This week we have been learning the days of the week and the months of the year- ask your  children to sing the songs they have been learning to you!

Next week we will be learning to tell the time. In Year One we focus on telling the time to the hour and half past the hour. Over the weekend- lots of questions asking your child the time will be very helpful!

In literacy we have been writing information texts- we have focused on different types of houses. We have been labelling houses with different features.

In RE we have been learning the story of the Good Samaritan- acting it out and discussing what the story tells us.

Remember: Year One Liturgy 10:15 Tuesday 7th February

Tuesday 7th February Year one will be leading a liturgy in which all parents are welcome to attend.

We will begin our worship at 10:15, we hope to see you there! If you can not attend, look out on the blog for pictures.

Thursday 16th February there will be a phonics workshop. Starting at 2:15 Mrs Knight will lead a talk with information about phonics in Year One, the phases of phonics and provide useful websites and resources. Then you will have the opportunity to observe a phonics lesson within class.

Not all reading in Year One is from a book- we LOVE playing various word matching games and pictures.

We use our sounds to make different words.

We also love making silly sentences with our foam words.

Singing/ reciting counting in 2s.

Filling in the missing numbers

Use physical objects to count in 2s- it is very important for children to understand the quantity of 2.

Give children a real life context for counting in 2s. For example counting in 2p coins to purchase something.

Some children will be able to do this with resources, however within the classroom setting the children will be expected to count up to 100 using a range of resources, numicon, deans, beadstring, on a numberline etc.

Wow, what a fun filled few days back. Everyone seems well rested and ready to get straight back in to learning!

We have started a new topic- A tale to tell

All based on fairy tales!

A new homework pyramid has been stuck into the children’s homelearning books.

We have started looking at the story of the 3 little pigs- subtracting building materials in Maths to retelling the story in English.

Next week we will be moving on to counting in 2s in Maths and looking at the characters specifically in English.

We have assessed the children in phonics this week and have found out what the gaps are in their phonological knowledge that need plugging.Over the next term we will be using this understanding to revisit sounds from across all the phases.

Please support your child with practicing reading, saying and finding examples of each sound as well as making up ‘alien’ words using the sound.

Thank you for bringing in all of the children’s baby photos/ books etc- it has been a great learning opportunity for the children to relate their own birth to the birth of Jesus.

We are looking forward to the next weeks learning!

During numeracy this week, we will be focusing on number bonds to 10, for example

7 and 3

6 and 4

It is very important for children to be secure in their number bonds to ten, it is the foundation for fantastic counting with harder numbers further through the school.

In literacy we will be adapting and creating our own version of the Hare and the Tortoise. For example Miss Shaw’s story is the cat and the mouse- the mouse beats the cat because the cat is too busy eating fish from the pond to notice!

We have really enjoyed the children’s maps they have created for homelearning too- so keep up the good work!

On Tuesday some of our Year Ones had the opportunity to take part in a football tournament at Southdowns college. They thoroughly enjoyed themselves, participating in various skills based games set up by the students at Southdowns. They will now be able to pass on their new skills to their peers.

Well done!

This week, Year One had the privilege of helping open the secret garden. Mrs Daily and Mr Cunningham helped to cut the ribbon. We then had a fantastic maths lesson in our new learning space.

Thank you to everyone who celebrated the story of creation in our Liturgy on Tuesday. All the children enjoyed participating in creating the world through the words of the bible.

We are so impressed Turtles and Pufferfish, another week in and you have settled in so well, into Year One.

Your work has looked fantastic this week and your first books in school are starting to fill up! As you can imagine linking all of our learning this week to DINOSAURS has made learning very fun.

In maths we have been learning to count dinosaurs accurately, we have also been exploring our maths toolkits to see how many different ways we can make a number.

In literacy we have been reading Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs, we have been writing descriptive sentences to describe what the dinosaurs look like to the lost and found man.

Our sounds in phonics this week have been EAR, AIR, URE, NG, OR.

Remember- this Tuesday, 27th September at 10:20 Year 1 will be leading a Liturgy in the school hall. We would love as many of you as possible to attend and join us in worship. If you are unable to attend, please look at the blog Tuesday evening for photos.

 We have been making fantastic use of our new and improved Mary garden. It has been a lovely place to learn one more and one less of a number.

We have been showing one more/one less than a number in a variety of ways as you can see in the pictures below.

In literacy this week we have created our own fact books about puffer fish and turtles, writing sentences focusing on finger spaces, capital letters and full stops.