Year 1 Friday Blog - 28th June 2024

Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 6:48pm

Dear parents,

Welcome to the Year 1 Friday blog!

Each week you will find out what we have been doing in class, weekly spellings and lots more.

Thank you for your support with our new weekly blogs. It has been fantastic to hear the children talking about them in school this week. Every Friday the blog will be shared with the class to recap our learning and make them aware of their homework. Moving to online homework has allowed us to become a more eco friendly school. Throughout the week we will be learning about the spelling rule in preparation for the quiz on Thursday.

Homework

*** Please look at the files to download section for this weeks Wellbeing Homework. ***

Reading - Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night. Question prompts are provided within reading books, coloured book marks and reading records. Asking questions improves key reading skills, such as retrieval and inference.

Phonics - The children are confident in recognising their phase 3 and phase 5 sounds. Please encourage them to apply this knowledge when completing any writing activities at home.

Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below. In the 'files to download' section you will find an overview of spellings for this half term and spelling strategies to use at home.

Homework folders do not need to be returned to school.

Our learning this week in Year 1

English

In English this week, the children have worked super hard planning and writing their big writes. Next week, we will be writing our own version of Alfie the Lonely Pirate.

Maths

In Maths this week, we have been focusing on addition and subtraction. We have been looking at using partitioning and our knowledge of the number bonds to 10 to help solve harder questions.

Science

In science we have been looking at the structure of plants and what part they play in supporting the plant to live.

Geography

In Geography, we have looked into the countryside code and how to protect and look after the countryside.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

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Sports Day

Sports Day is next Tuesday 3rd July:

1:15pm Reception, Year 1 and Year 2

2:15pm Years 3-6

Children can come to school ready for sports day in their team sporty clothes (a team coloured t-shirt: Air- Yellow, Earth – Green, Fire – Red, Water – Blue, black shorts and trainers). Please also ensure children have a water bottle and that sun cream is applied before they come to school. Our PTFA are running a tuck shop and refreshments from 2pm.

Children are able to leave with parents after they have finished their races: if you would like to pick your child up, please do so by going round to the playground and collecting them from their classroom door.

Please could we ask that you don’t encourage younger siblings to play on St Mary’s outside play equipment during our Sports Day – thank you!

If we have to cancel due to bad weather, we will text all parents on the day as early as possible. Our reserve Sports Day in this case would be Wednesday 10th July. We look forward to having you with us!

Transition Morning

We are looking forward to 'moving up' morning on Wednesday 3rd July. Your child will spend a morning in their new classroom with their new teachers and the support staff who will be working with the children from September. We all have lots of exciting activities planned.

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Kath from Euxton library came to school this week to tell the children about the Summer reading challenge. The challenge is for children to read five books during the summer, and complete a number of challenges. By completing these challenges they'll unlock prizes along the way as well as the chance to be entered into a prize draw for a free Lego kit. All participating children will be able to visit one of Lancashire's museums for free with an adult, as well as regular activities taking place in all libraries in Lancashire. The challenge will launch on Saturday 6th July and runs until the end of September. Please go to see Kath at Euxton library if you would like to register and take part.

Have a lovely weekend!

The Year 1 team

Files to Download

My Week of Wellbeing.pdf