Mrs Tebbitt is the teacher on Wednesday Mornings, Thursday and Friday
Mrs Smith is the teacher on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday Afternoons
Teaching Assistants
Mrs Edwards is our Teaching Assistant on Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs Brown is our Teaching Assistant on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They
help support the children during the day.
Reading
We aim to change your child’s reading books once a
week. The children will be given one
reading book and one library book – for ‘reading for pleasure’. Please share these books with your child as
often as you can and record this in the reading record book. We have a reading lesson four times a week
when the children will be doing class and group reading and reading
activities. This is the time when the
teachers will be hearing your child read and assessing their progress. Any time you spend sharing books has a big
impact on your child’s progress. Please
also spend some time practising the sounds and words to read on the card. We also run two reading incentive schemes –
one where the children get a raffle ticket if they read 5 times a week and this
is recorded by you in their reading record books. When the raffle in drawn the children win a
trip to the book shop to choose a book.
We also encourage the children to read the books on our 50 books to read
list which also earns small prizes.
Please hand this in regularly so we can keep up to date with how many
the children have read.
Spelling
The children will have a spelling book in their book bags
with words to learn each week. There is
guidance in the front of the book. We
will be collecting these in on a Thursday and they will be given out with new
words to learn for the next week on a Friday.
Handwriting
During Year 1 the children will begin to learn how to join
letters in a cursive style. We will be writing words in the spelling books
using this style but the children do not need to write using joins straight
away. We want them to become familiar with how the style looks and begin to use
it when they have learnt the correct formation and when they feel ready to do
so. They can still print their words when writing their spellings. A sheet will
be put into the reading folder with the correct formation for each letter.
Phonics
In preparation for the statutory Phonics Screening which
takes place in June, your child will be expected to confidently recognise the
40+ graphemes (written sounds). They will be continuing to learn how to use
these graphemes to blend (for reading) and segment (for spelling).
Maths
Please continue to encourage your child to practise counting
and writing their numbers 0-100.
Children are assessed termly in maths using a mixture of formal and
informal ‘quizzes’. Each term the
children work on Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFS). These are things we expect
the children to learn and more information in on our website.
P.E
We will be having PE on Monday mornings and Tuesday
afternoons. Please make sure all items
of clothing are clearly labelled with your child’s name and include items that
are suitable for outdoor PE during colder weather. Please see the PE letter
sent home. The children will wear PE clothes
to school on a Tuesday.
PE kits need to be returned on Wednesday morning
please. We send PE bags home for the
school holidays.
Wellies
Please send in a named pair of wellies, we will be using
these for outdoor learning and playtimes, if necessary.
Water Bottles
Please ensure your child has a named water bottle in
school. Our school policy is that these
are filled with water. Please make sure
these are returned each day.