Welcome to Year One!

I hope you had a wonderful summer break and are looking forward to starting back in Year One.

Drop off and collection will be at the Year One outside door that leads onto the front playground. I usually welcome the children in, so I will be at the door on Wednesday if you have any questions.

We will have a brief whole class teacher-parent meeting in the first few weeks, so lots of things about Year One will be explained to you then.

This half-term, we will be focusing on place value and addition/subtraction in Maths. We will be reading ‘The Sea Saw’ by Tom Percival in English and will be looking at poems. We will be learning about the history of toys, which is always quite enjoyable, and will be visiting the Bridewell Museum later in the half-term to support this. As well as this, we will be cooking our own cookies, exploring human senses and having a go at using the laptops.

We will continue to follow the Little Wandle Phonics scheme and will have our Phonics lessons daily. We will continue with the reading groups 3 times a week and will send the Little Wandle book home on a Friday. We encourage children to read it over the weekend if possible, so they can be handed back in at the beginning of the week. Sharing books are available throughout the week. We will show the children where they are but we do encourage children to be independent and swap their books when they are finished so they always have a new sharing book to take home.

P.E will be with Mr Stocker on a Wednesday and Thursday. Please make sure children have their kit in school, especially on these days. It is also helpful if children can have an art apron at school. It looks to continue being sunny for a little while, but wellies are encouraged at lunch time when the weather starts to get a little colder/wetter.

We have decided to continue with Tapestry this year to make it easier for you to communicate with us. This will be my first year using Tapestry so I will try my best to get to grips with it quickly!

If you have any questions or worries, please don’t hesitate in getting in touch.

I look forward to meeting you all properly on Wednesday!

Best wishes,

Mrs Coates 😊