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St Mary's Catholic Primary Schools Trust

Year 1

 7th February 2025

Dear Parents / Carers,

This week the children have enjoyed learning about doubles in maths. They have also been sharing their own stories about special meal times they have had as part of our new RE topic.

 

Our Celebration Assembly

Our Stars of the Week are: Teresa in St Bernadette Class and Chukwuka in St Therese Class.

 Our awards for St Mary’s Way go to: Amariah in St Bernadette Class and Kai in St Therese Class    

                                                                            

Religious Education

Next week the children will be continuing to learn about special meals. They will build on their understanding about what happens in Mass and finding out about the events of The Last Supper.

Home learning: Ask your child if they can remember the order of the Mass. What things does the priest have to do? What stories might they hear?

 

 Maths

Next week the children will be moving on to subtraction within 20. The children will be using facts they know about numbers to 20 to help them as well as the concrete resources to find answers.

Home Learning: Please continue to practise number bonds to 10 and 20 with your child. These skills are crucial to their maths learning and help the children to work out answers quickly.

English

Next week the children will learn more about the story ‘Major Glad, Major Dizzy’. This story introduces them to two old toys who are lost under the floorboards in a house. They will be thinking about old toys and how things have changed over time. We will be writing a short explanation piece about how to play an old game.

 

Home Learning: Talk to your child about the toys you had when you were a child. What is the same now and what has changed? Ask the children which toys they would prefer, ones from long ago or ones they have now?

 

 

                  Phonics

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

Some of the children will continue 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

  • Next week on Wednesday 12th February we are very excited to be going on our visit to the London Eye! Please make sure your child is in school uniform, has a coat, a backpack and suitable footwear. We will be leaving school promptly after the register has been taken so please ensure that your child is at school on time as we are unable to wait for any late arrivals.
  • Parents who have been randomly selected to accompany us on this visit have been informed and therefore if you have not been spoken to by Miss Garner or Miss Malone then we do not require your help on this occasion but thank you very much for offering your support.

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

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

Many thanks from the Year 1 Team