Year 1 Homework 22.9.23

Reading Books

All the children now have reading books, I have also sent home a bookmark, these are to there to help support you, by giving examples of questions you can ask while reading.

The colour of the bookmark is not the RWI group your child is in, as all the reading schemes are different. However they link to the books they are reading, for example purple RWI will have blue bookmarks, green will have yellow.

Please read little and often, we want to encourage reading for pleasure, not turn reading into a chore. If you are finding that your child is reluctant to read at home or you have any questions please send me an email and we will come up with ideas to help support you.

From next week all children will be listened to in school by an adult.

Science Homework

My homework this week is to bring in or email me a picture of you when you were a baby please can this be done before Wednesday as it will link to our Science lesson.

Purple Mash

We will be starting our Computing lessons over the next few weeks, as an ongoing challange please can you teach your child how to log on and off Purple Mash, this will save us a lot of time and help us start and complete our lessons. The log on cards are stuck in the front of their yellow reading record books.

Here is some more information about Purple Mash:

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Homework 15.9.23

It has been lovely to see lots of leaves arriving this week, the children have loved sharing their achievements with the class. I will hand some more out in the next few weeks, please email me if you need some more.

We have changed the library books and you should all have a RWI book in your bag. Please practise reading the RWI book and share the library book together.

My homework this week is to write a sentence about your weekend, have a look at the sheet for more information. I would love to see pictures or drawings so we can share with the class next week.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Homework 8.09.23

This weekend I am sending home some Magic Moment leaves. These are providing you with the opportunity to share anything you would like to tell us about something good, polite, helpful or special that your child does out of school. It can be something as simple as folding up their uniform neatly, making their bed, working extra hard on their reading, using manners whilst out and about or achievements in and out of school clubs such as dancing, football etc.

We will share these in class giving your child a lovely opportunity to speak to an audience and be proud of their achievements. The leaves are then displayed on our tree on our classroom wall. Please don’t just fill them all in on day one. They are intended to be used only as and when they really do something special. Please let me know if you need any more.

We can’t wait to celebrate your child’s magic moments!

The children have all picked a book from our class library to take home and share with you this weekend. On Monday they will recieve their RWI reading book and once the children have completed their Star Reader test, they will have a reading book suitable for their reading ability, they can then select their own reading book. Please bear with us, we have had a few technical issues signing the children and myself on to the system, so it may take some time until it is all set up.

The children all have their own homework book. My first homework is for you to decorate it. Mrs Gregan has set the children a RE challenge can you go on a creation walk and discuss all the wonderful things that God has created? You can draw pictures, write about it or take a photo and put it in your homework book to share with the class.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Welcome to Year 1

We hope you have enjoyed your summer holidays. We have been busy changing our classroom and we are excited to welcome you back on Monday. We are looking forward to starting our journey together in Year 1.

Important reminders:

• Our PE days are Mondays and Fridays please come in PE kit on Monday 4th September as we will start our first PE session with Mr Nay.

• Art is on Tuesday, I have your T-shirts from reception.

• A reminder that all uniform should be clearly labelled, as well as your water bottle.

• Our snack tray will be stocked each day with a choice of two fruits or vegetables, however you are most welcome to bring your own healthy snack for our morning breaktimes.

• We kindly ask that you bring in sun cream (labelled) for your child to apply themselves.

  You are all invited to our Induction evening on Wednesday 13th September. This will start at 3:30 and finishing at 5:00. We would love for your child to show you around their new classroom, and for you to become more familiar with our school. You will also be able discover more about the exciting opportunities and topics that they will be learning during their time in Year 1. We will be in the classroom to answer any questions you may have! More information, such as important forms that will need completing will be available soon so please do keep checking the Year 1 page.

  If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me at:
  d.drummond@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

  
  Have a lovely weekend

  Miss Drummond, Mrs Carragher and Mrs Davis

Year 1 Weekly Blog 20.7.23 'How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard'

‘How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard’

A.A. Milne

Gosh I don’t even know where to start, I have loved joining the Our Ladys family this year and you have been so welcoming and supportive.

First of all thank you for the effort you all put in to make that incredible video, I have watched it many times and cried! The lovely words from you all have also made me cry and I am grateful that I have been lucky enough to teach your amazing children this year. I am very proud of them and I love them all. Finally thank you for all the presents I have been spoilt.

