What a wonderful week it has been!

We want to say a huge thank you to Tony Coates for visiting us this week! As we have been looking at digital painting. We had a wonderful visit from Tony Coates a real-life graphic designer! He showed us all the images he created in the  past and some of his most recent artwork! We loved having him in and answering all our arty questions. We then spoke about the toys we have been digitally painting and created our own boxes for them. We drew three options, as Tony said we needed drafts, and then we picked the best! 

 Read, Write Inc.

We have been continuing practising spotting our sounds and then using fred talk to read words. We have also been continuing to use our fred fingers to help us write the words in our books, but not for the red words, because we all know you can't fred a red! We have been working hard on our writing and making sure all our letters are formed correctly. We have been really working on our big writes, keeping diaries at home, writing comic strips, writing postcards/cards, and making up stories at home can really support this. In your child’s reading folders, you will find some set 1,2 and 3 sounds and also some red words. Any practice with these would be wonderful!

Reading

*UPDATE*     Read, Write, Ink home readers will now be changed on Mondays not Fridays. Please continue to remind the children to put their reading folder in the coloured trays so that we can give them new books.

Reading at 3 - Every Friday at 3 our doors will be open for you to come in and read with your child. Please note, this will be for the full 15 minutes and children should not leave any earlier. Their books will be set up and ready for you to come in and enjoy listening to their wonderful reading. 

Reading folders - All children will bring home two books, one being a RWI home book. Children are expected to try and read this three times during the week to ensure they are building on their reading fluency. The RWI home books will be changed, by an adult, every Monday.

The other book (with the coloured sticker) should be changed independently by the child themselves - first thing in the morning is a great time to do this! 

Please ensure that the reading folders are being placed in the reading-coloured trays, so we can read with your children and ensure books get changed. Thank you for your support with this!

Please listen to your child read as much as possible at home and record this in their reading records. Every week, one child from each class will receive a reading certificate in our Chilton Heroes assembly.

Let's practice spotting special friends, fred talk, read the word. Your words of the week are....remember you can break up multisyllabic words into two chunks with your finger to help!

Maths

This week we have been recapping our knowledge on addition and subtraction. We worked hard on subtracting by regrouping into tens and ones. We then moved our learning on by looking at the inverse and showing the opposite calculations to the one we had been given. Some of us even called then number families! We ended the week by looking at some reasoning and convincing. We had to convince Mrs Winchcombe that if we swap the first two numbers in the calculation around, we will get the same answer.

Next week we will be looking at addition and subtraction.

Thematic

This week in DT, we have planned, made and evaluated our own slider toys! We used our plans to create our own stories with sliders! We made sure we were really safe and supported each other when using tools. We had to think about the direction that we wanted the pieces to move and then cut the lines for the sliders accordingly. Some of us even challenged ourselves to make parts move in more than 1 direction!

Home learning

We would love for you to show us some of your number families, using the inverse! For example…

8 + 2 = 10

2 + 8 = 10

10 – 8 = 2

10 – 2 = 8

Other news

PE is on a Wednesday.

Sports project will be on a Tuesday – Only trainers needed, with full school uniform.

Doors will continue to open in the morning at 8:30am. Registration will be at the slightly earlier time of 8:45am (doors close at this time).

Mrs Howard will be teaching Team Peacock every Tuesday and Team Azure on Monday afternoons.

Olympian visit!

We are incredibly excited to announce that on the 6^{th of} June we have Olympic gymnast Danny Crouch visiting Chilton, to deliver a class assembly with a Q & A session and a short fitness session. Every child has received a sponsorship form this week to complete and fill in to try and raise as much money as possible for Danny to help him with his career. There will be prizes for the most amount raised! If you would like any extra information about Danny, his crowdfunding page is linked below.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/chilton-primary-school

Dates to remember...

22nd May - Year 1 and 2 Viking Games at Chilton Primary School

24th May - Dress to Express day and Be here, be you, belong parade at 2.15 on school field

24th May - Last day of term

Thank you for your support towards your child's learning,

 

Mrs Winchcombe, Miss Bryson and all the Year 1 team.

 Mrs Poppy Winchcombe – Team Peacock – poppy.winchcombe@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Miss Polly Bryson – Team Azure – polly.bryson@chiltonprimary.co.uk