On Monday and Friday this week the children spent time in their new Year 2 classes. We have heard that they have had lots of fun being Year 2 pupils of St Peter’s school!

This week the children have had a Diwali workshop. They practised some Indian dancing! They had great fun.

The children also used iPads to edit images of the great fire of London for computing this week.

For maths children have been exploring missing number problems and using numicon to help them solve the answer!

This week the children took part in a history deep learning day. They had to order the events of The Great Fire of London in chronological order and then explored why the fire spread so quickly. They then recreated Pudding Lane, building houses from boxes and adding straw for thatched roofs.

The children had a visit from Hampshire fire and rescue service to teach them safety rules when it comes to fire! They learnt a rhyme: Matches and lighters, never touch, they can hurt you very much!

They even had a go at some role play too!

In maths the children have been looking at number bonds and number sentences.

For English this week we have been learning about the suffixes, -ed, -er, -est. The children have been learning how to use them and have begun to have a go at using it in context of our new book ‘The Queens Hat.‘

Thank you for coming to watch your child partake in sports day. Here are some photos of the day.

The children have been busy exploring numbers to 100 this week. They have been exploring how many 10s and how many 1s in each number. They are developing confidence in using dienes.

We have also been matching numerals and number names together up to 20 and then 30 and a real challenge to 100.

The children have been exploring settings in our text driver, Poles Apart. They have had to match adjectives to the settings and have started to think of their own in order to write a setting description for the author Jeanne Willis.

We explored our school environment this week, looking for all the beautiful plants and flowers for science. The children then did observational drawings of what they could see.

IMPORTANT NOTICES 

KS1 Sports day morning on Monday 20th. All children must come into school wearing suncream, a sun hat and their house colour t-shirt.
All children must have a water bottle.

Carnival of the counties on Friday 24th June. Again please make sure the children come to school with sun cream and a water bottle.

Next week :

English – we are writing a setting description for one of countries the Pilchard-Browns visit.

Maths – We are continuing to look at how to make numbers to 100.

How can I help my child at home?

Practise counting and recognising numbers to 100. Talk about how 34 is made of 3 tens and 4 ones. Can your children tell you how many tens and ones in numbers up to 99?

Continue to listen to your child read. It must be a minimum of 3 times a week and a comment and signature must be in their orange Phonics book Or they will be staying in to read for 5 minutes of their break time. 

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.

We joined Year R and had a whole blue phase jubilee party. We enjoyed our fruit and vegetables skewers, had squash and the staff in the kitchen made us some yummy biscuits!

The children have been busy the last week of summer term 1. They have been learning about 3D shapes and sorting them according to their properties.

The children wrote about their day at Arundel castle too! They included verbs and adjectives to describe what happened.

Finally we made fruit and vegetable skewers for DT and then we enjoyed them at our Jubilee party we had with Year R!

We hope you have a lovely half term break! The first week back the children will have phonics screening, so any practise of phonics over the half term will be much appreciated.

Here are some images from the school trip. The children had great fun going on a double decker bus for the first time! When we got to the castle the children had snack and then they explored the castle rooms! They had the opportunity to dress up, walk round the beautiful gardens and experience the dungeon. They had such fun and were so exhausted by the end of the day we had some children catch some zzzzzzzs on the coach back to school!

Here are some images from our liturgy last week.

We had fun finding out about our country focus for the summer term. We emptied a back pack and using the objects inside to try to guess where this person was going. By the end of the session most of the children had guessed that it was Antarctica!

The children have been learning how to count in 5s this week. They have been using their new skill to help them answer worded problems.

Next week:

English – The children will be learning about words in their contracted forms, such as is not – isn’t, we are – we’re.

Maths – We will be counting in 2, 5 and 10 to help us solve problems and using the vocabulary ‘groups of’.

How can I help my child at home?

We are doing a big push on phonics at the moment in school, it would be great if you could encourage your child do some phonics at home too. We have found that the alien (nonsense) words seem to be a bit tricky for the children blend as they want to make them into real words. Attached is some you could  get your child to read at home. 

Alien-Nonsense-Word-Cards

The children have had a busy first week back and many have worked extremely hard.

For English the children have been exploring how to look after dragon eggs! They ended the week by looking at instructions and making a jam sandwhich following the instructions In preparation for Writing instruction on how to train a dragon.

The children came into school to find dragon footprints and used counting in 2s to work out how many footprints had been left!

The children ended the week by counting in 10s because they found out that dragons fly in groups of 10!

Next week 

English – The children will be writing instructions to help care for a dragon!

Maths – We will be counting in 5s to work out dragon problems.

Key date: Liturgy 10am on Tuesday 3rd May

How can I help my child at home?

As we will be counting in 5s next week, you could help your child by arranging their toys (cars, bears, lol dolls, etc) in groups of 5 and counting how many are in two groups of 5 or 3 groups of 5.

We have been looking at instructions, so share a set of instructions with your child and ask how they know which order to do things. Use time connectives such as: First, next, then , finally.

Presentation and letter formation is important in year 1, particularly this final term, so please practise letter formation at home. Ensuring that letters are facing the correct way and sitting on the line.