This week we have enjoyed making butterflies, watching Year 6s brilliant performance of Charlie and the choclate factory, watching Matilda and so much more.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our awardees, this week the children voted and gave wonderfull reasons why auch as you are kind and compassionate, you play with everyone and you are a good friend.

Henry has loved going home with everyone and is looking foward to meeting the new Year 1s :).

Reading Challenge: So many certficate winners this week, thank you for all the effort you put in at home it really did make a huge different and I am so pleased that I can finally say we ALL passed our phonics screening, this is a huge achievement! Well done :)

Have a lovely summer holiday.

Love from

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 14.7.23 'Stand tall and be proud, be yourself, you are amazing!'

‘Stand tall and be proud, be yourself, you are amazing!’

Anon

As we approach the end of term I want to tell you how proud I am of everyone and to say a big thank you to yourselves and your children, for working so hard together to make such great progress. It has been such an amazing first year at Our Ladys.

Maths: This week we have been writing addition and subtraction equations, using a cherry part-part-whole digram, ensuring that the parts and the whole are in the right place.

Our train day out

On Tuesday we had our train trip, we were so lucky with the weather and enjoyed watching the train arrive at St Annes station. We had a ride on the minature railway, followed by an ice cream and a play in the park, what a treat! We then wrote a recount of our trip in English.

History: On Thursday we had a visit from Lytham Fire Brigade. This is linked to our topic the Great Fire of London. We enjoyed sitting in the fire engine and even got to use the hose. We started to learn about what London looked like in 1666, then discovered there was a fire, we have enjoyed watching different videos with magic Grandad being a class favourite.

Today we had a great fire of London day and did lots of great activities. We compared fire engines now and then, started to make wattle and daub panels and rebuilt the city of London in a way that would prevent the fire happening again.

Castle: On Thursday we opened Castle Hodges we listened to a story in it and enjoyed playing in there at break times.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our awardees, two Sadie Spiders for their determination with their handwriting and for super spellings.

Henry is going home with these children for both having a great week and for excellent work in Maths and English, well done.

Reading Challenge: I am really sorry I didn’t get chance to sort out certificates today. It is our last week of certificates, Wednesday will be the last day to recieve a certificate as Thursday will be a very busy day.

Reminders:

• Don’t forgot to bring in a coat just incase it rains, we try to get outside as much as possible.

• Mass for Year 6 and Mrs Hodges: On Wednesday we will be walking to church to celebrate our fantastic Year 6’s and our caring, wonderful Mrs Hodges! Please make sure you have a waterproof with you just in case!

• Please send in a large plastic bag on Monday as we will be preparing the children’s work, wellingtons and any belongings in their trays ready to take home on Tuesday. This will give us plenty of time to make sure all items have been returned! Thank you

• We break up on Thursday 20th July at 2pm

  
  Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Homework 14.7.23

Thank you for all of your hard work, this year.

My homework is to please send in a large plastic bag on Monday as we will be preparing the children’s work, wellingtons and any belongings in their trays ready to take home on Tuesday and Wednesday. This will give us plenty of time to make sure all items have been returned! Thank you

We will also be collecting books in from Monday, we have changed them all today for a last read over the weekend and it gives your child to gain their certificates. The children can read their own books at home if they are a few away from their award, please ensure it is completed by Wednesday so we have time to hand them out. Thank you.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Homework 7.7.23

Thank you for your train homework, the children loved sharing them with the class, some forgot to bring their trains in so I said we can share them next week.

Please continue to read regulary at home, or complete some Phonics activites your effort at home has helped the children make great progress.

I am so sorry with all the trips, sports day and transition. I completely forgot about our spelling test. This will done done at some point next week. Thank you for your understanding.

This is our big spelling test with all the words we have learnt so far as there are 23 spellings.

my were says are said

here our house pull love

come put push school where

there friend ask once your

today one be

These are the ongoing IXL challenges:

These activities will help consolidate the skills being taught in maths and improve their fluency.

