Welcome to Year 1!

Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely break and are all refreshed and ready for another half term. 

We will be starting off the term focusing on Sally Ride as part of our LGBT+ work then will be moving on to using The Naughty Bus as our focus text in English. We will adapt and innoavate this text as we become authors and write our own stories! We are still focusing on writing in full setences and making sure that we are using our phonics skills in our every day writing. We will also be using adjectives and conjunctions as we try to make our writing interesting and exciting for others to read. Phonics will be taught every morning and your child will read at least twice a week in school. Please try to read at least 4 times a week with your child at home and record this in their planner. 

In Maths we will begin by continuing our work on addition and subtraction before moving back on to place value, but this time we'll be looking at numbers up to 50! We'll also be carrying on our unit on shape, then we we start looking at our first measure unit which focuses on length and height. 

To find out more about our learning this term, please see our Spring Term newsletter at the bottom of this page.

PE will take place on Wednesday and Friday and it is essential that you children bring their PE kit to school on these days. No jewellery is permitted in PE sessions and earrings must be removed.  If your child cannot remove their own earrings, they must be removed prior to coming to school.  Children will need their full PE kit which includes a yellow James Brindley logo tshirt, blue shorts and black pumps. Please ensure that your child's names is in all of their items of clothing. 

We are very much looking forward to the year ahead and working with your children. Please feel free to contact us at any time should you have any queries or questions. 

Best wishes, Mrs Sharrock and The Year 1 Team