Whiteley Year one

  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...

 Friday 20th March Class Performances The children are working hard on their class performances.  If your child has words to read, please can you practise reading them clearly and out loud at home.  If your child is in Class 1J or Class 1B please can they bring some brightly coloured clothes to wear for the performance in a named carrier bag - lots of children have still not brought in clothes to wear.  Your child will be wearing plimsolls or trainers for the performance.  Class 1R will be wearing their performance clothes to school as it is non-uniform day on the day of their performance. Many thanks! Phonics Check Meeting On Wednesday 15th April at 9am Mrs Robinson will be running a meeting to give you information about the National Statutory Phonic screening check that takes place in Year One in June. It would be great if you are able to attend this meeting so you can find out how you can best support your child with their phonics at home. Many thanks! G...

 Friday13th March In English, we have been writing letters from the point of view of a passenger on the Titanic, explaining the sorts of activities we would have liked to do on board ship.  We did a great job of our letters and used time adverbials (such as first, next, after that and finally) and adjectives to extend our ideas. Art We looked carefully at pictures of the Titanic and carefully sketched the ship.  We then mixed colours to paint our pictures. Maths   In Maths this week we have been using equipment such as Numicon and Dienes to make 2 digit numbers.  We practised adding and subtracting ten to 2 digit numbers.  You might like to practise making 2 digit numbers with tens and units using the games below. https://ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball Phonics In Phonics this week we  have continued to revisit our Phase 5 " ue" graphemes to develop our confidence in readi...