Please bring in junk modelling for bridge building over the next few weeks: boxes are great! Please ensure PE kits are back in school. We will be having a maths learn-along next week, see below for details.

Maths learn-along

On Monday 28th April you are invited to a ‘Maths Learn-along’. This will take place at approximately 9am straight after drop off in the morning similar to we did for phonics (we will just need to take the children in to register them first).

The focus for this has been chosen to be multiplication across the whole school. In Year 1 the introduction of multiplication might look different to what you expect as we introduce the concept as ‘repeated addition’ so that children understand the concept behind multiplication before we mention multiplication and times tables.

Diary dates

Monday 28th April – Year 1 maths learn-a-long – come in and see how we teach the beginnings of multiplication in maths 
Friday 2nd May – School Closed – INSET day
Monday 5th April – Bank holiday
Friday 16th May – Year 1 trip to the SS Great Britain.
Saturday 17th May – May Fair

English

Phonics

Reading
This week we will be continuing to look at the story of Goram and Ghyston the Bristol Giants. Please look out for an email about our new phonics book organisation.

Writing
We will creating story maps of the story and writing our own version of the story.

Maths   

This week will be continuing with our introduction to multiplication by looking at arrays and moving on to repeated addtion. We look forward to seeing you at the learn along!

Wider Curriculum

PE: Gymnastics: This week we will be exploring different balances.

Science: What features do animals have?

Computing – We continue coding; remember coding is creating a  specific set of instructions (algorithms) to create instructions on a computer programme. In our school we use Purple Mash to do this. 

DT: Inspired by the work of Brunel, we are starting to build bridges!

Religion and World Views: We will be exploring the world around us using our 5 senses.

Music: We will be exploring pulse and beat.