Welcome to our class website page. Here you will find lots of information about the things we will be busy doing in school. Make sure you check the website regularly for any updates we might have put on here. We look forward to sharing our Year 1 journey together.

From Mrs Dobson and Miss Roberts

 

Watch out for all the latest news here! I will let you know what has been updated on the website. 

 

What's coming up?

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Did you have a wonderful Easter break?  We certainly hope so! Welcome to the Summer Term!

This term we will be focussing on the great outdoors! We will be learning all about plants and trees in science, naming them and seeing what makes them grow.  In history, we will be finding out what an explorer is and how explorers of the past have changed our world. In Art, we will look at sculptures, large and small. Working together as a team, we will create our own group sculpture.  

All of this will help us with our writing and maths.  We will be looking at stories about growing plants, creating magical worlds and then having a go at writing our own story.  Of course, we will be expecting the children to remember all the things that make our writing super! So we continue to check that each sentence makes sense, has a capital letter at the start and punctuation at the end. In maths, our knowledge of numbers will continue to grow, and we will practise the skills of adding and subtraction. We also start looking at counting in groups of numbers: 2's, 5's and 10's, preparing for multiplication and division.

OUR DAILY ROUTINE:

We start every morning at 8.55 with the register, then it is straight into learning, so make sure to set those alarm clocks nice and early to get to school with plenty of time. The doors open at 8.45 and the children use the 10 minutes before the register to find their friends, get their bags ready and change their books if they need to. 

After the register, we get stuck in to our reading squad (these are our reading groups) or spellings. 

The morning continues with Collective Worship, English, playtime, Phonics then maths.  

At lunchtime, we tell the children what they will be having for lunch and we encourage them to remember this so that they can tell the dinner supervisor. After they have eaten, the children go out to play. 

In the afternoon, we have our foundation subjects such as science, RE, History/Geography, Art/DT and PE. The children will also have the opportunity to go to forest school with Miss Roberts. 

 

What do you need to bring to school?

Please make sure you have a named water bottle in school. They are encouraged to drink plenty of water during the day and they can refill them in the classroom.

 

Remember to send your child with a fresh fruit/vegetable snack that they will have in the afternoons every day.

 

We try to get outside for playtime, whatever the weather! So make sure you bring a coat.

 

 

 

PE is on Thursday and Friday.  On these days children can come in their PE kit.

Please ensure that your child’s belongings are clearly labelled with their names. This includes water bottles and fruit pots please. 

Art Lessons

We also need an apron to keep our uniform clean when we do art, painting and craft activities as part of our art curriculum.   It is very helpful if you send in an old, adult-sized shirt or t-shirt for the children to wear over their school uniform like an apron. Please ensure that this is named and it will be kept in a box in the classroom ready to use.