Year 1

With Class Teacher - Miss.Erroi

Learning Support Assistant - Miss.Roberts

Class Pet Friend - Doogie

...will be chosen on a Friday to take home our class friend Doogie for the weekend. Please encourage your child to write all about their weekend adventure with Doogie and display photographs in the book provided. On a Monday morning, your child will sit on the 'share chair' to tell us all about their weekend adventures.

Doogie hopes to visit your family one week soon! J

•  Jumper/cardigans and coats are clearly labelled

• Named water bottles (containing water only)
• Reading books and reading diaries
• P.E Kit (to be left in school every week and will be returned to be washed at the end of term)

English and Maths homework books are given out on a Friday and need to be returned on the following Thursday. Please ensure that only the dated pages are completed .

An optional home learning project is also available for the children to complete. Please find these below. 

Reading with your child 3 times a week or more and recording in their reading record will earn your child a sticker on the reading chart! This will also encourage confidence, expression and fluency.

We are continuing to prepare your child for their May 2020 Year 1 National Phonics Screening test. To give your child the best possible chance of success, please encourage and support your child to practise their phonics sound flash cards at home daily. Before the Easter holidays, I will also be sending home some 'Alien words' for your child to practise reading, as these will be similar to the ones in their test.

This half terms Virtue’s and Values are: Faith-filled and Hopeful.

We are growing to be Faith-filled by believing in ourselves and in others, and Hopeful that we can continue to build strong relationships with others, and put our trust in God.

On Wednesday 26th February, we will enter into a new liturgical season of lent. During this time, we will repent our sins, fast, pray and prepare for the coming of Easter.

We will be reflecting on the right or wrong choices that we have made and think about the relationship we have with God through class prayer sessions. Together, we’ll gather ideas about the types of things we have given up, and what we will do for others during this special time.

Stomp, crash and roar! Watch out – there are dinosaurs about! Yes, that’s right, our brand new 'Dinosaur Planet' topic will be allowing us to travel back in time to the age of the dinosaurs.

We’ll look closely at ancient fossils and study reptiles to understand how dinosaurs may have lived and eventually died out. We’ll learn about the great fossil hunter, Mary Anning, and follow in her footsteps, studying dinosaur teeth and bones to find out what dinosaurs liked to eat. Learning dinosaur names, creating puzzling riddles, writing fantastic fact files and creating exciting dinosaur stories are some of the other activities we’ll be involved in during Spring 2. We’ll use our artistic skills to make model dinosaurs and to design dinosaur landscapes.

Happy New Year and welcome back after what I hope was a fantastically festive Christmas holiday!

Year 1 are now tiptoeing into our new topic ‘The Enchanted Woodland’.

If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a BIG surprise!  Foxes and badges, voles and mice, beady-eyed owls in the swaying tree tops. Beneath the leaves are tiny footprints…animal or imp? You decide!                                                                                       What can you find?

Can you match a leaf to its tree?

Can you match a petal to its flower?

Let’s build a den, stick by stick and branch by branch. Or we could make a teeny tiny home for a woodland fairy! Then let’s party down in the woods with Mr.Fox and all his friends. We’d better not get lost…let’s leave a trail of conkers as we go!

At last, it’s time to rest by the woodland fire, listening to stories and toasting our sweet, gooey marshmallows. Yum, yum!

This half terms Virtue’s and Values are: Compassionate and Loving.

We are growing to be Compassionate towards others, near and far, especially to others less fortunate than ourselves; and loving by our actions and forgiving words.

This term will begin with the unit of Christmas, and develop the children’s knowledge and understanding of Christmas as a celebration of the birth of Jesus. The children will develop an understanding of the importance of the birth of Jesus through the events that happened before and after, and the impact it had on the people involved.

We will then enter back into the liturgical season of Ordinary time, and move onto develop the children’s knowledge and understanding of what it means to belong to, and celebrate as a family. The Families and Celebrations’ unit will focus on the Mass, the stories of the Presentation and Finding of Jesus in the Temple and the Wedding Feast at Cana as important celebrations in the life of the Church and Jesus.

In science we will be learning about plants and understanding that plants are a living organism through photosynthesis. We will study the different parts of a plant and identify a wide variety of plants including flowers, trees and vegetables. 

Please continue to ensure that every item of your child’s school uniform is clearly labelled, especially jumpers/cardigans.

Water bottles need to also be labelled and bought into school every day.

Reading books: Please ensure your child brings their reading book and reading record into school every day. Home reading will contribute and support your child with their ability to read and evidence of reading 3 times a week or more in your child’s reading diary will earn your child a sticker on our reading chart! 

Homework: Your child’s English homework book and Maths homework books are given out on a Friday and need to be returned on the following Thursday. Please ensure your child only completes the pages that are dated in red pen. 

Spellings: are given out in yellow books on a Monday and need to be returned the following Monday.

