Year 1 Blog - Puffin Class

Hello,

2 things I wanted to alert you to this week:

*There is a payment available on arbor for the Partake drama workshop - this is an excellent opportunity for your child to join in with some really fun and engaging history, to dress up and find out about life in London a long time ago. So much so that I think they will think they are in 1666 when the Great Fire happened!

* Look out for the form that will be sent tomorrow about our science tasting next week. I would like to check everyone is happy with the foods the children are trying so I ask you please to complete this. As best as possible, I have tried to find examples of food tastes in their 'purest' form!

Thanks,

Mrs Jones

Hello and welcome to your weekly homework blog.

Please use your homework folder to access logins and passswords for spelling shed and doodle.

*Week 2 of spellings. The sounds /l/, /k/ and /z/ spelt like ll, ck and zz. The words this week are: well, pull, full, wall, buzz, fizz, back, stick, flick, pal. Please use the sheet in your homework folder to complete this activity. The new words will be available on Spelling Shed from tomorrow to play some games with.

*Please complete your weekly 'special homework' activity from your homework folder.

*Please read regularly with your child and ensure your child reads to you - this really makes a huge difference. Re-reading is super important as well, which is why we only swap books twice a week. If you have the phonic cards at home, we also suggest you could use 8-10 of these to help your child get to know these really well. Mondays and Thursdays are book swap day and in between we hope children are re-reading those books to help them quickly learn the graphemes that are coming up. 

*Try to complete '5 a day' on doodle and stay in the green zone. Well done Puffins, for a brilliant start with doodle. We are super proud of you!

Mrs Jones

Hello and welcome to your first homework and spellings blog!

We had a wonderful first week back and Mrs Morgan and I enjoyed getting to know the children. They are brilliant at keeping tidy and know where their belongings are kept already. Our new cloakrooms have really helped to facilitate a tidy start! Morning activities at tables have been fantastic and the children are already keen to do their best - well done Puffins! Such great Year 1 attitudes.

At the beginning of each week you will receive a weekly blog outlining the spellings for each week and messages about other things happening in school. Children in Year 1 will have weekly homework and spellings to work on. We will hand out homework folders on Tuesday evening at the 'Base One Welcome Meeting' at 4:45pm. We have organised all of the work for the half-term, but it is not expected to be completed in one go.  We will explain the spellings you will work on each week and those words will correlate to a worksheet within your homework folder.

All of your doodle and Spelling Shed passwords can be found inside this homework folder so please keep it safe!

This week is our first week of teaching spellings.

On Monday we will explicitly teach our spelling rule. Each day for the rest of the week we will continue to work on these so that children can read and spell these words. You will spot that these words mostly link to phonics rules but sometimes are words children just need to learn (like 'the' or 'I').

Our words this week are words with /f/ and /s/ spelt with /ff/ and /ss/: 

off, puff, sniff, miss, hiss, less, if, us, bus, yes.

You will be able to complete the related activity when you have your homework folder.

Mrs Morgan gave out new books last week and there will be new books again tomorrow. We swap books on Mondays and Thursdays but encourage you to return to books several times so that your child is really secure in their reading.

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday at 4:45pm.

Mrs Jones

Hello,

We are looking forward to welcoming your children into Year 1. We enjoyed spending time with them in July and are excited to work with both you and them.

Please find below some important curriculum information for the first half-term. This includes:

*Knowledge organiser for science (Wonderful Me)

*Curriculum map (outlining all of our learning for the first half term)

*Spelling words overview

*Topic homework (to be completed at some point this half term)

*Maths KIRFs - Key facts we will be focusing on in maths this term and good things to reinforce at home.

From Year 1, children are given passwords for doodle maths assignments and for spelling shed. We will give those to you in the first week. You will find daily / weekly activities on there to help support learning in school. We also have homework folders for the children which includes a spelling activity for each week and on the back, a short 'special' homework activity. 

We also have a lovely morning planned with Partake Theatre Company in October. There will be more details and a payment available for you in September for this.

We look forward to seeing you at the Base One meeting in September.

Best wishes for a happy (and sunny!) summer.

Mrs Jones & Mrs Morgan

Hello,

The children might have told you about our collecting beans in a jar for a class treat day. With the children's excellent behaviour this week, we collected the final few beans and filled the jar!  To help the children understand how voting works, we gave all children in the class a cube and a choice of three great days they might like.  The day with the most votes was camp/explorer day. Your child can come to school in non-school uniform next Monday (15th July) - we plan to be outside for most of the day, so please make sure that they are dressed in clothes for outdoor play.

In our school summer production of 'The Greatest Show', Reception are going to be part of the travelling fair.  Please could the children bring in some brightly coloured clothes to join in with this by Monday 15th July. Please ensure clothes (shorts, t-shirt, leotard) come into school in a bag labelled clearly with their name. If they'd like to accessorise with a tutu, headband, wristbands, leg warmers, that would be great but not necessary. We hope this will be easy to gather and will not require you to spend extra money.

As with the Christmas concert, Reception will go on stage at the beginning of the show. For the evening performances, once they have finished, there will be a short interlude to the concert where children will either sit with their parents at the concert or be collected from the Lime Trees (out of school club) door by their parents.  If your child is attending the performances, and you are not watching, it is important that a parent is able to collect their child as promptly as possible so that staff can get back into the concert to supervise other classes. 

As always, don't hesitate to talk to us if you have any concerns.

Thank you for your support.

The Reception Team

What a sporty week we have had!