Thank you to all those who attended the phonics meeting.  We are very grateful to have such supportive parents!

We hope the session was informative and you were able to take some ideas for teaching phonics.

Some of you were asking how to ensure children write correctly at home.  This chart may be of some use to you to see the developmental stages.  Generally, our children are working between stages 9 and 12, but of course there are some working beyond and some working towards this.  Please feel free to speak to your child’s teacher to have a look at their writing so far for further support.

Below is a link to the presentation shared with you today.  I have updated this to include the information on apps, games and videos that may be of use to you at home.

Again, we thank you for all the support you have given so far and we look forward to working with you more closely as your children become even brainier!!

Miss K Gill

Presentation to Parents

Hello mums, dads and carers!

We are working really hard to count on and back from any number up to and across 50.  It is our goal by Christmas to have every child able to start at a given number e.g 34 and to tell us what the numbers after and the numbers before are.

Please help us by practising this skill- particularly finding the numbers before and helping your children to understand that counting back means finding less as well!

This week, two of our friends have been showing kindness during lunchtimes!

As we know, it can often be hard for children to find a friend to play with and even harder to offer to approach another person to let them know your needs.

Fortunately, we have a girl in Year 1 who is brave enough to ask a friend to help her and we have a girl who is kind enough to offer that help.

Well done girls- your picture is now on our British Values board in the Heart Space area!

We are getting to know lots about your children as they settle into classes.  We thought we would tell you a little bit about us!

Miss Gill is the Key Stage 1 phase leader and Year 1 class teacher for Chestnut Class.   Literacy lessons are her favourite thing to teach, especially when the children begin to write exciting stories with characters and interesting events!  She loves chocolate, musicals and pyjamas!  Miss Gill is always singing and loves her kitten, Cleo and 4 year old niece.

Miss Gill is getting married in October and from the 31st October will be known as Mrs Toms- how exciting!

Miss Munro is the Year 1 class teacher for Birch Class.  Her favourite thing to teach is also Literacy, especially when children become confident writers and show independent skills.   She loves singing, music and musicals and runs the choir alongside Miss Gill every Wednesday.  She gets excited when the children are invited to sing at music festivals.  Miss Munro also loves kittens and cannot wait to get her own.

When Miss Munro is not at work she loves going to Italian restaurants and watching movies at the cinema.

We are so impressed with the maths skills your children already know.

We have been counting objects, finding 1 more and 1 less than a number up to and beyond 20, writing numbers with correct formation and writing numbers in sequences.

If you would like to practise more number writing at home to ensure all numbers are formed correctly, sign up to a Twinkl account for free to print lots of number and maths worksheets! http://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-n-121-number-formation-workbook

Here are some photos of maths from the last week!

Well done children!!

Miss Gill & Miss Munro

Welcome to the Year 1 blog.  We will be continuing the lovely work that the reception teachers posted for you to show you their learning journey.

We have been busy learning all about ourselves. Some activities  include…

• Writing about our likes and dislikes
• Tasting different foods
• Drawing around our bodies and labelling them
• Using a mirror to draw our portraits
• Using morfo booth to change our faces

Here are some photos of all the fun we have had!