Year 1 - Half Term Home Learning

Hello everyone,

Unbelievably we are already at the end of the first half term this Summer! As we have had quite a short half term we will be continuing with our 'Pirates' theme when we return for a couple more weeks. After this we will be moving on to two short topics to see out the remainder of the year... both of which are very exciting! 

We will be looking at Mary Poppins - this will be supported with a trip - and then we have a whole school Inclusive Sports Fortnight where we have lots of things planned. More details will follow regarding these! 

So, with half term next week I will be setting the children a challenge for the holidays! As well as sunning yourselves and generally having a fab time with all your great family outings, we would like you to create a boat that will float!  This will mean investigating floating materials and then using them! If you would like to bring in any knowledge/facts/interesting things about boats then please feel free to add this. 

As always, the children's own work and learning are the key here... Even if it is a simple paper boat! There will be a sheet coming home tomorrow with some ideas on. The deadline for this will be Thursday 6th June. If anyone has any questions, please don't hesitate to come and chat to us. 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Big Write and Assembly Date...

Hi everyone,

A note to say that the date I shared with you all during the parent info session of 21st June for our class assembly was wrong! The date will now be Friday 28th June. Apologies for any confusion. It will still be at the regular time of 9.20am. 

Tomorrow, all children will come home with the next topic for our Big Write! This will concern trying to persuade a pirate to give up his life of piracy and trade it for the good life! There will be lots of questions to discuss at home as well as some persuasive writing techniques! Any discussion you can have at home will be much appreciated. 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Bits and Pieces...

Hello everyone,

We continue to crack on with our Pirate learning and last week we began writing some adventure stories based on The Midnight Pirates story by Peter Harris. This coming week we will be looking to develop these by making plans for our stories before writing them and we will begin using a 'Story Mountain' to help guide our stories - the image below will hopefully help to show this... This is the start to us building up our Big Write that will be happening in the final week of this half term.

Thank you to everyone that came along to the parent info session last Thursday! Hopefully you found this useful if not a little unique. In this I shared how we plan to teach the class about the Sex and Relationships Education part of our Jigsaw scheme. If anyone has any questions on this please do not hesitate to come and see us.

Well done for all the practicing with the spellings that we are sending home at the moment! These words reflect the increased challenge we have set the class as they continue to stretch our expectations. 

Quick note about accelerated reader - When you return your books to the library please make sure you scan the book back in and then accept the return by clicking the relevant button on the computer. This is to ensure you are able to continue taking books out. A reminder that each child is allowed a maximum of 3 books at any one time. If anyone needs help with this come and let us know. 

Year 1 team