Food, faith and farming fornight!

Hi everyone! 

Today has been the start of our food, faith and farming fortnight! I hope you all got to see the tractor outside of the school today!!

I want to firstly update you on the last week in Year 1 and then a couple of notices about the coming fortnight. 

Again, we have had a super busy week in Year 1 and all children have just BLOWN me away. Every week I am getting to know your children more and we are now feeling like a tight knit Year 1 POW family. We have been continuing to look at our numbers to 10 and have started to compare numbers and groups of objects. We have put our explorer hats on and accessed the Forest School area. There were lots of fairies and even dinosaur bones found! 

In PE we have been exploring different movements and how our bodies can adjust/move to help us. The children are continuing to enjoy music with Mrs Bishop and have been using a range of instruments. We have also learnt how to log into the chromebooks and access purple mash. We have been continuing to focus on our handwriting! 

We also had a great surprise as we were able to take part in an African dance workshop with a special visitor! Your children really do have the moves!!

Now for a few notices;

- We are off to Maiden Castle Farm tomorrow so please can you ensure all children have suitable footwear (I know most of your children have wellies in school) and suitable coats as it is meant to rain! If you want children to wear different trousers, this is fine, however they must wear their POW tops.

- Thank you to those who sent the home learning books in today. Coming home with the children is this week's task which focuses on numbers to 10. Please can these books come back in on Thursday or Friday at the latest.

- RWI books are also due in on Friday. We have had some children not bringing these back and it's really important that they do. If you have any at home please can you send them in with your children tomorrow. 

- We are learning songs for the Harvest Festival - words will be coming home if you could look at these with your children and access the song on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6xWL6srtY 

- All children also came home with their RWI sounds on Friday. Please practice these as much as possible at home to support learning in the classroom.

Thank you once again for all your amazing continued support!

Miss White and the Year 1 Team x