K.Addition skill builders

1. Adding 1

2. Adding 2

3. Adding 3

4. Adding 4

5. Adding 5

6. Adding 6

7. Adding 7

8. Adding 8

9. Adding 9

10. Adding 10

11. Adding 0

L.Addition up to 5

1. Put together cubes - sums up to 5

2. Take apart numbers up to 5: words

3. Add with cubes - sums up to 5

4. Add with pictures - sums up to 5

5. Addition sentences up to 5: which model matches?

6. Addition sentences up to 5: what does the model show?

7. Take apart numbers up to 5: addition sentences

8. Add two numbers - sums up to 5

9. Make a number using addition - sums up to 5

10. Complete the addition sentence - sums up to 5

11. Addition word problems with pictures - sums up to 5

12. Addition word problems - sums up to 5

M.Addition up to 10

1. Put together cubes - sums up to 10

2. Take apart numbers up to 10: words

3. Decompose a number up to 10

4. Add with cubes - sums up to 10

5. Add with pictures - sums up to 10

6. Addition sentences up to 10: which model matches?

7. Addition sentences up to 10: what does the model show?

8. Take apart numbers up to 10: addition sentences

9. Add two numbers - sums up to 10

10. Make a number using addition - sums up to 10

11. Complete the addition sentence - sums up to 10

12. Complete the addition sentence - make 10

13. Write addition sentences - sums up to 10

14. Addition word problems with pictures - sums up to 10

15. Addition word problems - sums up to 10

16. Add doubles with models

17. Add doubles

18. Add doubles: complete the sentence

19. Add using doubles plus one

20. Add using doubles minus one

21. Add three numbers

N.Addition up to 20

1. Add with pictures - sums up to 20

2. Addition sentences up to 20: what does the model show?

3. Add one-digit numbers - sums up to 20

4. Add any two numbers - sums up to 20

5. Make a number using addition - sums up to 20

6. Complete the addition sentence - sums up to 20

7. Addition word problems - sums up to 20

8. Related addition facts

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Weekly Blog 7.7.23

What another incredibly busy week! Two school trips, sports day and a transition day. I am so proud of the children, they were brilliant on our school trips and tried their best on sports day. I can’t believe there are only 8 1/2 days left of school!

Today we had our transition into Year 2 the children came back with huge smiles and told me all about their morning. They all have a button and their challenge is to look after it and bring it back to school in September.

Maths: This week we have created our own subtraction number stories, and then used these to fill in their cherry part-part whole diagrams.

English: We have started to write the begining of our story and will continue it next week. Thank you for the amazing train homework,the children loved sharing their trains.

Geography/DT/Science: as part of our topic work we visited Ridgeway farm and went to St Annes farmers market. The children enjoyed both trips and asked wonderful questions. We learnt so much!

Sports Day:

Well done to Marsden who won overall. The children were amazing and enjoyedsports day. It was lovely to see so many grown ups supporting their children, the children loved seeing you. Thank you :)

St Annes Train Trip:

On Tuesday 11th July we are going to look at St Annes Railway station and walk to the front to ride the miniature train and have an ice-cream. This is linked to our English topic Trains. Please wear appropriate clothing for the morning as we will be outside, school uniform or PE kit and a coat, thank you.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our awardees, two Clara Clownfishes for asking wonderful questions on our school trip and linking their learning.

Henry is going home with this person for a brilliant week in school, you have really been focused and were excellent on our school trips well done.

Reading Challenge: Well done to these children who received their certificates, there are so many that are very close, keep up the hard work :).

Green Day Friday 14th July

The Eco council are raising money for new general and recycling bins for the playground. Please bring a pound and wear green.

Reminders:

• Preparing for the weather: As the weather is improving children are allowed to bring in a sunhat, which can be worn at break times and any sun cream that is brought in must be applied by the child themselves, roll on sun creams are easier to apply. We also ask that no sunglasses are to be brought into the school. Thank you.

•  Please can you try and bring in healthy snacks for your children to eat at break times, we always have fruit in school that the children can have.

• Please can you double check that all items of clothing are labelled.

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

  
  Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 30.6.23

We have been working very hard this week. We are looking foward to a very exciting week next week!

Maths: We have been looking at subtraction and making up our own number stories using the Rekenreks.

English: We made our posters independently I was verry impressed! We have started our train topic we read the books: ‘How to Train a Train’ and ‘Thomas goes Crash’ we have found out lots of interesting facts out about trains.

Science: we discussed signs of Summer and took a picture with our class tree, then compared our tree in the different seasons. We talked about the changes that happened each season and remembered that we were surprised during Spring because there were still no leaves on our tree! This was because it was so cold in Spring, it took a lot longer for the leaves to grow back on our tree we are pleased to see they have grown back in Summer.

