Religious Education

We are moving on to a new topic next week which is ‘Change’. We will be thinking about how we are continually growing and changing. During Lent, we are reflecting on the ways in which we can change. We will explore how we can improve and prepare ourselves for the celebration of Easter.

Home learning: Talk with your child about how Lent is a time for us to think of others. How can we change to make us better people?

  Maths

Next week the children will continue to work with numbers to 50. They will be looking at finding one more and one less from numbers to 50. They will also complete an end of unit assessment for their recent learning.

Home Learning: Please continue to practise counting forwards and backwards to 50 with your child.

  English

Next week the children will continue to learn about their new class text; Clean Up By Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola. They will be thinking about the plastic pollution that is shown in the story and be discussing ways in which they can help the environment.

Home Learning: Talk to your child about recycling. What things do they know that we can recycle? Can they think of other ways we can help clean up our world?

If you would like to listen to the story with your child, please click the following link to a video of it being read aloud;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jd7QYeuLis

  Phonics

Next week the children will continue to learn their next set of new Phase 5 sounds. We will carry on recapping recently learnt sounds and the new Phase 5 graphemes will be introduced each day.

Some of the children are continuing to focus on the gaps in their phonic knowledge in order to develop their reading and writing skills appropriately.  They will be practising how to blend sounds that they know in order to read familiar and unfamiliar words.

Please ensure you are reading daily with your child at home, this is very important and can have a huge impact on the development of your child’s reading.

The reading books are matched to the children’s current phonic knowledge and this allows them to apply the sounds that they are learning to their independent reading.

Home Learning: Please look at the video below. This is a guide from Little Wandle that shows you how the children should be pronouncing the sounds they have been taught.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTe5_Em0BHQ

Reminders

• On Thursday morning the Year 1 Classes are going on a local visit to Waterstones in the Whitgift Centre. This is to celebrate and promote reading as part of the recent World Book Day celebrations. The children will be listening to a story by a local author and will have the opportunity to pick up a free book using their book voucher.
• We have recently signed up to new digital software called ‘Purple Mash’ and the children had log ins for this sent home before half term. Each Friday after school, the children will be set an activity to complete each week as part of their homework. The children will have until the following Friday morning to complete the given task on Purple Mash (please continue to ensure you are also reading daily with your child as this plays a crucial part in their reading development which in turn supports their learning across the curriculum). 
• Please note that this half term the swimming rota has swapped and St Therese are now having P.E. and St Bernadette are going swimming.

Swimming and P.E. days for this half-term:

St Bernadette: Swimming on Thursdays         St Therese: P.E. on Thursdays             

Many thanks from the Year 1 Team