Thank you to you all for helping to support your children in their return to school and to start Year 1 so positively. Please remember that we have our ‘Meet the teacher’ sessions on Tuesday this week- the information will be on the blog for those that cannot make it.
We all had an amazing 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.
Class Teachers
Daffodil Class: Mrs Hibbard (Mon-Wed) and Miss Quinn (Wed PM-Fri) – Mrs Stockford will be covering the end of Miss Quinn’s maternity leave.
Cherry Class: Miss Ross
daffodil@henleaze-inf.bristol.sch.uk
cherry@henleaze-inf.bristol.sch.uk
Diary dates
Wednesday 4th September – First Day of Term 1
Tues 10th September – Welcome to Year 1 meeting and reminders about supporting reading and phonics with your child at home. 3pm in your child’s classroom. For those unable to make it slides will be made available.
Monday 23rd 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.
Friday 4th October – Inset day– School closed to children
Tuesday 15th October – Phonics learn-a-long KS1 – 9am in classrooms.
Friday 25th October – End of Term 1. Non uniform day. Contributions to FHIS.
English
Phonics
This week we will be starting revision of Phase 4. In year 1 we start with a revision of sounds taught in Reception to ensure that children are secure in their decoding and blending skills before moving onto learning new sounds. This week we will be focusing on:
Spelling and handwriting
This week we will be practising forming our numbers correctly.
We will also be practising the spelling of our common exception words throughout the week: the, to ,no, go, I.
Writing
This week we will be writing a simple sentence about our holiday or anything else we would like to share with our new teachers.
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 playing lots of different maths games.
We will also be practising forming our numbers carefully in small groups.
- Count, read and write numbers to 10 in numerals
- 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 – We will be reading stories relating to our different ELLI animals and thinking about how they can help us in our learning.
We will also be establishing a set of rules for our PSHE/circle time sessions to help everyone feel safe and respected when discussing their feelings and things that are important to them.
Art – We will be using our ELLI animals as inspiration for lots of artwork to decorate our classrooms. See below.
Chameleon
We will be learning about primary and tertiary colours and will be experimenting with colour mixing, using the illustration in the story The Mixed Up Chameleon for inspiration.
Tortoise
We will be using our ‘stickability’ like the ELLI Tortoise to create a collage using small pieces of coloured paper to a create a shell for a tortoise.
Unicorn
We will also be using our imagination like the ELLI Unicorn to decorate a picture of a unicorn.