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....