work

 

D&T- The children will make sliders to create a moving picture. They will also be making Christmas cards with a lever mechanism

 

PSHE – Celebrating differences

 

ICT – Using technology and using the internet

 

Spellings

Next term, the children will be given a set of spellings every Friday.

 

We hope you all have a wonderful half term and we look forward to seeing you on Monday 30th October.

 

Mrs Flatley, Mrs Blatch & Mrs Phillips

 

Hello everyone, we have had a very busy but fun week. On Tuesday, the children enjoyed visiting other classes for friendship groups and today they watched the Year 5 assembly.

 

In phonics this week the children reviewed the Phase 5 graphemes ay, ou, oy and ea. They also revised the tricky words all, are, I, of, one, here and today.

 

Next Week

 

English

The children will be writing about characters from the book Farmer Duck. They will be forming sentences and concentrating on the correct punctuation.

 

Maths

The children will be counting backwards within 10.

 

Science

The children will be investigating if the oldest children in the class are the tallest.

Also, we will be focusing on the changes to the weather, the environment and wildlife in the season of Autumn.

 

Art

Creating a firework picture.

 

PHSE

The children will be learning about the rights and responsibilities when being a member of a class. They will write and draw a picture of themselves learning well with their friends

Notes

Please ensure that all belongings are named clearly. The children have begun changing into their PE kits and many items of their school uniform were unnamed.

 

I look forward to seeing you all next week for parents' consultations. Please make sure you have made an appointment.

 

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

 

 Mrs Flatley, Mrs Blatch and Mrs Phillips

 Good afternoon,

 

It was lovely to see so many of you this morning at the Harvest Festival Coffee morning. The children have loved learning their songs and I’m sure you will agree that they sang beautifully. Well done everyone!

 

The daily phonic lessons are going really well. This week the children began learning the Phase 5 graphemes ay, ou, oy and ea. They also revised the tricky words said, says, you, do, like, little, push, put, full and pull.

I have sent home a list of the tricky words. Please continue to practise them at home. Thank you!

 

Next Week

 

English

The children will be learning about nouns, verbs and plurals.

 

Maths

The children will focus on the vocabulary fewer, more, less and the same.

 

Science

Identifying the parts of the body they use to see, hear, taste, smell and feel.

 

History

Finding out what toys were like at different times in the past.

PSHE

The children will be exploring differences and how they make us all special and unique.

 

We hope you have a wonderful weekend

 

Mrs Flatley, Mrs Blatch & Mrs Phillips

 

Hello Year One,

 

We have had a fantastic week! On Thursday we were invited to Christ Church to experience Harvest through a variety of activities. The children were given the opportunity to look at harvest from the sea, the earth, the grain and from animals. We had a lovely morning and the children were so well behaved. Well done Year 1!

NEXT WEEK

English

To celebrate National Poetry Day on Thursday 5^th October, the children will be learning about rhyming couplets.

 

Maths

The children will be counting backwards within 10 and finding 1 less.

 

RE

The children will continue to learn about harvest traditions.

 

Science

Drawing and labelling the basic parts of the human body.

 

In phonics this week the children were looking at the following tricky words:

• was
• they
• some
• come
• were
• there

 Could you please practice reading these words at home.  Thank you for your continued support.

 

We wish you all a restful weekend.

Mrs Flatley, Mrs Blatch & Mrs Phillips

 

Good afternoon,

We have had a very busy week and the children have worked so hard. Well done everyone!

 

Next week, in English the children will be writing descriptive words and phrases about a character from the story Farmer Duck. They will also continue to practise their letter formation and handwriting.

 

The daily phonic lessons are going really well. This week they reviewed the phase 3 digraphs sh, zz, ss, qu, ng, ck, th, ng, nk . They also revised the tricky words what, when, he, she, we, be, me, have and love.

Next week, the children will start phase 4.

 

Please find below the link for Little Wandle where there is a wealth of information for parents:

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/

 

In Maths, the children were counting objects and representing the amount on a tens frame. 

Next week, the children will learn to recognise numbers as words, count on from any number, count backwards from 10 and be introduced to the language 1 more.

 

RE

The children will continue to find out about being thankful and harvest traditions.

On Thursday, the children will be visiting Christ Church at 10am to partake in experience Harvest.

 

History

The children will find out about the toys that their parents and grandparents may have played with.

 

Art

Observational drawings of toys

 

Reminder

Can you please ensure that you comment in your child’s reading record each week. Thank you.

 

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Flatley, Mrs Blatch and Mrs Phillips

 

Hello,

We have had another busy week in Year 1. The children have been visiting other classrooms for friendship groups and voting for their house team captains.

In English the children began to read the story Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury. They were able to identify the repetitive phrases in the story and went on to make fantastic predictions about what will happen next in the story. On Monday, they will be finding out how the story ends.

Next week, the children will begin to have handwriting lessons. They will be forming the letters s, a and t in sand and then writing them.

 

The children began their phonics lessons this week. They revised the digraphs ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, er, oi, ear, air and ear. They also reviewed the tricky words no, go, so, my, by, to, into out and the.

Next week, the children will continue to revise the above digraphs and also sh, zz, ss, qu, ng, ck, th, ng, nk.

 

In maths, the children were sorting and counting objects.

Next week, the children will count objects from a larger group and represent the amount on a tens frame. 

 

Science

Animals will be our focus next week. The children will sort them into the categories listed below:

-          Mammals

-          Birds

-          Fish

-          Reptiles

-          Amphibians

-          insects

RE

The children will find out about being thankful and harvest traditions.

 

Reminder

On Friday morning your children will be having their individual photographs taken.

 

Mrs Flatley, Mrs Blatch and Mrs Phillips

Hello and welcome to Year 1!

The children have had a lovely start to the new school year and a very busy week. They were all excited to see each other and it was lovely seeing them spending time with each other again. They have settled in very well and are picking up the new routines quickly.

 

Year 1 have been busy exploring their classroom and their new outside area. They have particularly enjoyed building with the big and small Lego, modelling with play dough, planting daffodil bulbs and writing and drawing in the writing area.

 

Please see below a brief insight of the topics we will be covering this half term.

English

Stories with predictable phrases

Maths

Place value within 10

Addition and subtraction within 10

Science

Animals including humans

History

Toys past and present

Art

Observational drawings

PSHE

Being me in my world

ICT

Using technology

Using the internet

RE

Being thankful and harvest traditions

 

Reminders:

Please ensure that all belongings are named clearly.

PE days are Monday, Thursday and Friday.

 

Thank you for coming to 'Meet The Teacher' on Thursday. It was lovely to meet so many of you.

Have a great weekend

Mrs Flatley, Mrs Blatch and Mrs Phillips