As you were informed before the Christmas holiday's, Year 1’s National Phonics screening test will be taking place in May 2020, so please practise the phonics flashcards I sent home last term daily. This will provide your child with the best possible chance of identifying each sound confidentially.

I will soon be sending home a pack of ‘alien’ word cards for your children to practise reading in preparation for their test.

Kind regards

Miss. Erroi :)  

A very warm and autumnal welcome back to our second term in Year 1! After a busy 8 weeks in training, we left for the October half term as ‘Superheroes’. We now rocket our way into our brand new topic, ‘Moon Zoom’.

We’ll travel through space to learn about the Solar System. We’ll investigate an alien crash site, write an incident report and try to find the aliens who have landed. Where could they be? We’ll make models of the Solar System and design spaceships. Books and photographs will help us to learn about the first lunar landing and the astronauts who venture into space.  We will compose space sounds and dances, and we’ll also explore satellite images, investigate rockets and use ICT to communicate our ideas and present our work. It will be out of this world!

Are you ready for blast off?

The Values and Virtues for this half term are Attentive and Discerning.

 We are growing to be Attentive to our experiences, and Discerning about the choices we make and the effects that those choices have on others.  

We will begin this term with ‘Prayer’, a unit designed to develop the children’s understanding of prayer as a special way of spending time with God. The children will be exploring the Vocabulary, actions, places and aids associated with prayer, with particular reference to the prayer of praise and intercession. The children will also explore how Christians give praise to God in the psalms and in prayers like the “Glory Be To The Father” and the “Our Father”.

On 1^st December, we will enter into the liturgical season of Advent, a time when children will develop an understanding of waiting and preparing for the celebration of the birth of Jesus and his coming again. The  children will learn and understanding that Advent is a joyful liturgical season and  will allow them to participate in a special liturgy.

Our Science topics this term will include ‘The Solar System’ and properties of everyday materials. We will be learning about the planets and comparing them using positioning words such as ‘closest’, ‘nearest’, ‘far from’, ‘smallest’ and ‘largest’.

Please continue to ensure that every item of your child’s school uniform is clearly labelled, especially jumpers/cardigans.

Water bottles need to also be labelled and bought into school every day.

Reading books: Please ensure your child brings their reading book and reading record into school every day. Home reading will contribute and support your child with their ability to read and evidence of reading 3 times a week or more in your child’s reading diary will earn your child a sticker on our reading chart! J

Homework: Your child’s English homework book and Maths homework books are given out on a Friday and need to be returned on the following Thursday. Please ensure your child only completes the pages that are dated in red pen.

Spellings: are given out in yellow books on a Monday and need to be returned the following Monday.

CRASH, BANG, BOOM, SPLAT,

Miss.Erroi would like to WELCOME YOU BACK!

I hope that you have all had a fun and fantastic summer holiday!

Year 1 have lots of exciting challenges ahead of them as Superheroes in training!

It's time to rescue the planet from evil villains!

The heroes we admire the most may be ordinary people who have achieved great things, or may be people who save lives in our emergency services.

Superheroes have super senses. We will be using ours to identify mystery items with our smell, taste, sound and touch.

KAPOW! 

The Virtues and Values for this half term are Grateful and Generous.

We are growing to be grateful for our own gifts, for the gift of other people, and for the blessings of each day; and generous with our kindness to others.

There are lots of fun writing activities that Year 1 will be completing in English. Children will have to work hard to hold their pencil using a fine pincer grip and carefully form their upper and lower case letters correctly. We will also be learning to apply the correct types of punctuation in all of our writing.

The Human Body is our Science focus for this term. We will look closely at the strength and muscular power a Superhero needs in order to be and stay fit, strong and healthy. We will focus on healthy eating as well as learn about our five senses: taste, smell, hearing, touch, sight.

Our class saint is St.Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland.

In R.E this term, we are learning about ‘Creation’. This unit will develop the children’s appreciation of themselves and the world around them as part of God’s Creation. The children will be sequencing the story of Creation and reflecting on the need to thank and praise God for his many gifts.

READING

Your child’s reading book will be sent home daily and needs to please be returned every day in order for us to hear your child read in school. Reading books will be changed once a week on a Tuesday (more times if we feel necessary). 

As much home reading as possible will make such a difference to your child’s reading. Even just listening to your child read one or two pages a day, will support their ability to read and develop significantly. Please write a comment in their reading diary each time you hear them read. We will reward your child with a sticker on our chart if we see evidence of them reading three times a week or more. 

HOMEWORK

Homework will be handed out every Friday and collected back in on the following Thursday. Please ensure only one page is completed per week in each book.

WATER BOTTLES

It is very important for your child to have access to their water bottle in school every day.

CLOTHING

Please can you ensure that every item of your child’s school uniform including bag, coat and water bottle are clearly labelled. This will help massively if any item were ever to get lost.

Without further or do, Year 1 wish you, a ‘Hulk SMASHING’ day!