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This Week:

Friday 9th September: Children who completed the Summer Library Gadgeteers Challenge are invited to bring in their named certificates and medals to show in our Celebration Assembly.

Welcome to Year 1 and exploration of new routines and grown ups! Please make sure you have read our previous blog post with all our general information about Year 1.

We are all really looking forward to welcoming you all into Year 1. We start with a full week. We have worked hard to ensure that we will have lots of exploration time and fun activities to help support us all in getting to know each other and learn our new routines. As a team, we are all looking forward to the year ahead with your children.

Next Week:

Monday 12th September
WOW Day – We will be having a WOW day in Year 1 to help kickstart our new Learning themes.
We are inviting the children 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.

• Remember that Thursday 15th September next week there is a brief meeting time just before pick up at 3pm – 3:20pm on the Year 1 patio. We will introduce the Year 1 team and answer any questions about the information given on our blog to welcome you to Year 1 last week. More information about our Curriculum and our Learning this year will follow at a later date.
• Children will change for their PE sessions so please make sure that children’s PE kits are in school on their pegs. They need a white T-shirt, black shorts and a change of shoes, pumps or trainers. Please make sure everything is named.
• Your child will be bringing home their reading books this week, both decodable and a book to share for pleasure with a grown up. These will be changed each week. Your child will be assessed on their phonics this week, informally to help aid our planning. Please be patient whilst we carry out these assessments and decide whether your child needs to move to a different reading level.

We will always aim to get outside, whatever the weather, as much as possible so children will really need a waterproof coat each day and whilst the weather is still hot a sun hat.

• You will find below a grid showing the sessions to be taught this week. They do not exactly follow days as each class has different sessions due to support and PE times being different but it allows you to see the week as a snapshot of sessions..  
• Days for PE:
  Bluebell Class – Tuesday and Wednesday
  Cherry Class – Wednesday and Thursday

If you need to contact your class teachers by email then please use the following:
bluebell@henleaze-inf.bristol.sch.uk
cherry@henleaze-inf.bristol.sch.uk

Daily Well Being Activities

Monday – Connect Who will you be a good friend to today?
Tuesday – Take Notice Sit really quietly – what can you hear?
Wednesday – Be Active If you’re Happy and you know it KS1 Wake up, wake up song
Thursday – Keep Learning What are you going to challenge yourself to do in this new school year?
Friday – Give – Share ideas for how to help someone who is feeling sad or unsure.

English

Phonics –
Revisit Phase 3 (Revision of last year). Assessment of children’s retention of phonics taught last year.
Official Phonics Programme will start next week.

Writing –
Writing a simple dictated sentence.
Write about something special from the holidays. Share verbally first.
Handwriting – Looking at ascenders and descenders of lowercase letters of the alphabet and making labels

Reading –
Read individually and receive reading books, bookmarks and log books to take home.

Maths   

Writing our numerals and ordering numbers to 20.
Correctly form digits.
Various maths games and activities inside and outside. 

Wider Curriculum

PE- SHINE Outside Session – Team Games

PSHE – New Beginnings
Introduce Year 1 Routines
Introduction to outside provision and expectations.
Establish class rules and create an agreed charter together.
Circle Time – Spider – Work as a class to create connections between Reception and Year 1.

Exploring the ELLI animals

Art – Creative Unicorn – Use a variety of media to create a picture of their own choosing.

         Chameleon – Exploration of colour mixing

DT – Busy Bees -Work in teams of three to create a model of a bee.

Curious Cats – Explore the inside and outside environments to access resources independently.

Starting next  week we will also post the stars of the week for each class here.