Welcome back  Year One, we have started our new topic toys!

Some dates for your diaries for this new term-

Thursday 2nd March- World book day. All children are invited to dress up as a character from a book of their choice.

Tuesday 7th March- we would love for all of Year One to bring in a toy from home to share with the class. Please be sensible with toy choices- nothing very special or breakable or electronic- thank you.

Half Term has come around and we wish you a restful and peace filled time. We have sent your children home with some Year One words to learn by heart. Please help your children read and write these by heart. Making a set  of flashcards might be a nice Home Learning activity over the break. We have also sent home a new Home Learning pyramid has also been stuck into your child’s Home Learning Adventure Book.

WE look forward to seeing you on Monday 27th

From The Year One Team

Wow. Year One you have blown us away. The Liturgy this morning was absolutely fantastic. You behaved impeccably, the acting was superb and the reading was marvellous.

Thank you to Father Vitalis for leading us in our worship.

Thank you to all who made it to worship with us this morning, here are some pictures if you were unable to attend.

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!

Jesus was born in a stable.

I’m pretty sure that none of you were!
Over the holidays, can you collect a picture or some information about your birth story.
You could tell us where the hospital was or if you were born at home. You may tell us your size or show us a photo of your first outfit.
This information will help us in out RE learning after Christmas.

Thank you

We take great pleasure in wishing you are very merry Christmas! Thank you for all your cards and gifts. I’m sure you will enjoy the festivities of Christmas and if you are stuck for some ideas of activities, please see the suggestions below.
We look forward to seeing you in 2017,
The Year One team!