Welcome to Year 1

		Mrs Fisher 1FR (Mon-Tues)	Mrs Richardson 1FR (Wed-Fri)	Mrs Bellman 1BP (Mon-Tues)	Mrs Perry 1BP (Wed-Fri)	Mrs Horler  1FR Teaching Assistant	Mrs Harris 1BP Teaching Assistant

English

Our English unit of work this half term is based on writing a defeating the monster story with action. Our focus text is 'Supertato' by Paul Linnet and Sue Hendra.

Please reinforce our Year 1 non-negotiables for writing at home. These are:

• Using our cursive handwriting, forming our letters correctly.
• Sitting our letters on the line and ensuring ascending (tall) and descending (long) letters reach high/low enough. 
• Putting finger spaces in between words.
• Using capital letters at the beginning of each sentence and for proper nouns.
• Using full stops at the end of sentences.

Phonics

Your child will take part in phonics lessons daily which will support their reading and writing.  The reading scheme is in line with the phonics phases to give your child practise of the sounds they are learning and linked tricky words.  To support your child's phonic development please refer to the back on the Songbirds book for the focus sounds.  The books have prompts to support parents in their child's phonic and reading development (they can be found on the reserve of the cover). 

Reading

Please continue to read with your child as often as possible.  Books will be changed Monday and Thursday which will allow us to put books into quarantine for 48 hours (in line with government guidelines).  We will assess your child's reading termly throughout the year to ensure they are progressing as we would expect.  

When reading with your child please refer to the prompt sheets in your child's reading record.  Spend time looking at the pictures in the book with your child, can they predict the story?  Depending on your child's enjoyment of reading you may wish to read the book to them first, share the book page by page or let your child read the whole book to you.  You will have the book at home for several evenings, please read the book at least twice with your child.  Reading the same book several times allows work on fluency and expression alongside the skills of decoding and comprehension. 

Reading Home Learning:

www.oxfordowl.co.uk - Free eBook library when you create a username and password.

Mathematics

We use White Rose Maths as the basis of all our Maths planning at Park Mead. 

This half term our unit focus is 'Multiplication and Division' and 'Number Fractions'.  Don't forget your children have Times Table Rockstar logins and can use this to consolidate their learning in school.  The ethos of White Rose is to ensure your child has a secure understanding of the basic number system, that can then be transferred to larger numbers.   

Topic:

Our topic this term is 'Minibeasts'  We will be identifying animals in their habitats and collecting data in simple tables so that we can make comparisons.

Websites and Activities: 

Maths Websites:

https://whiterosemaths.com

https://ttrockstars.com/ - Your child will have brought home a log in for this website - it is learning times tables so please use with caution as it will be tricky. 

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/kids-activities/fun-maths-games-and-activities/ 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/topics/numeracy 

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/ 

Phonics Websites:

https://www.youtube.com/user/breakthruchris  - Mr Thorne Network - Mr Thorne teaches the sounds with the help of Geraldine the Giraffe.

https://www.readwithphonics.com/ - Interactive games for all phases of phonics.

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/ - Phonic games linked to all phases to reinforce learning.

http://www.ictgames.com/ - Interactive games for phonics and reading.

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/ - Link the children's learning to the correct phase and play the games to reinforce the sounds.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/kids-activities/ - Various games and activities. 

Reading Websites:

www.oxfordowl.co.uk - Free eBook library when you create a username and password.

Foundation Subjects Websites:

https://www.youtube.com/bluepeter - Blue Peter on demand. 

www.cosmickids.com -

Please do try to read with your child as much as possible - sharing stories is equally as important as accessing school reading scheme texts. 

To access Reading Cloud, click here.        

Pie Corbett is the creator of the Talk4Writing scheme of work we follow in English. Here you will find suggestions for key books for each year group and activities linked to them: 

Pie Corbett's Reading Spine