Welcome to the final half term in year one!

Children have come back to school and straight into super phonics sessions to prepare them for phonics screening that took place this week. All children tried really hard and their efforts showed.

The children have started a new a English learning journey this week – Poles Apart. In this book the penguins go on an adventure all over the world. We made a story map and re-enacted the story as we told it.

For maths week we have been looking at numbers to 100. We have focused on finding one more and one less than numbers up to 100. Children played lots of games such as greatest to smallest, find the missing number, ordering etc.

We also started learning about The Great Fire of London. The children came up with lots of questions they want to find the answer to, so this is how we kicked off our first session. The children were detectives, looking for the answers to the questions: When, Where and How.

Next week 

Maths – We will continue learning about one more and one less than numbers up to 100.

English – We will be looking at the different counties and coming with adjectives to help describe what they look like.

How can I help my child at home?

For phonics, please ensure that your child is secure in their phase 5 sounds. This will put them in the best position to access learning at the start of Year 2. 

For maths please make sure children  can recognise numbers to 100 and understand the pattern of number such as 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 etc. 

When practising writing at home please encourage your children to write from left to right, on the line, once they have eco e to the end of the line they move on to the next one. All letters should be formed correctly and facing the right way, if your child is still struggling with this then please make handwriting practise a priority.