We will be making our 2 little pigs houses this week so please send in any boxes or things suitable for junk modelling that you may have. Thank you!

Dates

Tuesday 6th February – Safer Internet Day – We will be carrying out activities in school to raise awareness of internet safety.
Friday 9th February 2024 – Last day of term. Home clothes day. Optional donation for FHIS
Next term dates:
Friday 23rd January – Open morning – parents are invited to come into school to see their children’s work (approx 9am)
Tuesday 27th and Thursday 29th February – parents evening
Thursday 21st March – Year 1 performance

English 

Phonics: Phase 5a – Mastery
We will be carrying out mid-year assessments of the children’s phonic progress, using the phonemes taught so far.
Focus GPCs:  Revisit GPCs:  a-e  e-e  i-e  o-e
CEW to read and spell: called some come

Writing
Class text: The great race

The learning this week will be based around Chinese New Year. The children will learn about how this differs to New Years Eve celebrated on 31st December and discover new cultural traditions. The writing will be based on the zodiac legend ‘The great race’ which depicts how each zodiac was named after a different animal. After sequencing the story, the children will work in small groups to retell the story in different ways. As the emperor is looking for one more animal to join the race, the children will need to come up with their own animal to participate. The children will consider the challenges their animal might face and be ready to explain to the emperor why they did not come first.

Maths

Maths fluency/mental maths
-Count in 10s
-Count forwards/backwards within 100
-Number recognition within 100
-Recall of 1 more/less within 20 and 100
-Recall of 10 more/less within 100

Main Maths Learning
-To read and write numerals to 100
-To compare numbers within 100,
-To order at least five non-consecutive 2-digit numbers within 100, from least to greatest
Plus we will be carrying out assessment of maths learning

Wider Curriculum

PE – SHINE Outside Session 
Jasmine PE – Real Gym lesson 5. Continue with shapes and increase extension challenge.

Science/DT
We will be designing and building our three little pigs houses this week using our knowledge of different properties of materials that we have been learning about. Please send in boxes etc for junk modelling!

R+WV The Bible – Why is it important to Christians? Look at Old + New Testament and what they contain. Who was it written by?

Computing SAFER INTERNET DAY 6.2.24 Create a list and take photos of technology in school. Create a mini display of technology used in school (on large paper) and display outside classrooms – prompting parents to find other sources of technology at home and outside of school and send in pictures to share. 

PSHE – Celebrating my success – Create a medal to tell others about how you felt when you succeeded in a new challenge and how you celebrated it.

Bluebell- Lucy
Cherry – Freddy
Daffodil – Chester