Year 1 Learning. Term 5, Week 1 – Henleaze Infant School

Welcome to Term 5 – First Day Back – Monday, 17th April

Our Theme for Learning this term: BRISTOL

Well done to all our amazing performers. You were all incredible and you kept the final performance to parents as your best!!! Thank you too for the lovely flowers for the staff. They were really appreciated. We all felt so proud of our Year 1s and it was such a joy to see how much they all enjoyed themselves too.

Thank you too for the amazing eggs! Year 1, they looked amazing and some of them rolled such a long way too!!! See the newsletter for photos.

Noticeboard

Choir Members – May Fair Performance – Saturday, 20.5.23

If your child is a member of the school choir then they will be performing at the May Fair. This is advance warning to try and keep the date free. More information will follow shortly about timings etc.

This week you will be getting information and method of payment for our Year 1 Trip to the SS Great Britain. This will be taking place on Friday, 19th May.

You will find below a grid showing the sessions to be taught each week. They do not exactly follow days as each class has different sessions due to support and PE times being different but it allows you to see the week as a snapshot of sessions.

We will always aim to get outside, whatever the weather, as much as possible so children will really need a waterproof coat each day.

Please send in any cereal or shoe sized boxes, cardboard rolls, toothpaste boxes if you can. We will be building bridges this week. Thank you

Well Being Activities

Monday – Connect – Give your friend verbal instructions of how to draw a hot air balloon on their whiteboard.
Tuesday – Take Notice- Tell me how you feel sheets
Wednesday – Be Active – Fun Spring Dance workout
Thursday – Keep Learning – Talk through these Resilience cards together. Colour in a set to remind you.
Friday – Give – Tell your partner what you are thankful for about school.

English

Phonics: Phase 5c
Information for Sounds and Words Books:

Children will write in these sounds and keywords – Differentiated where necessary. Please use the books for the children to practice in.

Teach alternative spellings of phonemes: /ch/ (as in picture), /ch/ (as in catch), /j/ (as in fudge), /m/ (as in lamb)
Grammar: Suffix ing, ed and est (without changing root)
Keywords for Spelling: don’t, here, saw, about, came, very, your, make, put , Oh
Writing: Vocabulary: letter, word, finger space, sentence, punctuation, lower case, capital, full stop, adjective, noun
Writing Focus:
Session 1: Labelling 3 diagrams of different types of bridges on the first page of a booklet. Research of different types of bridges and then using this to design a bridge.
Session 2: Grammar: Exploring the different parts that make up a bridge and what their purpose is. Turn verbs into their progressive form using the suffix -ing. Use these words to make sentences to describe what each part does for the bridge.
Session 3: Description of their Bridges with a photo to create a fact page on the final page of the booklet. Includes factual sentences, materials and any extra information.
Session 4- Handwriting:
Focus on correct letter formation to practice keywords. Some children to write up their competition entries.

Reading: Focus: Non- Fiction Texts. Use a contents and Index page. How are these books laid out differently to fiction?

Read as part of a group. Look at front cover details and explore making predictions, using phonetic knowledge to decode unknown words and to extend vocabulary. Read aloud and look at increasing fluency and use discussion as a group to discuss comprehension and start to answer written questions.
In reading groups, continue to continue on phonic and CEW recognition gaps identified.

Whole Class – Planned story sessions each day.

Maths

Introduction to Multiplication – Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and the relationship between multiplication and repeated addition.

To count in 2s, 5s and 10s
To make equal groups
To add equal groups
To write repeated addition number sentences to represent adding equal groups

Session 1 :

To count in 2s, 5s and 10s
To add equal groups
Recap counting in 2s, 5s and 10s as an introduction to multiplication

Session 2 :

To count in 2s, 5s and 10s
To make equal groups
To add equal groups
To write repeated addition number sentences to represent adding equal groups
Still using counting in 2s, 5s and 10s introduce how to record repeated addition as a number sentence

Session 3 :

To count in 2s, 5s and 10s
To make equal groups
To add equal groups
To write repeated addition number sentences to represent adding equal groups
Today’s focus is to continue to practice and make sure that recorded repeated number sentences are secure.

Session 4 :

To count in 2s, 5s and 10s
To make equal groups
To add equal groups
To write repeated addition number sentences to represent adding equal groups
Using what we know about counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and introducing reasoning problems with true and false questions.

Session 5 :

To count in 2s, 5s and 10s
To make equal groups
To add equal groups
To write repeated addition number sentences to represent adding equal groups
Test knowledge of repeated addition with problem solving questions.

Wider Curriculum

PE- SHINE Outside Games Session – Skills for athletics

Jasmine PE Physical Manipulation e.g. throwing and catching Coordination- sending and receiving

R+WV First session in our new unit: Why is our World special?

Computing Introduction to Coding using Purple Mash

Music To explore sounds of the sea using voices and instruments.

To know how to handle and make sounds on several instruments.
To choose sounds to represent ideas e.g.: calm stormy sea
To play quietly or loudly to represent calm or stormy ocean

PSHE Families – Learning about selves through various activities.
Learning about the school values and acting upon these.
Following class rules and understanding school values.

Science/DT Building their bridges in groups and evaluating them after testing.

Year 1 Reading Stars Awards

Silver Award:
Cherry Class – Emilia

Gold Award:
Cherry Class – Archie

Headteacher’s Award:
Bluebell Class – Heerad
Cherry Class – James

Bluebell Class – Oscar

Cherry Class – Rosalie