Mass: yesterday it was lovely to walk with our Year 5 buddies, and the rest of the school to attend our reflective mass for the feast day of St Peter and St Paul.

Upcoming Trips:

We have lots of exciting trips coming up.

Ridgeway Farm:

On Tuesday 4th July we will be visiting Ridgeway farm, as part of our Science, Geography and DT topic.

If you have said you are bringing a packed lunch please bring it in, everyone else I have ordered school lunches.

Please wear appropriate clothing for the farm (non-school uniform) and bring a waterproof coat as we will be out in all weathers, it is recommended that you wear wellington boots, or old outdoor shoes.

On Thursday 6th July in the morning we will be visiting St Annes Farmers Market, we will meet and chat to the different stall holders to find out more about where their produce has come from.

On Tuesday 11th July we are going to look at St Annes Railway station and walk to the front to ride the miniature train and have an ice-cream. This is linked to our English topic Trains.

The total cost for these trips will be £13.50, Mrs Hodges has put the trip on Parent Pay.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our awardees, a Bobby Bee and Sadie Spider for great enthusiasm in lessons and for not giving up.

Henry is going home with this person for a brilliant week in school, you have really been focused and a great role model.

Reading Challenge: Well done to these children who received their certificates, there are so many that are very close, keep up the hard work :). We have our first Emerald award too!

Sports Day is on Thursday 6th July at 1:30, we have been practising and are excited for you to come and watch us.

Reminders:

• Preparing for the weather: As the weather is improving children are allowed to bring in a sunhat, which can be worn at break times and any sun cream that is brought in must be applied by the child themselves, roll on sun creams are easier to apply. We also ask that no sunglasses are to be brought into the school. Thank you.

•  Please can you try and bring in healthy snacks for your children to eat at break times, we always have fruit in school that the children can have.

• Please can you double check that all items of clothing are labelled.

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

  
  Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Homework 30.6.23

We have loved learning about trains this week, please could you make your own train: you can paint it, draw it, make it or bring a toy train in or find out a few facts it is up to you!

Please continue to read regulary at home, or complete some Phonics activites your effort at home has helped the children make great progress.

This is our big spelling test with all the words we have learnt so far as there are 23 spellings the test will be on Friday 7th July.

my were says are said

here our house pull love

come put push school where

there friend ask once your

today one be

These are the ongoing IXL challenges:

These activities will help consolidate the skills being taught in maths and improve their fluency.

K.Addition skill builders

1. Adding 1

2. Adding 2

3. Adding 3

4. Adding 4

5. Adding 5

6. Adding 6

7. Adding 7

8. Adding 8

9. Adding 9

10. Adding 10

11. Adding 0

L.Addition up to 5

1. Put together cubes - sums up to 5

2. Take apart numbers up to 5: words

3. Add with cubes - sums up to 5

4. Add with pictures - sums up to 5

5. Addition sentences up to 5: which model matches?

6. Addition sentences up to 5: what does the model show?

7. Take apart numbers up to 5: addition sentences

8. Add two numbers - sums up to 5

9. Make a number using addition - sums up to 5

10. Complete the addition sentence - sums up to 5

11. Addition word problems with pictures - sums up to 5

12. Addition word problems - sums up to 5

M.Addition up to 10

1. Put together cubes - sums up to 10

2. Take apart numbers up to 10: words

3. Decompose a number up to 10

4. Add with cubes - sums up to 10

5. Add with pictures - sums up to 10

6. Addition sentences up to 10: which model matches?

7. Addition sentences up to 10: what does the model show?

8. Take apart numbers up to 10: addition sentences

9. Add two numbers - sums up to 10

10. Make a number using addition - sums up to 10

11. Complete the addition sentence - sums up to 10

12. Complete the addition sentence - make 10

13. Write addition sentences - sums up to 10

14. Addition word problems with pictures - sums up to 10

15. Addition word problems - sums up to 10

16. Add doubles with models

17. Add doubles

18. Add doubles: complete the sentence

19. Add using doubles plus one

20. Add using doubles minus one

21. Add three numbers

N.Addition up to 20

1. Add with pictures - sums up to 20

2. Addition sentences up to 20: what does the model show?

3. Add one-digit numbers - sums up to 20

4. Add any two numbers - sums up to 20

5. Make a number using addition - sums up to 20

6. Complete the addition sentence - sums up to 20

7. Addition word problems - sums up to 20

8. Related addition facts

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Homework 23.6.23

Please continue to read regualry at home, or complete some Phonics activites your effort at home has helped the children make great progress.

