YR1 - Parent Consultations

As some of you may have seen, Year 1 parent consultations this year were set up earlier than usual; this was because Mrs Thorpe had to leave for maternity leave. A second day is being offered on Tuesday 21st February for those parents who did not see Mrs Thorpe and myself.

 Priority will be given to see all parents once during these two occasions.

(Please speak to me if you have signed up, but did see Mrs Thorpe a few weeks ago).

 

Please speak to Mrs Mewett if you have any further queries.

Miss Kinkead


 

YR 1 This weeks learning

 

 

As mentioned this week in Literacy we are utilising our International Space Station role play area. All the children will have the chance to be a character in space and then write in role. They will be doing a variety of activities based on Neil Armstrong and Christopher Columbus and this will be added to their fact files.

 In Design and Technology we are going to be making International Space Stations, so if you have any more kitchen roll tubes, keep bringing them in! Thanks again to everyone who has been.

 

In Maths this week, we are concentrating on measure. The children will be exploring language related to measure (long/short etc) and estimating lengths. Please encourage them to estimate lengths of objects at home or to measure the length of objects using their hands. We will move into using rulers (cm/mm) next week.

 It was a pleasure last week teaching your children, I am sure this week will be just good!

YR 1 Praise Assembly

 

 

Huge congratulations to those who were praised in Praise Assembly today!

Joey and Caitlin were praised for their excellent progress in Phonics! Jason and Beau were praised for their contribution to our Music lessons – they are always heard! Alyce and Emilie were praised for doing such amazing home learning! They wrote so many sentences with their spellings in! Well done. Daphne was praised for her number recognition! She did some exciting work this week sorting numbers and has really progressed. Harlen and Bella were both praised for their writing this week about our space topic! Harlen has tried so hard this week and has done a lot of independent work! Bella has also done very well and wrote instructions for a space sandwich.

YR 1 International Space Station

Afternoon all.

 

Yesterday some of your children got to go to space in our International Space Station!

 In choosing time six children (who were particular well behaved yesterday) were picked to be the first to go to space! On Friday twelve more children will have the opportunity to go! Please encourage your children to continue space role play at home as they will be doing this next week in Literacy and then writing in role.

YR1 23.01.17 Week Ahead

 

Firstly I would like to say how excited and pleased I am to be teaching your children. As you have probably realised Mrs Thorpe and I have been working very hard to ensure a smooth transition, so the children’s learning and routine will not be disturbed. I am looking forward to getting to know you all and to support your children’s progress.

This week the children will continue with their space topic in Literacy. We will be concentrating on food and how to cook in space. They will add this to their fact files. We have turned the quiet room into the International Space Station and will reveal this to the children this week! If you have anything related to space at home that you would be happy to donate to this role play area we would be very grateful. Thank you to those who have already brought in their kitchen towel tubes (not toilet roll) but we still need more, so please keep bringing them in.

In Maths we are moving away from time and concentrating on number for a week. The children’s main learning objectives are to start counting in 2,5,10s and to plot numbers on a number line. As the week progresses, feel free to draw number lines and encourage your children to plot number on them or to simply ask your children to sort objects into 2,5,10s! If you would like any further ideas I am happy to help.

Finally, a congratulations is in order as all your children did very well in their spellings on Friday (or their phonics), so we are hoping for a similar result this week. Please make sure you keep your children practising and encourage them to write sentences using their spellings to consolidate their learning – it really does help!

Additionally, congratulations to Isla, Ella, Oscar, Sam, Stephen, Indi-Rose, Samantha and Kurtis who were praised on Friday in Praise Assembly for their neat handwriting! Well done!

 

Miss Kinkead

Nature club

Well, Year 1 Nature club has started superbly well!


We have spent time in the garden identifying garden birds and other wildlife we would like to attract. We have also started to learn names of trees in our school grounds and discussing the season of winter.
We made bird feeders this week out of oranges and string and we have hung these up within the garden area. The birds are thoroughly enjoying our looking after them as all bird feed from the pervious week had gone! Spotted using our feeders were robins, blue tits and of course the two squirrels that have their home in our garden!
Harlan came up with the idea of a bird hotel - to select a tree and make it a nice place for birds to visit so this is our next goal as well as repairing the bug hotel. E.g. mobiles, food, safe places like boxes, toys have all been thought about!
Lastly, if you do have materials you wish to send in to add to our club from bird feed fat balls to hanging bird decorations, we would most welcome any offerings!

Thank you

Mrs Mewett
 

Y1 Goodbye from Mrs Thorpe!

I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone today for giving me a lovely last day. The children enjoyed the afternoon that was filled with fun, games, ice cream and even a piñata (Thanks to Mr + Mrs Scott).

Thank you very much for your kind words, cards and gifts. I will keep in touch and be in to visit!

Mrs Thorpe