Thank you to all the children of our two Year 1 classes. You have all been amazing, engaged and enthusiastic with your learning, kind, polite and respectful. Thank you too for all the parents amazing support. It’s been a great year and all the Year 1 team will miss you all and wish you happy holidays and all the best for Year 2!
Noticeboard
This week: Make sure you check for any lost property and don’t forget to collect any medication from the office on the last day. You should have received a letter about this already.
Last week of Term –
Wednesday 19th July : Toy Museum Day
Children are invited to bring in 1 toy and any pictures or lists they have made at home about toys and games our parents and grandparents had and played.
Last Day: Friday 21st July
(Non Uniform Day with a donation for FHIS)
Your children will be bringing home their work books from the year. We will be keeping their current writing book as this will be passed up to Year 2 for them to continue working in.
School Starts Back:
Monday 4th September 2023
Daily Well Being Activities
Monday – Connect – Team challenge
Tuesday – Reflection- Take part in the Leavers Assembly and use as a time for reflection.
Wednesday – Be Active – Dance along to Cotton-eye-Joe
Thursday – Thankfulness – Remember something to be thankful for, and relax and do a colouring sheet.
Toy and Games Museum Day (History)
Children to share the toys, pictures and lists of games brought in with each other. Discuss as a class things they notice that the choices have in common from the present examples.
To look in more details at the toys from the Victorian era and look at the similarities and differences. Why are there changes.
Photos and thoughts to be shared in class Learning Journey books for them to also reflect again next year in their new classes.
English
Phonics: Completion of Phase 5c
Writing –
Session 1 : Write a message to leave in your tray for the New Year 1 children.
Session 2: Poetry Comprehension task – Read the beginning of the poem Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson and answer the questions.
Session 3: Can you spot the mistakes in these summer holiday postcards? Check for correct punctuation, spelling and capital letters. Write the postcard out again correctly so that it makes sense.
Session 4: Handwriting
Reading: Focus: Reading for Pleasure
- Read as part of a group. What books do you enjoy reading and why? 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 answer written questions.
- In reading groups, continue to continue on phonic and CEW recognition gaps identified.
Whole Class – Planned story sessions each day.
Maths
Mental Oral/Warm Up
Daily count
Recall number facts within 10 and 20
Session 1: Addition and Subtraction to 20 – Mosaic – Solve the calculations to reveal the hidden picture. Each answer has a special colour.
Session 2: 2D shape hunt – Count and colour the 2D shapes hidden in this summer scene.
Session 3: Summer Fruits Fractions – Match the correct fractions of the fruits.
Session 4: Telling the Time – It’s time to go on holiday. Use the clocks to help plan the trip.
Wider Curriculum
SHINE PE- Outdoor Team Games
Music- To read and perform a four bar notated rhythm which we composed last week.
To add an ‘ostinato’ and perform as a Rondo.
PSHE- Transition
We are also hoping to release our butterflies! Fingers crossed!
Year 1 Reading for the stars
Silver Award:
Cherry Class – Ofri
Bluebell Class – Jack
Gold Award:
Cherry Class – Jasper
Bluebell Class – Joe W
Head Teacher’s Award:
Cherry Class – Joey Archie
Bluebell Class – Elliot Alex Ivy Annabelle Elena Abigail Joe W Amelia
Cherry Class – Ayaan and Zach
Bluebell Class – Ivy