This is our big spelling test with all the words we have learnt so far as there are 23 spellings the test will be on Friday 7th July this gives you a few weeks to practise at home:

my were says are said

here our house pull love

come put push school where

there friend ask once your

today one be

These are the ongoing IXL challenges:

These activities will help consolidate the skills being taught in maths and improve their fluency.

K.Addition skill builders

1. Adding 1

2. Adding 2

3. Adding 3

4. Adding 4

5. Adding 5

6. Adding 6

7. Adding 7

8. Adding 8

9. Adding 9

10. Adding 10

11. Adding 0

L.Addition up to 5

1. Put together cubes - sums up to 5

2. Take apart numbers up to 5: words

3. Add with cubes - sums up to 5

4. Add with pictures - sums up to 5

5. Addition sentences up to 5: which model matches?

6. Addition sentences up to 5: what does the model show?

7. Take apart numbers up to 5: addition sentences

8. Add two numbers - sums up to 5

9. Make a number using addition - sums up to 5

10. Complete the addition sentence - sums up to 5

11. Addition word problems with pictures - sums up to 5

12. Addition word problems - sums up to 5

M.Addition up to 10

1. Put together cubes - sums up to 10

2. Take apart numbers up to 10: words

3. Decompose a number up to 10

4. Add with cubes - sums up to 10

5. Add with pictures - sums up to 10

6. Addition sentences up to 10: which model matches?

7. Addition sentences up to 10: what does the model show?

8. Take apart numbers up to 10: addition sentences

9. Add two numbers - sums up to 10

10. Make a number using addition - sums up to 10

11. Complete the addition sentence - sums up to 10

12. Complete the addition sentence - make 10

13. Write addition sentences - sums up to 10

14. Addition word problems with pictures - sums up to 10

15. Addition word problems - sums up to 10

16. Add doubles with models

17. Add doubles

18. Add doubles: complete the sentence

19. Add using doubles plus one

20. Add using doubles minus one

21. Add three numbers

N.Addition up to 20

1. Add with pictures - sums up to 20

2. Addition sentences up to 20: what does the model show?

3. Add one-digit numbers - sums up to 20

4. Add any two numbers - sums up to 20

5. Make a number using addition - sums up to 20

6. Complete the addition sentence - sums up to 20

7. Addition word problems - sums up to 20

8. Related addition facts

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Weekly Blog 23.6.23 ‘A little magic can take you a long way.’

‘A little magic can take you a long way.’

Roald Dahl

I can’t believe we at the end of another week already! Even though there are only a few weeks left we have lots of exciting activities planned.

Maths: We continued our addition work and made up our own number stories using the ten frames, ‘first I had 5 chocolates, then I had 3 more, now there are 8 chocolates’ we used 2 different colour counters to represent our objects and told our stories the class. We were very creative.

English: We discussed pet shops and looked around one online then we came up with our own sentences, ‘I went the the pet shop and saw a fluffy dog with a long tail’. We worked in groups to think about how we coud look after a pet rabbit, next week we are going to make posters using our work bank sheets.

Gym Jam Jog: What a great turn out we loved running in our Pjs and eating toast together in the classroom. Thank you for your support it was lovely to see all the children and grown ups enjoying themselves.

Yesterday we all completed a mini first aid course, we learnt how to put a plaster on, who we call when there is an emergency and what we can do if someone is lying on their back and needs help. We loved listening to the story the mini adventures of Freddie especially because we have a Freddie in our class too!

This was our finial visit to the library in Year 1 we listened to a poem and a Roald Dahl traditional story, we returned books and borrowed new ones. We were very pleased to see our picture that we made to say thank you for the library was in the children area. There’s an exciting summer challenge that starts on 1st July pop into the library to find out more information.

Upcoming Trips:

We have lots of exciting trips coming up.

Ridgeway Farm:

On Tuesday 4th July we will be visiting Ridgeway farm, as part of our Science, Geography and DT topic.

