Week beginning 22nd September 2025

Another brilliant week at school for our Year 1's! We have started our new project, 'Friends, Families and Fantastic Bodies'. The children started the week by sharing their family photos. It was lovely to see all the children so engaged with lots of smiley faces and joy at sharing the photos.

Our Year group meeting was on Monday. Please find attached below the powerpoint below.

Attached below is the information sheet for our new project 'Friends, Families and Fantastic Bodies'.

Worship:

The worship theme this week is: New Beginnings 

Learning this week:

English - We will be continuing the story 'Five Minutes Peace' by Jill Murphy. We will begin our talk for writing activities and the children will be writing their own version of the story.

Maths - The children will begin learning strategies to accurately count to 10. They will use manipulatives to help support their learning.

Phonics - Next week, we will begin our first lessons on the new Phonics sounds from level 4. This week, it will be 'oy and 'ay'. The parent information sheet can be found here: Parent Information Sheet 1   Parent Information Sheet 2

Home Learning:

My Maths and Numbots log ins are stuck into the front of your child's Reading Record. We would love to see more children logging into Numbots, it is a great resource and a fun way for your children to build fluency in maths. Please speak to your child's teacher if you need any support with this.

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

Have a brilliant weekend!

Mr Parsons and Mrs Stoodley