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Weekly Note – w/c 26.3.18

It’s a short week this week! Please remember that school finishes at 1pm on Wednesday 28th March. Children will not need lunch on this day but may bring an extra snack to keep them going.

Spring Fayre

The Spring Fayre will be taking place on Tuesday 27th March. Year 6 will create a multitude of fun activities and stalls to raise money for their summer camp in July.

We would very much appreciate donations of used books and toys for the sale (these can be brought in and left by the swimming pool) as well as cake donations on Tuesday morning.

Infant children can be collected from classes from 2pm onwards. Juniors can be collected from 2.30pm.

We hope you have an enjoyable holiday and look forward to seeing the children back on Thursday 11th April.

Swimming

Swimming will begin again after the holidays but not until the second week. Swimming will take place on the following days, if you are able to help, please let your child’s teacher know. Thank you

Mrs Bramley’s Class – Tuesday    9 – 10.20am

Miss Horsepool’s Class  – Thursday   9 – 10.40am

Mrs Boscher’s Class – Friday   9 – 10.20am

The Year 1 Team

 

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Weekly note (w.b. 19th March)

Dear parents/carers

 

Maths

We shall be continuing to work on money. The children will be applying their understanding of money by solving problems.

 

Literacy

We shall be continuing our work on the story ‘Book of Butterflies.’ The children will be using their own ideas to innovate the story, choosing their own animal and describing words, for example they might write the story ‘The book of spiders.’

 

Reading Information Evening – Monday 19th March

We look forward to seeing lots of you for the information evening on Monday night at 7pm in the school hall. Our Literacy Intervention Teacher, Kelly Child will be leading the session and will outline useful strategies and activities you can do at home with your child.

 

Easter Service

On Wednesday the children will be watching the Year 4 Easter service in the hall.

 

Photographs

Next Tuesday 20th March we shall be having a whole school photograph. Next Thursday we shall be having class photographs taken.

 

Spring Fayre

The Spring Fayre will be taking place on Tuesday 27th March. Year 6 will create a multitude of fun activities and stalls to raise money for their summer camp in July.

We would very much appreciate donations of used books and toys for the sale (these can be brought in next week and left by the swimming pool) as well as cake donations on Tuesday morning.

Infant children can be collected from classes from 2pm onwards. Juniors can be collected from 2.30pm.

 

Best wishes

Year 1 team

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Weekly Note – w/c 12.3.18

In our literacy lessons next week we will be doing some work using a short video called ‘Book of Butterflies’ as a stimulus. Children will be thinking about how they can improve sentences by adding describing (Wow) words and will have a go at innovating the story to make it their own.

In maths we will be continuing to work on Rainbow Targets as well as continuing to do some work on money including finding change and word problems.

Rainbow Targets

We will be continuing to work on doubles and halves Rainbow Targets for a few weeks after the Easter holidays. Some children have now moved on from doubles to halves and due to this half term being very short (and now even shorter due to the snow!) we would like to give more children the opportunity to have a go a halves. We will then move onto addition and subtraction targets later on in the summer term.

Teach your Child to Read Evening

Helping your child learn to read at home is a key way to support their learning. Literacy expert and lead literacy intervention teacher Kelly Child will be leading a parent and carer information evening in our school hall on Monday 19th March 7-8pm. Kelly will outline useful strategies and activities you can do at home with your child. If you would like to come along please email our school office – office@stmartins.sch.gg .This should be a fantastic evening so please make the time to come along!

Home Sharing

We have started using a website called j2e for the children to save their work. This could be a photograph (work selfie) of a piece of work that they are proud of or a photograph or video of something that they have made in the Discovery Zone. The children will have come home today with a QR code which is their log in for their personal j2e account. They will be able use this QR code at home to log on and share their learning with you.

In the Discovery Zone, Children will be able to choose for themselves when they save something to j2e so please don’t expect to find something everyday and some children will save things more than others. We will ensure that children save something at least each half term.

As part of our e-safety lessons we have explained to children the importance of not sharing their password/QR code or letting anyone else use it, so please could you let your child log on using their QR code rather than doing it for them. Your child will then be able to find their work on their account to share with you.

We are hope that you and your child enjoy this experience of being able to share your child’s learning together.

Please access j2e using this link: https://www.j2e.com/dashboard/#manage

then click on the QR code symbol which will bring up the camera for you to scan the QR code. Please note that you will only be able to access j2e if you have a device with a camera.

Thank you

The Year 1 Team

 

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Weekly Note w/c 5.3.18

Thank you to everyone who has sent in pictures of the children in the snow. It sounds like they all had a great time during the unexpected days off!

Thank you as well to those of you who have sent in photos of the children on holiday. We have enjoyed hearing about and finding their destinations on the map.

Next week we will be continuing with our work on Goldilocks and the Three Bears in literacy and money work in maths as due to the snow we didn’t manage to cover everything this week!

Online Safety Meeting

In this rapidly developing age of technology, it is important to know what you can do to better help your child to stay safe online so please don’t forget to come along to the online safety meeting which is this Wednesday (7th March) at 7pm.

Parents Evening

Please don’t forget to sign up for a parents evening slot. You should have had an e-mail from the office with details. If you haven’t, please pop in and let us know.

Thank you

The Year 1 Team