Year 1 - Book Bags

Hello everyone,

As we begin Accelerated Reader I just wanted to remind everyone to please keep their school books in their book bags and bring them in to school every day. We do change the days and times that we access these books and it is always useful if they are easily accessed. These are then ready to be taken home daily and used.

As a reminder moving forwards children should have 3 books minimum in their book bags.

1. Their Read, Write Inc book/text

2. Their library book

3. Their Accelerated Reader book.

Thank you for your help and please come and see us if you have any questions. 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Code for Life

Hi all,

Today we have sent children home with their log in cards for Code for Life! 

This is an online website that introduces children to the concept of computer science and some of the terminology used within this. 

To access this you need to head to the school website and click pupil links > year 1 folder > Computing > Code for life.

Once logged in you need to access the Rapid Router section and then the steps are all laid out there! We will be continuing to access this in school also to support the learning of Computer Science further.

If anyone has any problems please let us know.

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Bits and Pieces...

Hello everyone,

A few notices about the week ahead in year 1!

On Tuesday there will be an Accelerated Reader workshop in the year 1 classroom to introduce the online reading platform. This will be a short input as the new Inclusive Playtrail opening will be at 3.45pm

Coming home tomorrow will be a letter explaining about our Astronaut Training Day! This will be taking place on 7th February... More details to follow. 

Another date that has slightly altered is our class assembly. This will now be on Thursday 13th February at the normal time of 9.20am. We look forward to sharing something special with you!

Finally, spellings for this week are

better

under

summer

winter

sister

rubber

her

term

verb

person

Year 1 team

Year 1 - POW Passports!

Hello everyone,

Today we sent children home with their POW Passport. This has been sent home for you to keep at home and share with your children. There should be a letter inside with this explanation and a video explanation on the school Facebook page. If anyone has any questions please come and see us. 

A reminder about the home learning project for this half term... to investigate a planet of your choice and present the information in whichever way you would like to. We have really enjoyed the projects we have in so far and are going to be displaying them in the classroom until the end of our Space topic. 

Finally, a further reminder about the Accelerated Reader parent information session that will be taking place next Tuesday 28th January. There will be a short introduction to the online system and a chance to ask any questions you have.

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Parent Evening Time Slots

Hello everyone,

With parents evening coming up on the 4th & 5th of February we have now put the time sheets up for you to sign up to. There will be in the classroom from tomorrow morning. 

If you are unable to make any of these times please let us know. 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Reading Show and Tell

Hello everyone,

As mentioned in the parent information session and the termly newsletter, we are going to be introducing a new approach to show and tell. 

From tomorrow, there will be 5 children a week chosen to bring in their favourite books and stories from home, if they would like to. Children will then be invited to tell the class about their book; why they like it etc. And if they feel confident too, have a go at reading to the class. 

Through doing this we are aiming to promote a love of reading - continuing that journey towards reading for pleasure - for the children to consider what it is about a book that they enjoy and then read out loud for an audience! 

I will place the children who are selected this week up on the board for tomorrow morning - everyone will get a turn. 

In regards to other items of show and tell we will still happily show any home learning projects, as well as milestones and achievements that the children themselves are proud of and would like to share. because they are just amazing! We will be encouraging all other show and tell material to be kept safe at home.

If you have any questions about this please don't hesitate to come and chat with me. 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Accelerated Reader

Hello everyone,

As mentioned in the parent information session this week, this half term will see the introduction of Accelerated Reader to the year 1 class. This will then be continued for the rest of the year. 

In order to introduce this to the class we will be having a short workshop after school on Tuesday 28th January. During this we will go through how the online system works and supports reading for pleasure. 

If you are unable to make this date, please come and see us. 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - Space

Hello everyone,

I hope the parent information session this morning was useful! If you were unable to attend, the presentation will be shared on Facebook. If you have any questions please feel free to come and chat with us. 

As we are now well and truly in to our topic of space I thought I would share a few links to some of the materials we have been looking at so far! The children have been so enthused by the topic so far and have shown great curiosity; asking questions that the adults have had no idea about! Above is the first ever image taken of a Black Hole - which we have had endless questions about.

So, without further delay, here are the links! 

Chris Hadfield put together a series of really interesting videos from his experiments whilst he was up on the International Space Station - here

NASA has some brilliant pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope as well as a tonne of other media - here

The Science Museum has a wide range of space based things online too - here

And finally, the European Space Agency website has a whole kids area to explore - here

Thank you to the children that have already bought in their Space home learning project! Just to remind everyone it is to investigate a part of our solar system and find out some facts that can be presented in as creative a way as you can conceive! 

Year 1 team

Year 1 - This Weeks Spellings

Hello everyone,

This wee we have switched to one set of spellings for the class. The spellings for this week are listed below - the focus is on the 'igh' sound. 

right

bright

light

night

fright

tight

high

I

by

my

Even if you can manage just one practice a week this could make all the difference. The spelling test will be on the Friday.

Year 1 team