Year 1 will be going on a walk around Henleaze in week 3 to look at the buildings and study the local area, as well as looking for human and physical features. We will be looking for parent helpers to support with this so please get in touch via the class emails if you are able to help on Monday 13th November (see class timings below).
Upcoming Key Dates
Monday 6th November – Closing date for Internet Safety Mascot Competition
Thursday 9th November– SENDCo drop in sessions. Informal opportunity to meet and speak to Mrs Flook our interim SENDCO. Year 1: 11.00 am – 12.00 am
Thursday 9th November -SEND Parent carers Coffee Morning 9:00am
Friendship Week – 13th – 17th November
Monday 13th November – Local walk around Henleaze. Parent helpers needed please. Cherry (leaving at 1pm), Bluebell (leaving at 2pm), Daffodil (leaving at 11am)
Children in Need – Friday 17th November – Wear something spotty and bring in a donation
Henleaze Christmas Fayre – Wednesday 6th December – This will be after school where members of the school Choir will perform to open the event. More details to follow to the choir members.
Henleaze Infants Christmas Carol Service – Thursday 7th December – St Peter’s Church – 2pm – All Welcome!
English
Phonics: New Phase Teaching – Phase 5
Phonics /spelling Daily (5x sessions)
New graphemes: oi, ir, ue (glue and clue).
Please help your children to read these and practise spelling them in their red sounds book.
Keywords: Recap – Read by sight and spell: you they my her are all
Writing
Send for a Superhero – The children will be learning a new story: Send for a superhero by Michael Rosen. We will be doing some work around conjunctions (joining words such as ‘and’ and ‘because’) and using them as well as adjectives in simple letter writing.
Handwriting: Correctly forming graphemes and common exception words using the 4 formation families.
Reading
Please continue to read regularly at home, marking on your child’s bookmark and writing a short comment in their yellow reading records. Children are beginning to achieve Bronze ‘Read for the Stars’ awards for their commitment to reading at home. Well done.
Maths
This week we will be revising our number bonds to 10 and learning how to work systematically to find all the number bonds to 10. This week will also include assessment of our addition and subtraction block in math.
Wider Curriculum
SHINE PE
PE- Real Dance- to respond to different music to create a repeatable sequence using a variety of shapes and transitions
Science- This week, we are beginning our weather watch study. We will use our weather symbols to track the weather every day.
PSHE– How am I similar to the people in my class?
R+WV- How is Diwali celebrated?
Music- To understand rondo form and to create a class composition based on this structure.
Geography- Exploring using a key when creating a map.
Art- Using our homemade printing device to make a firework picture.
Bluebell- Joseph
Daffodil- Rosa
Cherry- Frankie