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Welcome to Year 1

Beech Class

Mrs Stewart

Mrs Crawford & Mrs Swindells

Welcome to Beech class!

Our text this term will be "The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth" linked to our History and Geography topics this term. We will also link our art and design technology to this historical event.

Our writing and topic work will be focused around a different text called 'The Lion Inside'. We will be working on improving the use of 'and' in sentences as well as looking at interesting vocabulary and correct punctuation. We will also be focusing on using pre-cursive handwriting in all writing books.  

Maths and science having a discrete focus. We hope to share lots of the children's work on this page and our Twitter page so keeping coming back to check of our progress. 

This is term we will be changing our phonics scheme to Read Write Inc which will hopefully have a fantastic impact on the progress of our children’s reading. We are super happy with the fantastic progress we have already made in Ash class and I hope this will continue into the new year. We would appreciate continuous support with lots of reading at home and encouragement to practise the phonics they will have been learning each week. 

Reading

Please ensure that your child brings their reading book, along with their reading diary, into school everyday. We will read with your child once a week. During this one to one reading time your child will have the opportunity to change their reading book for a new one. Please support and consolidate your child's learning by reading with them as often as possible at home ..... every little helps!

PE

PE is every Thursday but please make sure your child has their PE kit in school every day as, on occasions, we have extra PE/sport sessions during the week.

Milk

Please pay for milk using the online "cool milk" service (www.coolmilk.com).

Homework

Homework is set on Friday and is due back in school the following Tuesday. All homework set will be linked to the to the books that we will be reading in our AOL lessons. As you are now aware, we are sending extra homework home focused on letter formation and maths. Please give this ago with your child as we are already seeing improvements in their work in school - keep it up!

Spellings

Spellings will now be included within Read Write Inc lessons so there will be no more spellings sent home on a Friday. For more information please see the RWI powerpoint below :) 

Please also see our pre-cursive handwriting below too! It would really help if you could encourage to write this way at home and remember to enter up! 

Thank you for everyone who has volunteered so far to read with Year 1 it has had a huge improvement on reading!
Do you have an hour to spare?! We are always looking for parents/carers/grandparents to help with hearing children read. If you are able to spare any time whether it be a morning, afternoon or just an hour, please get in touch via the school office or one of the adults in Year 1.

Please return consent forms if you haven't done so already so that we are able to put some lovely pictures of Beech Class on our class page :)