Religious Education

This week the children started their ‘Neighbours’ topic. Next week we will be thinking about our global neighbours around the world and how we can be good neighbours.

Home learning: Ask your child who their global neighbours are. In what ways can we be a good global neighbour?

  Maths

Next week the children will be completing their learning on place value to 100. They will be comparing numbers up to 100.

Home Learning:  Give your child two numbers no bigger than 100. Ask them to compare them and say which is the larger/smaller number.

 English

The children have enjoyed having a gadabout this week while thinking about their class text! They will be creating story maps and retelling the story next week.

Home Learning: Please ask your children to continue practising the Year 1 Common Exception words that were sent home at the last Parent’s Evening. It is important that children can read and spell these words as they get ready to move into Year 2 in September.

Here is a link to the new class story being read on Youtube:

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

    Phonics

Now that the screening check is complete the children will continue to learn new sounds that are not featured on the check but are still required to support accurate reading and writing.

Some of the children will be 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. Once these gaps have been filled they will move on to the Phase 5 sounds.

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

• We are continuing to use digital software called ‘Purple Mash’ for the children to access their homework. This is available from Friday after school and the children 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. 

• On Wednesday 2^nd July it is St Therese’s Class Assembly. This will start at 9:15am in the hall. All are welcome to attend.

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