Welcome to Year 1!

Your teachers are Mrs Spratley (AM) and Mrs D (PM)

Your Teaching assistants are Miss Risk (Mon + Tues) and Ms Butler (Wed - Fri)

Important notices

• Lost jumper - please check through any school jumpers you have at home in case it has been taken home accidentally, the jumper is named.
• We would like to kindly remind parents that the school car park is reserved for authorised staff and visitors who have received prior permission from Mrs Bourner. We have had a number of near misses recently caused by cars pulling into the entrance of the school car park to drop off and then pulling out again onto the A4. The A4 is a very busy road, it is important to set a good example to the children so please park sensibly and walk over the footbridge. There is plenty of parking at the village hall and it is only a short 1-2 minute walk from kiss and drop. Thank you.

Our Summer term topic is 'Our Community'

Please see our curriculum bulletin on the helpful information page for more information about the term ahead.

Mon 20th - Fri 24th April

🧮 Maths

We started our new topic of Multiplication and Division. We practiced counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and grouped large amounts of objects into groups of 2s, 5s or 10s to help us to count them more easily.

✏️ Writing
We have started our new books about Florence Nightingale. First we had an 'ideas party' to show everything we have learned about Florence Nightingale and then we decided on some sentences we thought were important to share with others and would write in our books. We have started to write our books and focused on using capital letters and full stops correctly, forming our letters correctly and using our phonic knowledge to make phonetically plausible attempts at unknown words.

📖 Phonics and Reading

Please see the link below for ideas and resources to support your child with their phonics.

Parent guide to Read Write Inc. Phonics - Oxford Owl

Reminder: Please keep reading at home every day and write in your reading record each time you read!

🔬 Science

We started our new topic on 'Humans' and had fun drawing round a classmate and labelling the parts of the body. We looked at similarities and differences between the children in our class. 

✝️ RE (Religious Education)

We introduced Judaism and looked at the question, 'Why is Shabbat important to some Jewish people?'

🤸‍♀️ PE (Physical Education)

We have started athletics and enjoyed having some running races on the field. The children were excitedly talking about sports day last year and they're looking forward to it this year, in June.

Have a lovely weekend! 🌟

The Year One Team

Our value for this term is

Service