Noticeboard

REMEMBER THAT THIS IS A 4 DAY WEEK DUE TO INSET DAY ON FRIDAY. The school may also be closed on Thursday due to Industrial Strike Action.

• Our new overarching theme for Term 5 is – Bristol!
• This week you will receive an email about how to pay and the giving of consent for  our trip to…

The SS Great Britain – Friday, 19th May. We are very excited. Class teachers will let you know if you are needed for this trip if you have offered to help by the end of this week. If you are able to help and have still not let your class teacher know then you have until Thursday of this week to do so.
Thank you

• 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. 
• Could you please make sure children have a change of shoes suitable for PE in their PE kits as most of our PE will be outside this term. Thank you.

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

Daily Well Being Activities

Monday – Be Active – Favourite character fitness
Tuesday – Keep Learning – Watch ‘The Most Magnificent Thing’ story. What did the girl do when things didn’t go to plan?
Wednesday – Give –  Kindness. Each child takes a folded piece of paper with a classmate’s name on and tries to do or say something kind to them, without telling them they got their name. At the end of the day, see if anyone has noticed who was kind to them.

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: /n/ (as in gnat), /n/ (as in knit), /r/ (as in wrap), /s/ (as in listen) 
Grammar: Syllables & Compound words – playground, bedroom , something
Keywords for Spelling:  Seven, eight, eleven, twelve, when, their, old, made, suddenly, animals

Writing: Vocabulary: letter, word, finger space, sentence, punctuation, lower case, capital, full stop, adjective, noun

Session 1: Research and make notes about Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Session 2: Use facts from previous session to complete a fact file about Brunel
Session 3 Handwriting: Focus on correct letter formation to practise keywords.

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

Multiplication
Objectives for the week:
Find and count equal groups (including in arrays) 
Link repeated addition to arrays 
Group arrays in different ways
Count in multiples of 2, 5 and 10 from 0 to answer questions involving x facts.
Solve one step problems involving multiplication by using concrete objects, pictorial representations and arrays with support of the teacher.

Wider Curriculum

PE  SHINE Outside Games Session – Skills for athletics – Javelin
Music To explore the correlation between pitch and high/low notation. Session 2 of our ‘Water’ unit.
PSHE Making friends and Being my own best friend – Through circle times and discussions
Science Label the parts of a plant/Flower and discuss their function for their health and how this compares to us, humans! (This may be carried through to Week 3)
Art Silhouettes in the style of Banksy. Discuss and look at the work of Banksy. Use a print of a brick wall to create a silhouette of either Brunel and /or the SS Great Britain. 
History To research the life of Brunel and his impact on the world and Bristol! Complete a fact sheet and contribute to the class timeline with the main events of his life.

Year 1 Reading Stars

Silver Award –
Cherry Class – Joey Etta
Bluebell Class – Daisy

Gold Award –
Bluebell- Alex

Any Headteacher’s Awards will be presented at the end of each term.

Bluebell Class – Thomas

Cherry Class – Emily