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Weekly Note w/c 23.4.18

This week the children have been enjoying a variety of traditional tales. We will be continuing this work on storytelling next week by encouraging children to make up their own stories, basing them on traditional tales if they wish.

In maths, we will be carrying on with our work on counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. Click here for some counting activities which you might like to do with your child at home.

Please remember the new library days:

Tuesday – Mrs Boscher

Wednesday – Miss Horsepool

Thursday – Mrs Bramley

All children need an outdoor PE kit on a Wednesday please – there were quite a few who had forgotten this week.

As the weather is now starting to warm up (fingers crossed it continues!), please ensure that children have suncream applied before school and that they bring a named sunhat in to wear when the weather is hot and sunny.

Thank you

The Year 1 Team

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Weekly Note – w/c – 16.4.18

Welcome back! We hope you all had an enjoyable holiday.

We are excited to be beginning the final term in Year 1 as we have lots of exciting things coming up.

As this is the last term in Year 1, in preparation for the children moving to Year 2, we are encouraging more independence. Please could you help with this by saying goodbye to your child when they line up outside so that they can come in organise their things by themselves. We will be around to give reminders if they forget anything. We have noticed more children coming in with their parents through the Reception doors. Please could we remind you that Year 1 children should be coming in through the Year 1 doors (where Mrs Bramley’s and Mrs Boscher’s classes are collected from at the end of the day).

Next week we will be doing some story telling in the Discovery Zone and linking it to our literacy teaching. If you have any traditional tales at home which your child would like to bring in and share with the class we would love to see them.

In numeracy we will be counting in 2s, 5s and 10s as well as doing some work on halving. This links in with the Rainbow Maths targets which we will be continuing with from last term for the next couple of weeks.

Library

Tuesday – Mrs Boscher

Wednesday – Miss Horsepool

Thursday – Mrs Bramley

Please note that these are different to last term.

Swimming

Tuesday  9 – 10.20 – Mrs Bramley

Thursday  9 – 10.40 – Miss Horsepool

Friday   9 – 10.20 – Mrs Boscher

We are still short of parents to help the children with changing so if you are able to help please let your child’s teacher know. Thank you

PE

Wednesdays – Please could all children bring outdoor kit with trainers.

 

 

Thank you for your support,

The Year 1 team.

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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/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

 

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Teach Your Monster to Read

If you are looking for something to keep your child busy when they aren’t playing in the snow then you might like to try an app called Teach Your Monster to Read. It is free until this Sunday (usually £5.99) and a great one to download to help support phonics and reading! It begins with single letter recognition and works right up to reading sentences.

FREE Teach Your Monster to Read app!

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Posted by Teach Your Monster to Read on Sunday, February 25, 2018

iTunes – https://tinyurl.com/iTunesTeachMonster

Amazon UK – https://tinyurl.com/AmazonUKTeachMonster

Google Play – https://tinyurl.com/GoogleTeachMonster

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Weekly Note – w/c 12.2.18

Dear Parents and Carers,

The children all looked fabulous dressed up as different book characters today and we enjoyed hearing about their favourite stories.

Science

As part of the whole school science focus next week, each class will be looking at paper spinners and children will be challenged to investigate different sizes and shapes to see which one stays in the air the longest. More details will be sent home next week if your child would like to continue this investigation at home.

Literacy

In Literacy next week we will be continuing our work on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children are learning to re-tell the story using a story map and actions to help. The story map is below if your child would like to use it to re-tell you the story at home. We will also be doing some sentence work based on the story.

 

Maths

In maths next week the children will be using their addition and subtraction skills to help them solve word problems.

Spare Uniform

If your child has worn spare uniform home and you haven’t returned it yet, please could it be returned to school as soon as possible because we are very low on spare clothes and with the wet weather, we are finding that we are needing them more often than usual.

Thank you for your support.

The Year 1 Team

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Help still needed please

Mrs Bramley’s and Miss Horsepool’s Classes still require 1 more parent helper in order to have the right child to adult ratio for our trip to the library tomorrow. If you are able to help please could you let us know as soon as possible. Thank you to those parents who have already offered their help, we really appreciate it. Mrs Boscher already has enough parents for her visit on Friday.

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Discovery Zone Open Afternoons

There was a bit of confusion over the dates for the Discovery Zone Open Afternoons on the original blog post (this has now been corrected). Please accept our apologies for any confusion, The correct times and dates are as follows:

Tuesday 30th January @ 2.00-2.45pm- Miss Horsepool’s class

Wednesday 31st January @ 2.00-2.45pm – Mrs Bramley’s class

Friday 2nd February @ 2.00-2.45pm – Mrs Boscher’s class

Thank you, and we look forward to you joining us.

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Weekly Note -w/c 15.1.18

The children are enjoying our new topic of monsters in the Discovery Zone and were very excited to find that Marty the Monster has moved in with his dark den. Marty only comes out at night because he is afraid of the dark so he writes letters to the children. The children have been enjoying writing back to him and posting their letters in his post box.

In literacy next week we will be looking at descriptions and asking the children to write sentences to describe a monster.

In maths next week we will be looking at doubling with monsters.

 

Discovery Zone Open Afternoons

We would like to invite you to come and spend an afternoon with your child while they are learning in the Discovery Zone so that they can show you their favourite activities.

Miss Horsepool’s Class – Tuesday 30th January 2-3pm

Mrs Bramley’s Class – Wednesday 31st January 2-3pm

Mrs Boscher’s Class – Friday 2nd February 2-3pm

 

Library Visit

We will be visiting the Guilles Alles Library in town where the children will listen to some stories about monsters and do a craft activity based on monsters. We will need some parent helpers for this trip please so that we have the right child to adult ratio. If you are able to help, please could you let your child’s class teacher know.

Mrs Bramley and Miss Horsepool’s Class will be going on Tuesday 23rd January from 9-11am

Mrs Boscher’s Class will be going on Friday 26th January from 9-11am

 

Thank you for your support,

The Year 1 team