Hello Year One,
We had a wonderful week and managed to complete all our projects!
It was great to see so many of you at 'Parent Consultations.' The children were so excited for you to see their work! They have put so much effort into their learning this half term and have enjoyed the activities they have carried out.
PE
PE kits will go home today. Some children have lost items of clothing from their kits. Despite ensuring that all clothes go back into PE bags there are still children with missing kit. Please check that your child has:
plimsoles (indoor PE)
trainers (outdoor PE)
shorts and a t-shirt (indoor PE)
track suit or jogging bottoms and sweatshirt(outdoor PE)
The children only need a drawstring PE bag to hang on their peg. This needs to stay in school all week. There is no need to wash the kit unless you would prefer to do so. PE kits are sent home on the last day of each half term.
Bags
The only other bag your child should bring to school is a book bag which should contain any school reading books and a reading record.
There are still some children bringing large backpacks and bags into school which they hang on their pegs. This causes coats, cardigans and jumpers to fall on the ground as there is little space in the cloakroom. Please refrain from sending these large bags into school.
Autumn Two
English
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.
We will begin our lessons with the story 'Farmer Duck' by Martin Waddle and Helen Oxenbury. The children will be making predictions, understanding what nouns and verbs are and learning how to construct a sentence. They will be writing a letter, creating instructions and explaining the events that occurred in the story.
We will follow this with poetry lessons. I will give you the details nearer the time.
Maths
We will begin by exploring the language of addition and subtraction. The children will revise identifying the whole and parts of a model. We will be using 1:1 correspondence to find fewer and more than a given number. The children will understand difference as the distance between two numbers.
I will update you as these lessons progress.
Science
The children will continue to explore seasonal change, particularly as Winter approaches. We will be creating a tally chart for the weather and will estimate rainfall. They will make a rain gauge and label it to show daily differences. There will be a focus on the symbols we use for weather and the children will record using these to show the changes on a daily basis.
As we explore the impact of the Winter weather we will research how animals and birds cope with extremes in temperature.
We will be learning about the human body will name and label the different parts.
Finally we will be learning about the senses. I will send further information nearer the time.
RE
The focus will be festivals and celebrations as we explore three festivals of light. As we learn the story of Diwali we will create rangoli patterns and make clay divas.
For Hannukah we will read the story which explains the reason for this festival. we will play the traditional bingo game that is enjoyed by many at this time.
We will listen to 'The Christmas Story' and I am sure the children will be busy rehearsing for our Christmas production nearer the time.
Art
We will be learning about the artist Claude Monet and will look at a selection of his work. The children will discuss the colours, style, atmosphere and techniques he used. they will learn the effect of thick and fine paintbrushes as they paint their own Monet style pictures!
We will be making, painting and varnishing clay divas.
D and T
We will be learning the story of 'The Gingerbread Man' and the children will make sliders to create a moving picture.
The children will be making Christmas cards with a lever mechanism.
PHSE
We will be celebrating differences and sharing how in ways we are the same. We will discuss how we feel now that we have settled into Year One.
The children will learn the song 'The Colours of friendship,' as we explore how it feels to make new friends.
Spellings
The children will be given a set of spellings every Friday. They can take them home and learn them by using look, cover, spell and check. There will be a revision of their learning every Friday as they spell the words without support.
I wish you all a happy and healthy break and look forward to seeing you all Monday 31st October!
Ms Davis
