Year 1 Blog - Puffin Class

What fun we had this morning meeting Pudsey today! He was very silly and we all enjoyed a good giggle. Here are some photos from when he came to meet us.

Hello,

I hope it has been a lovely half-term break and that you've had some nice time spent together. We are very much looking forward to seeing the children and hearing about their adventures on Monday.

Please see the key information blog posted before the holidays to recap the learning and curriculum for this half-term. It should be easy to find should you need to refer to it during the half-term, too.

Before the holidays, we sent home lots of books to keep your child busy - please send those back in on Monday so that we can re-stock our shelves and, as usual, you'll have new books then. The children are excellent at bringing those in and popping those in the return box, and we are trying hard to help them develop independence through this. Please ensure you are reading regularly with your child and listening to them read, too, to help them to apply their phonics learning. We know many of you do this daily, which is fantastic, but we do suggest a minimum of 3-5 times a week. We always recommend reading these a few times because that is when children read fluently and automatically. 

As you know, we completed our phonics assessments just before half-term, so your child might be bringing home a new colour book now and might have a new teacher for phonics after the holidays. We also sent phonics videos home which we hope have helped to keep the children going over the break.

*Spelling this week is Autumn 2, Week 1 (/ai/ and /oi/ words - these are rarely sounds used at the end of words):

rain, wait, train, paid, afraid, oil, join, coin, point, soil

Please login to Spelling Shed to play some games and also use the sheet in your homework folders (week 1) for autumn 2 (your new homework pack). You've all been wonderful at working on Spelling Shed and doing the paper homework and I know the children have really enjoyed using this. Keep it up!

*Doodle - The Puffins are in third place, behind Y4 and Y3 on the doodle leader board. Let's work hard as a team to get back to 1st place with our stars! You'll find new assignments as well as a few daily questions on your doodle account, please login and keep working on those key maths skills.

*Your new homework topic linking to The Great Fire of London is in your new homework pack - there is lots of time to complete this, and you do only need to choose one task that really appeals to your child. There was lots of wonderful science homework from our last topic so well done to everyone who completed that.

See you on Monday,

Mrs Jones

Hello,

We are in our final week now of the first half-term and we have had a great time getting to know your children!

*Phonics videos and phonics information has been emailed to each of you.

*Parent's evening (10 minute appointments) next week - we look forward to welcoming you into the class on Tuesday and Thursday.

*Reading: Please ensure you are reading regularly with your child at home to help them to apply their phonics learning. We know many of you do this daily, which is fantastic, but we do suggest a minimum of 3-5 times a week. Books will be swapped on a Monday and a Thursday and we always recommend to re-read these a few times because that is when children read fluently and automatically. Children are in a good routine of bringing those in and taking new books home and will be well stocked for the holidays.

*Spelling this week is Week 6 words:  /v/ spelt /v/ and /ve/ 

van, vet, visit, have, live, give, love, glove, above, nerve  

Please login to Spelling Shed to play some games and also use the sheet attached. You've all been wonderful at working on Spelling Shed and doing the paper homework. Keep it up!

*Doodle - The Puffins have been top of the leader board for a few weeks now but have just moved to 2nd place after The Penguins (Y3) have topped us with stars. Come on, Puffins, let's work really hard to get back to 1st place!

*Thank you for all the wonderful homework that was handed in on Thursday and Friday - wow! You and your children have worked so hard on all the homework and special tasks. What fantastic topic homework, too! This really does make a difference and helps to work on those skills we teach in school! If we have not yet had your homework folder, please bring your folders along to parent's evening. We will not now have time to go through these with a busy week of parent's evenings, but will pass on the new activities for the next half-term. We will mark both when we next collect them.

*Thank you also for the lovely emails we have received following our Great Fire drama session. We are so pleased the children were excited to talk about this at home.

See you on Monday,

Mrs Jones

We had a wonderful morning today re-enacting the events of the Great Fire of London. Steven (or Samuel Pepys as he became, famous diary writer of 1666) told us about life at the time with the plague, with the hobbies that were popular at the time, wh

Following on from Mr Cresswell's launch assembly on Monday, today we had a lesson on Rosa Parks. The children thought very carefully about equality and fairness. We also watched the KS1 BBC bitesize clip about this. You might like to talk to your