The children are enjoying their P.E. topic and are working hard in their teams to complete their challenges.

The children had a fantastic time on their trip yesterday and their behaviour was excellent. Next week the children will be writing a recount based on their experience and using their newfound animal knowledge after half term with their ‘Animal’ science topic. Thank you to all the staff and parents who accompanied KS1 on their trip as it would not be possible without you all!

 

 

Please continue to read with your child daily and comment in the reading record about anything they found challenging or any sounds they were unsure about. Reading books will only be changed when the child is reading the book fluently. Your comments support us in making that decision to change books or if they need to read it again. Please remember to have reading folders in daily. Thank you for your continued support.

Children are invited to bring in a small cuddly toy and a small treat for snack on Monday 17^th October to enjoy at our cuddly toy tea party to celebrate our English learning on ‘Plenty of Love to go around’. Please make sure it is not their favourite toy as they will be staying in school all week so the children can use them in their History topic ‘Toys’ too and then they will go home for half term.

Well done on another fantastic learning week Year 1 and I will see you all on Monday,

Miss Lambie

Home learning – last home learning as none will be set for half term so this one can go over the two weeks.

• Phase 4 snakes and ladders and maze has been sent home for consolidation of the learning this week; there is no need to hand this back to me as it is additional support for home. It can be challenging to hear the clusters in some of the words and they are being spelt and read incorrectly e.g. wet instead of went and jumt instead of jump.
• Tricky words we focused on this week: have, like, some, come, (phase 4) was, you (revised phase 3).
• Mathletics has been set but you also have free access to all games and challenges within it.
• Spelling Shed Phase 3 revision has been set and you also have free access to other games and sounds. I have emailed Spelling Shed about some of the queries and challenges some of you have mentioned this week but unfortunately I can not fix them myself.
• As always, daily reading and revising phonic sounds. Please continue to use the ‘spelling strategies’ sheets that I sent home for additional support the second week. I will work on making some templates for the games that you may wish to use.
• See last week’s blog for additional home learning links to further support Year 1. These have been added to the Year 1 webpage too.

Thank you to Year 6 who led us in a wonderful assembly today explaining The Rosary to us all. Year 1 will be praying the decades next week and throughout the month of October.

In Religion Year 1 have been exploring their topic ‘In the Beginning’ further by learning about the creation stories from Genesis. They worked hard to represent what they understood from the stories.

We have nearly finished our maths topic about represent numbers and will be moving on to addition and subtraction within ten. Please find a Mathletics account login in the reading folder. You can use this to access any Mathletics games and the one that have been set by me.

Apparently I set ‘ng’ on Spelling Shed for the whole school last week! Well done to those Year 1 children who completed the games and the rest of the school! I have tried again today and I think I have managed to set ‘ear’ for Phase 3 revision for just Year 1 this time! I have also snuck a Phase 4 sheet and spelling strategies in their reading folders for additional support.

We have started to change reading books so please continue to have reading folders in daily. Please comment in the reading record every time you read with your child as this supports our decision in changing books.

Enjoy your weekend and I will see you all on Monday,

Miss Lambie

Week 2 w/b 12.09.2022

What a week for our school! Thank you for all your support and encouragement; it really kept us going! I am so proud Year 1 for their learning and behaviour this week. It feels like I have been their teacher for more than just two weeks already! They were calm, considerate and shared such wonderful questions about their learning. I am looking forward to teaching them for the rest of this year and working with you to support them the best we can.

Thank you to those who attended meet the teacher meeting this afternoon and I will upload the Power Point to the Year 1 page for you to refer too. Remember to please come and ask me any questions you may have and I will send home the letter formation rhymes with the reading books next week.

I wish you a restful weekend and please stay safe if you are travelling to London. Year 1 will reflect on the life of our The Queen when we return to school on Tuesday,

Miss Lambie

Science- Humans and Animals
Our experiment this week:

Do you think the tallest child has the largest feet?

Well, this was a fun experiment, if not a little smelly! Year 1 made their prediction, discussed the best way to find out the answer and got to work! We came up with lots of ways to ensure it was a fair test and measured everyone’s height and feet just to be sure. Our results were different from the prediction majority! Our tallest child did not have the largest feet!

What a fantastic week for our last week.

Year 1 tried hard to keep cool in the heat.

I would like to thank Year 1 and their families for making my first year at Pope Paul so enjoyable. You have showed me great kindness and support throughout the year and I will miss you all but look forward to seeing you again in September.

Thank you for all the generous gifts; I will need another car to fit them all in!

 

The children have been amazing and it’s been wonderful to see them grow throughout the year.

 

The Year 1 team would like to wish you all safe and happy summer holiday and look forward to your return in September.

 

Many thanks again,

and for the last time,

Miss Lambie and team x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

In R.E. Year 1 acted out the story of The Good Samaritan and tried hard to understand the message Jesus gave when he told it. They then tried hard to re-tell the story in their own words.

Year 1 have moved onto whole class reading sessions in preparation for Year 2 and have really enjoyed exploring ‘The Gingerbread Bread Man’ especially when they ate him at the end!

The children enjoyed learning about wild and common plants in Science this week; they made fantastic investigators and identified many plants.

 

 

 

They used all the fallen leaves and petals to create a perfume station so they didn’t go to waste and of course the snails got involved too…

In maths the children are beginning to learn o’clock and half past times. Please use Mathletics to support this learning further.

Please see the Phonics home learning pack in their bags for the sounds learnt this week; they’re getting trickier and trickier but they are all doing so well!

P.E. kits for Monday (P.E. Tennis) and Tuesday (seaside) next week.

 

Reading books and reading records will be collected in from Monday 11th July and guided reading extracts will be sent home instead. This will enable us to gather the reading assessments and records to pass on to Year  2.  Year 1 will continue with their daily class guided reading sessions until the last week of school rather than individual readers.

Enjoy the hot weekend,

Miss Lambie

 

Seaside trip for Tuesday

• leaving school at 9am and expect to return to school at 3.15pm.
• Please give consent and payment via schoolcomms.
• The children will need to bring a packed lunch – no glass bottles or fizzy drinks, and no nuts please.
• Children should wear their School PE kit.
• Please put their lunch, a small hand towel and hat in a small backpack/rucksack that they can carry themselves.
• The weather will be hot so please don’t forget to apply sunscreen before they leave home.