On Thursday 6th July in the morning we will be visiting St Annes Farmers Market, we will meet and chat to the different stall holders to find out more about where their produce has come from.

On Tuesday 11th July we are going to look at St Annes Railway station and walk to the front to ride the miniature train and have an ice-cream. This is linked to our English topic Trains.

The total cost for these trips will be £13.50, Mrs Hodges has put the trip on Parent Pay.

Let’s Celebrate:

Well done to our awardees, a Kiki Chameleon for creative storytelling and a Bobby Bee for enthusiasm in RWI.

Henry is going home with this person for a brilliant week, you have been a very kind friend and been very focused in all lessons especially RWI.

Reading Challenge: Unfortunately due to staff illness, we didn’t get chance to check certificates or change books, we will do this next week. Thank you for your understanding.

Sports Day is on Thursday 6th July at 1:30, we have been practising and are excited for you to come and watch us.

Reminders:

• Preparing for the weather: As the weather is improving children are allowed to bring in a sunhat, which can be worn at break times and any sun cream that is brought in must be applied by the child themselves, roll on sun creams are easier to apply. We also ask that no sunglasses are to be brought into the school. Thank you.

•  Please can you try and bring in healthy snacks for your children to eat at break times, we always have fruit in school that the children can have.

• Please can you double check that all items of clothing are labelled.

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

  
  Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 16.6.23 'The world belongs to those who read.'

‘The world belongs to those who read.’

Rick Holland

Wow, the children have been so resilient this week, it has been very hot and we have had our Phonics screening. I am so proud of everyone they have all worked incredibly hard and stayed focused.

As a treat we enjoyed ice pops and a film this afternoon, thank you again for all of your hard work at home, it has shown this week and I can’t believe how much progress has been made.

Maths: We have revisited teen numbers again and used the rekenreks to make these number remembering 10 and a bit. Our stem sentences we have been practising are 10 needs …… to make…. ….. is made from 10 and ….

English: We have started editing and marking our wonderful work from last half term, we are looking forward to our new topic next week Pets and Trains all will be revealed in the next few weeks :).

 PE: We practised our bouncing skills on Monday and on my duties I brought the balls out so we could practise during playtime, we loved it! Today we practised our Sports Day activities and races, we are excited for our Sports Day on Tuesday.

RE: We loved our lesson with Mrs Hotchkiss, we learnt that Jesus showed his great power when he calmed the wind and waves. We reflected that we can ask Jesus to help us when we are afraid. Here is our re-enactment of Jesus and the storm.

Upcoming Trips:

Library

Our final trip to the library will be on Friday 23rd June, please bring in your library cards, if you would like your child to take a book home.

Ridgeway Farm:

On Tuesday 4th July we will be visiting Ridgeway farm. Please can you fill in this form so we can order packed lunches. The price of the trip and more information will be available next week.

Let’s Celebrate:

As we have all been amazing, we couldn’t pick two children for our certificates so it is for the whole class for all the learning characters:

Well Done Year 1, it has been a very busy week, You have shown enthusiasm and creativity in our Phonics sessions. You were all focused during the screening, we have worked hard together and supported each other. We were determined to remember our ‘special friends’, ‘Fred talk’ and ‘read the word’ and were reflective with our learning to keep improving. I am so proud of each of you and for all of your hard work.

 Keep it up :)

Henry is going home with this person for a brilliant week, you have been focused this week in all lessons, well done :).

Reading Challenge: Well done to these children who received their certificates, there are so many that are very close, keep up the hard work :).

Sports Day is on Tuesday 20th June Weather permitting at 1:30 we are looking forward to seeing you :).

Gym Jam Jog is on Wednesday 21st June at 8am don’t forget your sponsorship forms and come in your pyjamas.

Reminders:

• Preparing for the weather: As the weather is improving children are allowed to bring in a sunhat, which can be worn at break times and any sun cream that is brought in must be applied by the child themselves, roll on sun creams are easier to apply. We also ask that no sunglasses are to be brought into the school. Thank you.

•  Please can you try and bring in healthy snacks for your children to eat at break times, we always have fruit in school that the children can have.

• Please can you double check that all items of clothing are labelled.

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

• Please can you ensure that your children do not bring any valuables into school as they can easily go missing.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Homework 16.6.23

The children have worked very hard this week and deserve a treat so my homework is to enjoy your weekend and have lots of fun, hopefully it stays sunny.

