Week beginning 13th October 2025

We've reached the end of another busy week in Year 1. This week, we have been learning even more about our senses. The children have been testing their sense of taste by tasting sweet, sour, salty and bitter flavours as well as using their noses to match up smells without using their eyes, what a lot of fun we had! Check out the photos section to see more.

On Monday, we have our individual school photos, please make sure the children come to school in full school uniform (even if they have a club after school) and put on their best smiles ready for the camera!

Worship:

The worship theme this week is: Forgiveness

Learning this week:

English - We will be creating our own fact files about our senses. 

Maths - We will be ordering numbers from smallest to greatest and greatest to smallest. 

Phonics - We will be learning the alternative graphemes and this week it will be the split digraphs i-e and  o-e.

The parent information sheet can be found here: Parent Information Sheet

PSHE- We will continue to look at different families and why our families are important to us.

D&T- We will be making our own healthy fruit smoothies, how exciting!

Whole Class Reading- We will be reading, 'My Hair' by Hannah Lee.

Home Learning:

My Maths, Numbots and Twinkl Phonics App log ins are stuck into the front of your child's Reading Record.  Please speak to your child's teacher if you need any support with any of these platforms.

Additional help with reading/phonics:

If you are wondering how you can provide general support for your child at home, our advice is to hear them read as often as possible. Please do not worry if your child brings home the same book from time to time- this is to gain confidence and fluency before moving onto different sounds in other books.

We also have an excellent link to some high quality texts that you may want to consider when choosing children’s books to read or buy!

Additional Maths:

By the end of Year 1, children are expected to:

• count forwards and backwards in ones to 100
• be able to count in 2s, 5s and 10s
• find one more and one less than a given number up to 100
• recognise the value of all coins
• know number bonds (numbers that add together) to total 10 and 20.

These are excellent skills to be practising at home, although we stress that they will be covered over the course of the school year.

Messages:

It is really important to put children’s names in all their clothes, on packed lunch boxes, water bottles, coats etc- otherwise they do not go home with the correct child. We already have some unclaimed and unnamed items from this week. If you could all check that all items are named, we would really appreciate it. 

Please could water bottles be placed into a plastic bag in their school bag to protect school reading books. All water bottles must only contain water and NOT squash please. 

Please note, our fruit at school is delivered on a Monday, but sometimes later in the day. Please could you provide your child with a snack on a Monday to avoid them getting hungry if our fruit has not been delivered. 

Key Information:

Please wear PE kits on a Thursday

Thank you for your continued support.

Have a brilliant weekend!

Mr Parsons and Mrs Stoodley