Year 1 Weekly Update – Wk 5
Monday 21st September– World Peace Day. This is a dress casual day, so the children can wear bright rainbow colours.
Friday 25th September – BHS CPD Day – School closed
Monday 28th September – Public Holiday – School closed
Wednesday 30th September – Community Chest Dress Casual Day
Thursday 1st October – Public Holiday – School Closed
Friday 2nd October – ESF CPD Day – School closed
Tuesday 6th and Thursday 8th October – Parent Consultations. Sign up available on the Gateway for sibling parents only.
We have had a great week in Year One. The children are becoming more confident and the routines and expectations are becoming more natural.
We have enjoyed continuing to learn about the number system and the numbers in our lives, about emotions and being caring and continuing to read, write and use phonics in our lessons.
The children saw their first class assembly this morning. It was a very exciting display showing 5P’s understanding of being mindful. We hope the children can tell you a little about what they learned.
The English team are running two home reading workshops this Tuesday. The afternoon session is for helpers and the evening session is for parents. Please make sure the person who reads with your child comes to the reading workshop this Tuesday. We believe it will be a valuable time for you to find out more about some of the best ways to practise reading at home and get ideas to help your child.
Thanks to everyone who came to the bowling event last week. We hope you had a wonderful time and you and your child met some great new friends. It was lovely to see you all and all the bowling talent in our community! We hope you will be able to meet up and try bowling or another activity together again soon.
Who We Are
Central Idea: People have characteristics, abilities and interests that form who they are.
The children are showing a greater understanding of the similarities and differences between all of us and that when they recognise that it is okay that we are all different they are being open-minded. We will especially be looking at emotions and that we all feel all the different emotions at different times.
Central Idea: Numbers are a naming system
The children will continue to work towards understanding this central idea. We will connect number names and numerals to the quantities they represent to the number that they can work with. We will be count on and back, moving from any starting point and focus on the language “one more” and “one less”. As well as ordering ordinal numbers in a sequence of one (ordinal: first, second, third).
We always teach this with a hands on approach, which means that the children learn by doing and exploring different ideas. Rather than being told the answers, we encourage them to find the answers out themselves.
We are also focussing on measuring and to tie this in with our unit of inquiry we will be comparing hand and feet measurements.
We will be continuing to use these phonemes to read and spell words. At home you could look for these sounds in your home reader book and also see how many words they can write/tell you using these sounds. If your child is struggling to read any of these sounds, don’t worry! but practising regularly at home as well as at school to recognise them will help and they will learn them in their own time.
1G – Steven Au
1F – Tanay Hemnani
1H – Claudia Lee
In the shared area between the classrooms the children have had opportunities to play together in our role-play cafe and try out painting independently. Please help your child to think of their experiences at a cafe. What did they choose to eat? How did they order? Who did they chat with and what might they have said. If you have a play date this week you might suggest running a pretend cafe at home, don’t be shy to get involved yourself, modelling ideas of what to say or do helps your child get ideas? Role play is an excellent activity to improve language and confidence. Talking these ideas through gives children ideas to have more meaningful conversations when role-playing in the cafe and prepares them to use the expected language when the opportunity comes up at school.
Thank you for all the new attachments on the children’s book bag, they are much easier to find now. Please can you make sure that your book bag has a keychain or ribbon on it and that it comes to school everyday.
Enjoy your weekend!
