Year 1

The magical 'Yet'!

We have been learning about the story ' The Magical Yet'. We have been working really hard on our resilience and positive language. If you would like to share any celebrations linking to resilience, please send in a 'Magical yet' voucher alongside a picture to add to our gallery. If you would like to `send the picture to school, we are happy to print it off for you.

Summer

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Year One!

This term we are learning about explorers! We are investigating how the role of the explorer has changed over time, whilst learning about key explorers from history, such as Christopher Columbus and Matthew Henson. We love looking in atlas' so we think this topic is perfect!

We are also learning about plants this term in science and have been busy exploring the school grounds to identify different plants and flowers. We love asking questions about the world around us! Therefore, we have been using question spinner to help us create our own enquiries and inspire our own investigations. Check out the pictures of us below!

In art, we have just started our sculpture unit. We have been looking at a range of different sculptures and artists and have started our own journey to create a sculpture through learning different styles and methods! Take a look at our sculptures below and let us know what you think!

As we are in the final stretch towards the end of Year One, we are going full speed ahead with all things Phonics! You would not believe the sounds we can incorporate into our reading and writing! We are also a tiny bit obsessed with suffix's, root words and prefix's at the moment and love the challenge of considering these when were writing.

We are very grateful for all of the support and help you have been giving your child. It is so lovely to see how enthusiastic and proud of their learning your children are and we can't wait to keep sharing our learning with you!

Thank you for your ongoing support,

Miss Wilby and the Year 1 Team

Year 1 Science

year 1 art

Reading books

Children will be able to change reading books every Friday. Please use the reading bookmarks (linking to your child's phonics group) to support your child and their comprehension of the text that they are reading. Each week your child will come home with:-

A Book bag book - which links to their phonics grouping and is set for your child to develop their decoding and comprehension skills.
An Early reader book - A book to enjoy together
An online Phonics book - The book your child has been reading in school that past week so that they can practice their storyteller voices and to continue to revisit red words.
A library book - A book to enjoy together

Please can you record all your child’s reading at home in their Reading diary, including the name of the book and the pages read. This is really important and allows us to get the full picture of your child's immersion to books and helps us to understand and support your child's reading progress effectively.

PE

Children will have PE lessons every Tuesdays and Friday. Please ensure that children come into school in their full PE kit ready for their PE lesson that day.

Phonics

In addition to our Read Write Inc Speed Sounds lessons, we also teach the using the Story Books. Please see the videos below for elements of the lessons.

RWI phonics sounds How to use pure sounds to help your child with their reading and writing.