Welcome to Year 1
Welcome to Year 1
Summer Term
Our topic short topic for summer is to mark the celebration of Her Majesty The Queen's Platinum Jubilee. We will explore The Royal Family.
- Red reading records and books are to be in school everyday please
- Now that the weather is getting warmer please bring a water bottle to school labelled with your childs name
- Waterbottles to be in everyday
- Our PE days are on Monday and Friday each week
- Please ensure your child has appropriate footwear for PE at the village green, as well as a white t-shirt, black shorts or black jogging bottoms and a black sweatshirt
- Due to our short term in summer 1 we will not have a show and tell timetable
- Important Dates
- Wednesday 25th May - The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations
- Wednesday 25th May - Break up for half term
- Monday 6th June - Children return to school
- Week of the 6th June - Phonics Screening Test
- Thursday 9th June - PTA Quiz at The Little Fox
- Monday 20th June - Class Photographs
- Tuesday 28th June - KS1 Sports Day 1.30 at The Village Green
- Friday 8th July - Reports to Parents
For more information about what the children will be learning about in the different subjects over the Summer Term please click on the document below:
Daily Essentials
Phonics/Reading
- Please read a range of non-fiction and fiction books as well as poems.
- Phase 2, 3 and 5 phonics sound mats and tricky words can be found attached. Please go over these sounds and words daily.
Maths
- We are currently focusing on recognising numbers 1-30.
- Number formation material can also be found attached below for you to practise with your child.
- Counting forwards and backwards from any given number. A good resource to select a given number can be accessed here: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares
- We are learning to counting in 2's, 5's and 10's interactive videos to support learning can be found here;
2's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvTcpfSnOMQ
5's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EemjeA2Djjw&t=3s
10's - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gmEe0-_ex8
English
- Practise writing simple sentences with your child. This can be as simple as what you are going to be doing that day. You can write a sentence from a picture from your favourite book, or any book that you have at home.
- This term we are focusing on capital letter, finger spaces, full stops in the correct place and reading their own work back to check that it makes sense.
- Please practise letter formation with your child. Letter formation sheet can be found attached below.
