General information
TA- Mrs Middleton
The Greeks- Class 1G- Miss Smith
TA- Miss DeCleen
PE Arrangements for Summer Term
PE lessons will take place on a Friday morning for all of Year 1. Your child will need a white T-shirt, black shorts or joggers and plimsoles which will need to be kept in a named drawstring PE bag. Long hair needs to be tied back and earrings should be removed.
Week Beginning 1st July 2019
We are continuing our topic ‘Oh I do like to be beside the Seaside’. This week we will be beginning to learn all about pirates! We have our pirate launch day on Tuesday, we can’t wait! We will also be taking our learning outside the classroom and investigating ‘forces’ on the playground.
As Readers we will: –
Tap and clap key vocabulary linked to the seaside.
- Tap and clap our Common Exception Words and play Scrabbled Eggs.
- Be Resilient Readers and understand that answers are in our heads.
- Use a variety of our ‘pirate’ vocabulary words in our writing about the Seaside’.
- Practise reading real and non-real words.
- Complete the Reading Challenge – remember to read for 5 minutes, 5 times a week.
- Enjoy sharing our books with an adult during our Guided Reading session..
As Writers we will:-
- Use our sounds to write captions for photos from our trip to the beach and Landguard Fort last week.
- Use our Legends of Literacy to identify and use verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs and use them in our character profiles of our pirates.
- Continue to practise our Common Exception Words.
- Continue to practice our cursive handwriting.
As Mathematicians we will:
• Consolidate our number knowledge to 40.
• Begin to explore numbers to 100.
• Continue to learn how to partition 2 digit numbers.
• Ensure we count carefully and we understand tens and ones.
• Use vocabulary such as count, tens, ones and numbers.
• Count in 2s, 5s and 10s.
• Carry out our BMBT challenges with Mrs Allen and try to beat our score.
In Science we will:-
• Continue our new topic ‘Forces’.
• Tap and clap key our Scientific vocabulary.
• Take our learning outside the classroom and investigate Forces outside on a pirate ship.
• Use sentences stems to write sentences about the forces we have experienced.
•Draw a diagram and add labels.
• Sing some songs about Forces.
In PE we will:-
• Continue to practise some of our sports day activities.
• Begin to use equipment like javelins, beanbags and giant numicon.
In History we will:-
• Begin to learn about an important historical figure..
- Look at historical artefacts to aid our learning.
- Look at and discuss pictures from the past and talk about how they are different from today.
- Begin to compare the past to the present.
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In Computing we will:-
• Continue to use the IPads.
• Link our learning and use Garage Band app to explore, record and create sound effects.
• Use and explore a variety of educational apps.
• Work collaboratively.
• Know that simple actions produce predictable results.
Don’t forget to complete the reading challenge this week. Well done to the children who completed the Reading Challenge. Mrs Taylor’s class achieved 65%(that’s 20 out of 29) and Miss Smith’s class achieved 70% (that’s 19 out of 27). Great work – keep reading! We still want a KS1 class to top the leader board! We can do it.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK IN YEAR ONE! YOU’RE ALL AMAZING!
English Curriculum for the Summer Term. As Readers, we will be exploring a variety of texts about ‘The Seaside’. We will find information in non-fiction books, learning how to use the contents & index pages. As Writers, we will use ‘story telling’ language & actions to retell and create our own stories, using ‘story bags’. Seaside Poems will be discussed and we will write our own poems. We will continue to learn to read and write our sounds. Your child will continue to bring home a Library Book and Reading Book weekly. Your help and support with reading is invaluable. Remember to ask them lots of questions about the books they read too! Weekly Maths and English homework challenges will continue, as well as weekly spellings. Your help and support with reading and spelling is invaluable. Our English curriculum SFA (Success for All) will continue. This skills-based curriculum helps to develop the children’s reading and comprehension, basic grammar, phonics and spelling, and encourages co-operative learning. We will use Resilient Reader and Legends of Literacy strategies to improve our reading and grammar skills. Don’t forget to complete the Reading Challenge every week! We challenge you to read for 5 minutes, 5 times a week at home! Come on Year One! We haven’t topped the leader board yet!
Maths Curriculum for the Summer Term. We will continue to follow our exciting ‘Inspire Maths Curriculum’. As Mathematicians, we will read, write and order numbers up to 100 and beyond. We will practise solving addition and subtraction problems involving numbers up to 20 and beyond and represent our work with numbers, pictures and symbols. We will practise adding and subtracting on a number line. We will practise telling the time, recognising o’clock and half past. We will investigate and compare different masses and capacities. Please help your child to learn the remaining addition ‘Learn-Its’ for this term so that they can continue to beat their ‘Big Maths, Beat That’ score! We will continue to send home CLIC challenges to improve calculation skills. DON’T FORGET TO KEEP PRACTISING YOUR NUMBER POUCH AT HOME TOO
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Year 1 Bulletins
Watch out for ‘Marvellous Me’ messages from your child’s teachers. We LOVE Marvellous Me at Trimley St Mary – it’s a fantastic way to encourage, praise and celebrate successes and achievements in school.
Take the time to talk with your child about their learning! Because …… everyone’s a SUPERHERO!!
Parent Helpers Welcome!
We welcome parents into school, to help our children to improve their reading skills. If you are able to spare a morning or an afternoon, on a regular basis, please let your child’s teacher know. We are very appreciative of your additional support, and it makes a huge difference to the children’s learning. We would love you to come and join us! Tea and coffee provided too!
Reading Challenge
Don’t forget to read for 5 minutes, 5 times a week!
Your reading Challenge Slip must be returned on MONDAY MORNING so the ‘scores on the doors’ can be collated by class teachers during registration and sent to the school office.
Come on Year 1! A KS1 class has never topped the leader board! We need 75% of our classes to read to meet Mrs Ashford’s challenge. Class Prizes available too. Keep reading!!