 Once again thank you for all of your support, the children have made so much progress this year and I am incredibly proud of them :)

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Homework 26.5.23

We have been working on accurate reading rather than speedy reading in preparation for our Phonics screening, there are three things to remember: special friends (ai, igh, o-e), Fred Talk(sound it out loud), read the word. I have given everyone flashcards to practise their accurate reading it is not a race, it is important that they take their time, find the special friends first and say each sound this will help them blend properly. Try and practice words with chatty friends ( a-e, e-e, o-e, i-e, u-e) these are harder to find and alien words as we want to make then into real words. Words like whike, stroke, smung and spran are tricky as sometimes the children want to add extra letters (smung: smug/ suming, spran: sprant, or mix up ‘ro’ and ‘or’ stroke: storke). If you have any questions please email me and I can help.

Here are some more flashcards that you can use, if needed. There is no need to print them off you can show them on an iPad or computer.

Spellings will continue after half term so your child can focus on their phonics, please access these helpful resources below and use the websites the children love playing the games. If you any extra support, information please email me and I can help you.

Help your child – Year 1

 Thank you for all of your support the children have made so much progress this year and I am incredibly proud of them :)

Have a lovely break.

Miss Drummond

Year 1 Weekly Blog 26.5.23 'Not trying is much worse than failing.'

‘Not trying is much worse than failing.’

A World Without Failures by Esther Pia Cordova

What another busy week we have had, we have been incredibly focused in our RWI sessions to help prepare us for our phonics screening, this will take place the week we return to school Monday 12th June- Friday 16th June. It is really important that you use your phonics pack to practise and maintain their hard work at school as 2 weeks is a long time. It doesn’t need to be hours just a quick 10 minutes daily (if possible) or as much as you can, something is better than nothing at all. Once again thank you for all of your support at home, it is wonderful to hear how excited the children are to share their learning with you at home. I have been told about phonics lessons at home and I can see how proud they are, and we are too :). Here are the links again we love these games.

Maths: We have continued writing ‘equations’ (e.g. 5 + 2 = 7), we have been checking that the plus and equal symbols are in the right place. We have been telling our own number stories to each other and writing the correct equations to match.

English: We have been amazed by all of the children’s writing this week, they have used their innovated story maps to retell their own story independently. It has been great that they have been focused and have not given up when they have found it difficult and most importantly applying their phonics knowledge to support them.

 PE: We loved our extra PE lesson on Thursday afternoon with Year 2 to practise our sport day activities. We did it again today and are excited to show you when it is our sports day.

Music: look at our brilliant performance of us and down, this time we used musical instruments.

On Thursday I set the children a challenge, could they play with somebody they don’t normally play with in our class. At first we were a bit worried, but we were up for the challenge. I was so pleased to hear all the lovely stories and games they played together, most children decided to sit next to them at lunch time and most importantly we all had fun. I am so proud of all the lovely friendships we have developed in our class and we are being kind friends to each other by making sure nobody is by themselves.

Upcoming Trips:

Library

Our final trip to the library will be on Friday 23rd June, please bring in your library cards, if you would like your child to take a book home.

Ridgeway Farm:

On Tuesday 4th July we will be visiting Ridgeway farm, I will provide more details after half term.

Let’s Celebrate:

Congratulations to our awardees: two ‘Bobby Bees’ for their fantastic innovated independent stories, well done.

Henry is going home with this person for always making good choices and being brave and playing with new friends, well done :).

Reading Challenge: Well done to these children who received their certificates, there are so many that are very close, keep up the hard work :). I will be creating some new certificates for next half term for those who have achieved their platinum award.

Reminders:

• Preparing for the weather: As the weather is improving children are allowed to bring in a sunhat, which can be worn at break times and any sun cream that is brought in must be applied by the child themselves, roll on sun creams are easier to apply. We also ask that no sunglasses are to be brought into the school. Thank you.

•  Please can you try and bring in healthy snacks for your children to eat at break times, we always have fruit in school that the children can have.

• Please can you double check that all items of clothing are labelled.

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

• Please can you ensure that your children do not bring any valuables into school as they can easily go missing.

