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W/C: 18th September 2023

Welcome to our Year one blog.

We have made a lovely start to the new term. We launched our author study about Julia Donaldson, reading a wide selection of her stories. We have focused on the Gruffalo and Room on the Broom and next week we will be reading and completing tasks on the Smeds and the Smoos. The children have enjoyed listening to her stories and have brought in books from home to share with the class.

This week we will start our topic on Polar regions and we will learn about the type of animals that live there and research and record facts about the Polar regions.

We have made a great start in phonics, with all the children working hard in their new groups. Your child should have received a reading book to read and there is online homework set on Oxford Owl for your child to complete. Please encourage your child to do the reading and complete the quizes each week as this supports their learning in class and the progress that they make. The phonics teachers can also check who has completed the homework and the children will receive extra dojos for doing their homework.

This week we are continuing the children’s knowledge and understanding of number and place value via counting. The children will learn to write numbers correctly, recognise numbers as words and learn to count on from a given number.

Each child has their own Num bots account to access the Maths activities for home work. You will find the login details in the reading diaries. Please encourage your child to try the activities as again this consolidates their Maths skills.

On Tuesday 3rd October we will be going on a trip to Twycross Zoo. Please ensure you complete the permission slip and make the payment contribution.

Any queries you can contact us on our class emails.

[email protected]

[email protected]

Have a great week.

The Year One Team

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Welcome back to a new academic year. Keep an eye on the blog this year as we share lots of your fantastic learning and experiences.

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Maths Photo Competition

During this week, your child has participated in maths activities related to Coventry, including its history.

As part of this, we are running a maths photo competition ‘Looking at Coventry Through Maths Eyes’. The aim of this is to help everyone realise that maths is all around us and our local environment is mathematically rich. Using the things around us is a superb way to engage your child in talking about maths.

Over half term, we would like you and your child to take a photo/snapshot of familiar things that capture some aspect of real-life mathematics in and around Coventry.  We would like you to send your photo into us with a mathematical question (see examples below).  There are prizes up for grabs!

Please send your ‘Looking at Coventry Through Maths Eyes’ photos/questions to Mrs Walton by Wednesday 1st March to [email protected]    Please state clearly your child’s name and class.

I looking forward to seeing all your photos,

Mrs Walton

Maths Standards Leader

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Week Beginning 12th September

A huge welcome back to all of the children! It has been a delight to see them all back and with such an enthusiastic and positive outlook on their new year of school. The children have settled in brilliantly and have adapted to their new surroundings and routines. We are looking forward to a super first term of learning!

In phonics this week, the children will be working in their new groups, following the assessments that took place in the summer. The children will be continuing their reading, writing and spelling throughout the week and recapping the learning from their previous group. The children will be sent home with their Read Write Inc reading book on Friday and this will need to be returned the following Wednesday. They will also be assigned their home learning material which will need to be completed online.

In maths this week, we will be focusing on sorting in different ways. The children will be given different objects and will be discussing the ways they could be sorted. We will also be discussing that collections of objects can be sorted into sets based on attributes such as colour, size or shape. Sorting enables children to consider what is the same about all
the objects in one set and how they differ from the objects in other sets. We will also be practising our careful counting. The children need to be able to count accurately and carefully to ensure they are not making mistakes that can be avoided.

In the wider curriculum, we are going to be reading ‘What the Ladybird Heard’, in line with our top authors theme. Last week, we started to learn about Julia Donaldson and read ‘Room on the Broom’. We will be learning about rhyming words, onomatopoeia and alliteration. The children will be discussing different words we could use for words like ‘said’ and using adjectives to make their writing more exciting. By the end of the week, the children will be designing their own farm, just like in our story, and labelling the different parts of a farm.

A reminder that P.E days are on Monday and Thursday, so children will need to come into school wearing their P.E kits. The children do not need to bring their wellies into school and should have been given their reception boots back to them, last week.

If you need to contact your child’s class teacher, the email addresses are;

[email protected]

[email protected]

Have a fabulous week!

The Year 1 team

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The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

This special edition of the Focus shares with you some of the activities which we had in school to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Please click on the photo stacks to view all the photos of the fantastic day.

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Go Parks: Active Schools Challenge

https://go-cv.co.uk/goparks/

The countdown is on… this half term get scanning those QR codes in your local parks (or try somewhere new) as the competition ends on October 31st! Coundon are currently in with a good chance of winning but it can only remain this way with your help! Visit the website for a full list of locations and discover some of the events that are happening in the city over half term too.