Year 1 - iPad Workshop

Hello everyone,

Today the year 1 class had the marvellous opportunity to work with renowned artist Jason Wilsher-Mills. We were using iPads as our medium for some impressive art.

The children were inducted into the app they were using before being let loose to explore, create and express! 

The work that Jason has collected from our school will join hundreds of other children from across Dorchester and culminate in a collective piece of art, all based around emojis and expressions. Watch this space for further news or developments! 

Year 1 team

Tea-Time-Talk-Topic

Tea-Time-Talk-Topic

Hello everyone,

Coming home tonight is the first of our new Tea-time-talk-topics - Alliteration was clearly on my mind when I came came up with that name! 

Articulate speaking is cited repeatedly as being one of the most powerful life skills and this is something we are looking to heighten in school as well as at home.

This is a new weekly initiative to provide a structured opportunity for discussion and talk at home which can then be shared and further developed at school. Each week the topic will change and children will come home with a new conversation starter. 

If anyone has any questions please come and let us know.

Also, coming home tomorrow evening will be the first set of spellings for your child. You will have a week to practice before the spelling test the following Friday! 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - New Half Term, New Routines!

Hello everyone,

I hope that you have all had a lovely, restful half term holiday and are ready and raring to come back to school for the second half of the Autumn term! Loads of things coming up this half term that will be shared with you as we go through the half term.

To begin with though there will be a new structure to the mornings starting when we come back to school on Tuesday... 

On the tables there will be a 'Power Up' that forms part of our Power Maths lesson that will be covering that day. You are very welcome to stay with your child to help during this time if you are able to do so. Some of the Power-ups require a discussion, others require written answers, this will depend on the topic we re covering on the day! We will continue to come to the carpet at the same time. 

The second new routine that will start over half term is that our weekly spellings will be introduced! On Friday we will be sending children home with a copy of these for you to practise at home. The following Friday will be the spelling test for that set and the next set will be sent home! This will continue for the rest of the year. Any questions please come and speak to us. 

Year 1 team