What an amazing start to the school year! It was so lovely to welcome all the children back to school. They have settled in well to the very familiar routines and have been enjoying some new Year One learning.
We have begun our drawing club sessions which promotes writing skills and language acquisition. One of our favourite words to use this week has been the word 'elongated!' You will undoubtedly hear many new and interesting words being used over the coming weeks. It has been such a pleasure to see the children excited about the opportunity to come and write and talk about their learning in drawing club this week.
We have also begun some new learning in our Power Maths sessions. This week we have been working on grouping numbers and counting to ten. The children are building their skills in how to count accurately and grouping numbers to 10 in different ways.
Our topic this term is Our Wonderful World. The children have already learnt the names of the 7 continents (they may have already been singing the 7 continents song to you at home!) and we will be learning some facts about each of the continents over the coming weeks. They have also begun to learn about animal groups: mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, insects and fish.
Amongst all this, they have also been leading their own learning through our play project work. Here the children immerse themselves in 'Busy Time' following their own interests as well as planned for learning opportunities, collecting counters to add to their play project planner over the week.
Our new class ipad arrived at the end of the week so there will lots of photos of the class enjoying our new surroundings next week.
Parent Information Session
I look forward to talking to you about how and what we learn in Year One on Wednesday 14th September at 9am. The session will also be recorded if you are unable to make it.
We also welcomed Ms Browne, Miss McCourt and Mrs Stockman to the Year One Team.
We will see you all again on Monday for another fun-packed week.
Mrs March, Ms Browne, Mrs Rogers, Miss McCourt and Mrs Stockman.
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