Weekly Blog

02.10.23

Reading at home: Please record reading at home in the reading record book. The children are working towards earning clothes for their reading teds. We would like the children to read at home every day.

Please can you ensure your child has a pair of wellies at school.

Literacy: This week we will be continuing to construct sentences using colourful semantics. This week the children will be writing sentences using 'who', 'doing', 'what' and 'where' vocabulary e.g. The girl is throwing the leaves in the woods.

Maths: We will be focusing on addition, we will be using the part whole model and writing addition number sentences.

Reading: Our reading this week focuses on the Percy the Park Keeper Story 'After The Storm'. We will be using rex the retriever to help us retrieve information from the text.

Topic: Our curriculum focus this week will be a DT focus. We will be using our knowledge of plants to create a mechanical slider picture.

Phonics: We will be consolidating sounds we have already learnt and developing our decoding and blending skills. Please see below for more information.

25.09.23

Reading at home: Please record reading at home in the reading record book. The children are working towards earning clothes for their reading teds. We would like the children to read at home every day.

Please can you ensure your child has a pair of wellies at school.

Literacy: This week we will be introducing the children to colourful semantics and will be using it to form sentences.

Maths: We will be learning how to use a number line and focusing on greater than, less than and equal to using the symbols <, > and =.

Reading: Our reading this week focuses on the Percy the Park Keeper Story 'Fox's Socks'. We will be using rex the retriever to help us retrieve information from the text.

Topic: Our curriculum focus this week will be a science focus. We will be learning about the parts of a plant and what their purpose is. Our key vocabulary this week is stem, leaf, petal, flower, seed and root.

Phonics: We will be consolidating sounds we have already learnt and developing our decoding and blending skills. Please see below for more information.

14.09.23

Tapestry: In Year One tapestry is used to show evidence that your child has achieved a national curriculum objective. You will still have access to tapestry from Reception and will be able to see photographs of the children's learning. The majority of our evidence is collected in books which you will be able to see throughout the year.

Please can you ensure your child has a pair of wellies at school.

Literacy: This week we will be focusing on the story 'Hansel and Gretel' in drawing club. We will be drawing a character, focusing on setting and heading on a new adventure.

Maths: We will be looking at identifying one more and one less than a given number. We will be using the vocabulary more, fewer and less.

Reading: Our reading this week focuses on the text 'Hansel and Gretel'. We will be using rex the retriever to help us retrieve information from the text.

Topic: Our curriculum focus this week will be an art focus. We will be exploring colour, texture and shape. The children will also be exploring colour mixing.

This week in geography we will also focus on extreme weather conditions that are experienced across the world such as hurricanes, flooding and monsoons.

08.09.23

Welcome to Year One

We have had a lovely first week together, we have spent time getting to know the children and learning our new routine. The children have all settled in so well and we are very proud of them.

Please ensure your child has a pair of wellies at school. Our PE days are Wednesday and Friday.  We have music with Mrs Jones on a Monday.

Any questions please feel free to ask your child's teacher.

Literacy: This week we will be inviting the children to come to drawing club where we will be drawing and writing about the story 'Where the wild things are'.

Maths: We will be focusing on counting and number recognition this week. The children will be counting different amounts and identify numbers as numerals and words.

Topic: Our topic this half term is 'Woods'. This week we will have a science focus where we will be exploring the season autumn. We will be thinking about the weather associated with autumn and how some trees change during this time.

Reading: Our text this week is 'Say Hi to the Hedgehogs'. We will be practising our retrieval skills whilst learning some facts from this non-fiction text.