Have a lovely break

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher

Year 1 Weekly Blog 19.5.23 'somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world'

‘somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world'

Matida, Roald Dahl

What a fabulous week we have had, a little bit of sunshine has made us feel happier. We have enjoyed learning about Queen Victoria and how she influenced the trend for white wedding dresses and tiered cakes. We compared her wedding dress to the wedding dresses that other royal brides wore. We drew her wedding dress and cake and then designed our own. What great designers we are. We have continued sharing our history homework and we have learnt so many interesting facts! for examle King Charles 111 is the oldest King aged 73 to be crowned and King Edward V1 the youngest at the age of 9

Maths: We have started writing ‘expressions’ (e.g. 5 + 2) and ‘equations’ (e.g. 5 + 2 = 7), We are looking at the plus and equals symbol, we have practised the stem sentences …. plus…. is equal to and … is equal to ….. plus …… and writing four equations to match the pictures e.g there are three blue birds and two yellow birds:

• 3+2=5

• 2+3=5,

• 5=2+3,

• 5=3+2

  We learnt that an addend is a number which is added to another and sum is the result of adding two or more numbers together. So the addends above are 3 and 2 and the sum is 5.

  Today we rotated different activities to give us the opportunity to practise the skills taught in maths.

English: We finished writing our retell of the Caveman Next Door and have started to innovate our stories changing the main characters and the places they visit. We are so impressed with the children’s independent writing, we are becoming accurate spellers applying the skills learnt in RWI and working hard on our handwriting and enjoying the challenge of cursive writing.

Next week we will be focusing on strategies to prepare us for our Phonics screening, this will commence the week we come back after our half term holiday. I will be making up packs next week for your half term holiday homework. Please read as much as you can and use the resources that are on the help your child at home section. There are some great games on the Phonics play and Phonics bloom websites.

Help your child – Year 1

 PE: We have loved our PE lessons this week, on Monday we played throlf, which is like golf but you roll or throw underarm or overarm to the target, some children managed a hole in one! Today we had a relay race.

On Thursday the whole school attended Mass, to celebrate the Ascension of Jesus into heaven. We walked and sat with our Year 5 buddies, we have developed some lovely relationships and the children are always excited to see each other.

Look at our brilliant performance of the song up and down, we have been learning this song in our music sessions.

Computing: on Purple Mash we learnt how to create a simple algorithm by using the direction keys to move the characters in the right direction and we learnt how to debug their algorithm, if we had made a mistake, we enjoyed these challenges. If your child would like to have another go, I have set it as a 2do. See if they can remember how to find and complete the challenges. Open the 2do, click on the purple menu button top left of screen, click new, click on challenges we only went up to challenge 4 but they can complete all of the challenges if they want to have a go, they get more difficult each level. Next lesson we will complete longer algorithms and creating our own challenges for each other.

Show and Tell

Please can we not bring toys in for show and tell, I do not want them to break or go missing, It has been lovely to hear about all our achievements outside of school. We didn’t get chance to finish our show and tell today so if you have something to share you can bring it in on Monday.

Let’s Celebrate:

Congratualtions to our awardees: a Sadie spider for her determination in Maths and a Lizzie Ladybird for brilliant sentences.

As everyone has had Henry we voted in class if we wanted to continue to send Henry home or to stop. As there are not enough weeks in the year for everyone to take Henry home twice. We discussed that although we will feel disappointed we should be pleased for our friends and if you take Henry home not to show off and to also to be kind and considerate. 26 voted to said continue and 4 said to stop so Henry is going home with this person for always working hard a for being a great role model in our class :).

Reading Challenge: Well done to these children who received their certificates, there are so many that are very close, keep up the hard work :).

Reminders:

• Preparing for the weather: As the weather is improving children are allowed to bring in a sunhat, which can be worn at break times and any sun cream that is brought in must be applied by the child themselves, roll on sun creams are easier to apply. We also ask that no sunglasses are to be brought into the school. Thank you.

•  Please can you try and bring in healthy snacks for your children to eat at break times, we always have fruit in school that the children can have.

• Please can you double check that all items of clothing are labelled.

•  Please bring in spare clothes for your child.

• Please check the home learning section for the homework,

• Please make sure you don’t bring any nuts in for snack or in packed lunches, thank you.

• Please can you ensure that your children do not bring any valuables into school as they can easily go missing.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Drummond, Miss Johnson and Mrs Carragher