Welcome to Year 1!

Each week we'll be keeping you up to date with our weekly blog. In addition to this, please read our half-termly curriculum map to find out what will be happening in Year 1. 

Important information

PE - Tuesday and Thursday. Please come to school in your PE kit on these days and these days only. 

Books - Change books Friday. Your child will come home with 1 new Library  book and a Phonics book every Friday. An Ebook will also be assigned each Friday, a login for this can be found in your child's reading record.   Please make sure you have been reading at home at least three times a week. Please record any reading you have done in your reading diary. Your reading diary must always be in your bookbag so that we can read with you in school. 

Spellings - New spellings will be sent home every Friday. Please make sure your child's spelling book is in their bookbag on Friday so that the new ones can be stuck in. Please use your spelling book to practice them. If there is evidence of practising, your child will receive a green point. Please also check which spellings have been marked as incorrect as these will still need to be practised.

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Autumn 1

Week 1

What a fantastic week we have had settling into our new classroom.

We started getting into our new classroom routine and exploring the area. We started by exploring our new provision areas. We especially loved being in the role-play area as doctors- linking to our science topic of the human body.We started to look at our new writing book, focusing on the book- The funny bones. We met our new phonics teachers and started settling into the new phonics groups. We even experienced a fun singing assembly – learning lots of exiting songs ready for the Harvest festival.

Thank you all for a fantastic first week! You were all so brave and confident.

Week 2

What a brilliant second week we have had. We have continued to settle into our new routine and started to enjoy our new learning.

In maths this week we have started to focus on numbers to 10 – learning new and exciting counting songs. We explored the concept of 1 more and 1 less.

In writing this week we have been extremely busy practising writing who/what/where sentences also practising our finger spaces and capital letters for sentence starters.

In Science, we traced around one of our friends – labeling their body. We also explored being doctors in the role-play area.

In art this week we explored mark making to different music – we discovered how different music made our lines drastically opposite.

The Spellings this week are:

• puff
• fluff
• doll
• kiss
• fizz
• back
• and
• the
• were
• to

Week 3

What a fantastic week we have had.

In writing this week we found exploring the book The Funny Bones, retelling an aspect of the story ensuring to use capital letters and full stops.

In Maths, we continue to explore numbers to ten. We practised using zero and ordering small groups of numbers, starting with the smallest and ending with the greatest.

In History we asked of how do I explore my history? We explored the importance of asking questions and looking back at photographs.

In PE we practised the skill of rolling a ball, working in pairs to roll to one another, playing lots of fun games involving rolling too.

The spellings this week are:

• bank
• pink
• think
• skin
• kick
• basket
• are
• were
• his
• you

 

 

fetch

witch

match

kitchen

switch

batch

his

has

you

your