Whiteley Year one

 Friday 15th May English In English this week,  we followed instructions to make clay pots which we will plant up with seeds to take home when they have been fired in the kiln. We wrote our own instructions for making our pots using imperative (bossy!) verbs e.g. "get" and "make" and time adverbials e.g. "first", "next" and "after that". Maths In Maths this week we have practised halving groups of objects.  We used bar models and part whole models to record our working. Phonics   In Phonics this week we have been revisiting reading and spelling words with the split digraphs "a_e", "e_e" and "i_e". The National Phonics Screening check is only 2 weeks away now! We are nearly there! Thank you for your work at home with your child in practising reading real and "alien" words.  We are really noticing an increase in the reading confidence of children who are practising these at home.   Please can you co...

  Friday 8th May Phonics The National Phonics Screening check is only 3 weeks away now! We are nearly there! Thank you for your work at home with your child in practising reading real and "alien" words.  We are really noticing an increase in the reading confidence of children who are practising these at home.   Please can you practise reading the real and "alien" words on the orange sheet sent home with your child each week.  Encourage them to draw on the sound buttons, then to carefully say each sound and then to blend the sounds together to read each word.  We have put the sound buttons on the words on one side of the paper so that you know where they need to go!  In the Phonics reading check, the children will be asked to put the sound buttons on each word independently.  Mrs Robinson has made the video below to show you how the sounds are pronounced and blended. This week in Phonics we have revisited alternative graphemes for  "j", these are "...

  Friday 1st May Phonics Thank you for your work at home with your child in practising reading real and "alien" words.  We are really noticing an increase in the confidence of children who are practising these at home. This activity is to support your child in becoming more confident in recalling and then blending the sounds that they have learnt at school so far.  In the week beginning 8th June your child will be doing the Statutory National Phonics screening check which checks their confidence in blending phonic sounds.   Please can you practise reading the real and "alien" words on the orange sheet sent home with your child each week.  Encourage them to draw on the sound buttons, then to carefully say each sound and then to blend the sounds together to read each word.  We have put the sound buttons on the words on one side of the paper so that you know where they need to go!  Mrs Robinson has made the video below to show you how the sounds are prono...

 Friday 24th April This week at school we have been focussing on our R.E. learning.  We learnt about the concept of "Precious".  We discussed things that are precious to us and also precious in our world.  We decided that water is the most precious thing on our planet as nothing can survive without it.  We were visited by Reverend Amy from the Hope Church in Whiteley on Wednesday. She taught us how and why water is precious to Christians and how Christians use water in christenings and baptisms. English In English we thought about words that are used to describe water.  We read pyramid poems and wrote our own.  I n Art, w e made our own collaged water droplets. Geography As part of our learning about the countries that make up the United Kingdom, we learnt about St Georges' Day and how it is celebrated on the 23rd April. Phonics Please look out for the orange sheet in your child's book bag this week.  This is to support your child in becoming more...

 Friday 17th April Welcome back to school, we hope that you had a good break.  This half term at school we will be learning about plants and how they grow.    If you have any flower pots, soil or plants that you could donate, we would be very grateful. In Science this week we learnt about seeds.   We set up an investigation to find out how we could discover which items in our collection were seeds and which were not.  The children suggested planting each object to find out if it would grow. Phonics Please look out for the orange sheet in your child's book bag this week.  This is to support your child in becoming more confident in recalling and then blending the sounds that they have learnt at school so far.  In June your child will be doing the Statutory National Phonics screening check which checks their confidence in blending phonic sounds.  Please can you practise reading the real and "alien" words on the orange sheet with your child....

 Friday 27th March We were so proud of the children in all of their performances.  They did such a great job! Thank you for coming and for supporting the children in learning their words.   Money After half term we will be focussing on money in Maths.  The children usually find it quite hard to learn to identify coins as they don't have so much experience of coins with our ever increasing use of cards! Over Easter please can you give your child opportunities to handle coins.  Can they identify the values of each coin? Can you play shops and use coins to pay for objects. Try lining the coins up in order of value or sorting coins into groups so all of the 2p coins are together for example.  Thank you! R.E. This week at school we have been learning how and why Christians celebrate Easter.  We started from the point of view of the children.  We introduced the concept of "sadness turning into happiness".   The children discussed times wh...