Thank you to you all for helping to support your children in their return to school and to start Year 1 so positively.
We all had an amazing (and hot!) week last week. You played your part in supporting this. We could not have hoped for a better start to the year. We are all looking forward to the year ahead with your children.
Upcoming key dates:
Tuesday 12th September – Welcome to Year 1 meeting and reminders about supporting reading and phonics with your child at home. 2:50pm in your child’s classroom. For those unable to make it, an information page will be made available.
Monday 18th September – Year 1 WOW Day – To launch our new topic ‘Beegu and Me’ children are invited to dress in clothes showing what they might want to be when they are older or just clothes that they feel special or comfortable in. We will be looking at ourselves and what makes us special.
Monday 9th October – School closed to children – INSET day
Wednesday 11th October – Individual School Photos
Tuesday 17th October- Phonics learn-along in classes after drop off
Friday 20th October – End of Term 1. Non uniform day. Contributions to FHIS.
English
Phonics
Revision of Phase 4 Phonics (Taught in Reception)
Revisit graphemes and CEWs already taught from phase 4.
Teach the adding of suffixes: -s and -es and read by blending. e.g.chairs foxes thinks wishes
Blending for reading: E.g thinks dishes flosses
Segmenting for spelling: E.g. chimps speeches
Write a dictated sentence: E.g The tree had thick branches.
Handwriting
Using graphemes revisited in phonics and words using s and es for plurals. Complete a dictated sentence. Caterpillar Family Sheet
Writing
ELLI WRITING – Write about the ELLI animal they feel most like when they are learning. Children are encouraged to write why they feel they work most like the animal they have chosen. All children will be encouraged to say each sentence out loud before writing it down.
Reading
All children have now received a book based on their end of Reception assessments. We will be reading one to one with children throughout the week and changing books. Please ensure books are brought in daily.
Maths
This week we are practising our counting skills and are looking at lots of different ways to represent numbers.
Learning Objectives:
- Count, read and write numbers to 10 in numerals and words
- To represent numbers to 10 in different ways, using objects and pictorial representations.
- Count to 10, forwards and backwards beginning with 1 or 0 from any given number
- To count out objects accurately using 1:1 correspondence to 10 (and 20).
Wider Curriculum
PE- SHINE Outside Session – Team Games
Class PE – Fundamental Movement Skills: Footwork Patterns and One Leg Balance
PSHE – It’s Good to be Me- helping myself and others to keep safe at school and in my classroom!
I know how to keep myself. Friends and grown ups safe – distance, handwashing, following our agreed rules.
R+WV – Religion and World Views (Formally RE) – Who and what is special to me?
Begin to understand what it means to belong within a family and a community;
Exploring people, places, experiences, feelings, stories, objects, beliefs, values
What groups do we belong to both in and out of school?
Art
Look at the work of three famous artists and use their inspiration to complete a self-portrait.
Exploring the ELLI animals
Art – Tortoise – Using small pieces of coloured paper, create a shell for a tortoise using your patience and stickability.
Daily Well Being Activities
Monday – Connect – Throw an imaginary ball (or a treat of your choice) to a friend and call out their name
Tuesday – Take Notice- Make a feelings wheel and move the pointer to show us how you’re feeling
Wednesday – Be Active – Try some Yoga poses
Thursday – Keep Learning – Tell us about a new toy or activity you have tried
Friday – Give – What’s your favourite food?