Welcome to Year 1
Spring Term Headlines
- Reading books and red reading records are to be in school every day please.
- PE kits are to be in school every day. Our PE lessons this term are on Monday and Wednesday, however these may change on occasions.
- Water bottles will be sent home every Friday.
- Coat/raincoat to be brought into school every day.
Important dates
W/c Mon 9th February- Children’s Mental Health Week
Tues 10th February - Safer Internet Day
Friday 13th February- Break up for Half term
HALF TERM
Mon 23rd February- Children return to school
W/c Mon 2nd March- Book Fair
Thurs 5th March- World Book Day
W/c Mon 9th March- Science Week
Tues 24th March- Parents’ Meetings 3.30 pm – 6.00 pm
Wed 25th March- Parents’ Meetings 3.30 pm – 6.00 pm
Thurs 26th March- Easter Church Service – 9:15 am
Thurs 26th March- Easter Bonnet Parade – 11 am
Fri 27th March- Term ends (INSET Day for staff)
Daily Essentials
Phonics/Reading
- Please read your child's phonics reading book with them each day. Any extra reading you can do with your child at home would be most beneficial. This could include a range of non-fiction and fiction books as well as poems.
- Please practise reading the real and alien word cards your child will come home with.
- Please see a list of Year 1 recommended reads below.
Maths
• We are focusing on number formation and place value within 10.
• Please practise number formation 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-square
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 letters, 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.
You can find out more about our curriculum this Spring term in the Curriculum Information below. There are also some other useful documents to help your child.
