September 22, 2023

What a wet week! 

by Mrs Ford

Gosh the rain just keeps on coming doesn’t it! Why is it always at school pick up time? Autumn has certainly arrived! Thank you to all the parents that came to our Year 1 parent’s meetings this week and we hope you found them helpful. If you have any questions, please come and speak to us!  

This week in English, we started off the week with news writing. We focussed on full stops, capital letters and fingers spaces to make our writing as good as we can! We have also been reading the book Oi Frog! By Kes Gray. We have been finding, matching and generating rhyming words and using our rhyming words to write full sentences. Next week, we will continue to look at rhyming words and sentences whilst reading the books Oi Cat! And Oi Dog! By Kes Gray.  

This week in maths, we have been focusing on the number 6. We have looked at different ways to make the number 6, discussing how the number can be split into different parts. For example 1 and 5, 2 and 4, 3 and 3 etc. and shown different ways to record this such as cherry diagrams. Next week, we will be focussing on the number 7. We will be using coins to show different combinations of how to make 7p. We will also be introducing tens frames to the children and use objects to split 7 into 2 parts. A busy week ahead! 

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: 

4th October – Harvest Festival (details to follow) 

17th October – Virtual Parents Evening 3.30-6.30pm 

18th October – Virtual Parents Evening 5-7pm 

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.