A change in the weather! 

Just a final reminder that if you haven’t already done so, the appointments are now open to book a parents evening slot to speak with your child’s teacher and see how they are settling into Year 1. Tuesday’s is face to face in the hall and Wednesday’s is online. Mrs Jamfrey will also be available to talk to during the face to face appointments. 

This week in English, we have been focussing on the book ‘Each Peach Pear Plum’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. We have been exploring the nursery rhymes and fairy tales found in the book to help us identify and label the characters. We have also been using prepositions to describe where the characters are hiding. Next week, we will continue our learning about fairy tales and focus on the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. We will sequence the events of the story in the correct order and then write sentences to retell the story using time connectives. We will also be identifying verbs and how the -ed suffix changes the tense of a word to past tense.  

This week in maths, we have been focussing on the number 9. We have again been using coins to show different combinations of how to make 9p. We will also be using objects to split 9 into 2 parts and introducing a new method called a bar model. This is hard to explain but it’s a great pictorial representation of a number where bars are used to represent the different quantities. This helps the children visually see the whole number at the top and the two parts below. If you’re not sure what I mean, please ask your class teacher for some clarity. Next week, we will be carrying on a similar process but focussing on the number 10. We will also start learning about our number bonds to 10. 

Just a few reminders:  

• Please make sure all your child’s belongings are labelled. Things do go missing and I’m convinced there is a black hole somewhere in the school that sucks them in and they never come back.  
• Please send your child’s water bottle and book bag into school every day. 
• Our Year 1 PE day is on a Monday. 
• Reading books in school are changed once a week and this will be every Monday. The books will be collected in in the morning and a new one will be issued that same afternoon. 

Dates: 

17th October – Face to Face Parents Evening 3.30-6.30pm 

18th October – Virtual Parents Evening 4-7pm 

23rd – 27th October – Half Term 

30th October – Inset Day 

21st November – Phylis Tuckwell Assembly  

22nd November – Fleet Festivities  

29th November – Nasal Flu (details to follow) 

5th December – Bumblebee Christmas Play AM 

6th December – Hedgehog Christmas Play PM 

12th December – Christmas Lunch 

13th December – Elf Run 

15th December – Last Day of Term 

Have a lovely weekend, see you next week! 

Mrs Ford and the Year 1 team.