What an incredible week we have had in Year 1! All of the children have completed some fabulous learning – well done to you all.

Read, Write Inc.

This week in Read, Write Inc. we have been reviewing sounds we know and learning new sounds. We have continued to use our sounds to read and write words, phrases and sentences. In particular, we have been looking for special friends in our words, saying the sounds and reading the word. Any practise at home reading a word by finding the special friends, saying the sounds and reading the word would be greatly appreciated! We have also been working hard on our handwriting and writing sentences with capital letters and full stops.

Maths

This week in maths, children have continued to look at adding. We started the week by being detectives and finding all of the ways to make a given number. We learned how to do this in a systematic way to ensure that we found all of the possibilities and did not make any repeats. At the end of the week, we learned to use part-part-whole models to add numbers together.

    

Fact of the week

Each week we will have a fact of the week. We will learn the addition fact(s) and the related subtraction fact(s). This week our fact is:

3+1=4

We also learned the other addition fact relating to this (1+3=4) and then learned the subtraction facts (4-1=3 and 4-3=1).

Next week we will start our subtraction learning.

Thematic

This week we have continued our thematic learning: My Home My Town. To start the week, we used our Love to Learn books to learn about what Ramsgate was like when members of our families were 5 or 6 years old. We then focused on one part of Ramsgate, The Ramsgate Tunnels. We learned about what these used to be used for and looked at pictures of them from the past. We then invited special visitors in to our class to speak to us about what the tunnels are like today.

         

Next week we will learn about a man called Augustus Pugin and what buildings he made in Ramsgate.

Reading

From Monday, we will change RWI books each Monday but will not get the children to change their learning zone book on this day. Lots of children are putting their reading wallets in to their bags after changing their learning zone book and therefore the RWI books are not being changed. Please help your child to remember to pop their reading wallet in to the coloured trays in the conservatory on a Monday morning so that RWI books can be changed – thank you!

Children will bring home two books in their reading folders, 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 (on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)- first thing in the morning is a great time to do this! These books can be changed as regularly as needed.

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 an assembly.

Children will also get a certificate for every 20 times they read so it is important that the reading record gets signed every time they read at home. BOTH RWI BOOKS AND THE LEARNING ZONE BOOKS CAN BE RECORDED IN THE READING RECORDS!

There will also be a sticker in your child’s reading record which will explain which skill they are working on with regards to their reading.

If you have any questions, please speak to your child’s class teacher.

Love to Learn

Well done to all of the children who have been completing their love to learn tasks. We can see that a lot of time and effort has gone in to completing these activities – well done!

This week we would like you to choose 1 place in Ramsgate and find out what it was like in the past and what it is like now. You could research this on the internet, you could visit the place, you could draw pictures of it. You can choose to record this in your books or just discuss this at home together.

Please remember that children are only allowed to use 1 page in their books each week. Thank you!

Love to Learn books need to be returned by next Wednesday.

Other news

Sports Slam (our additional PE lesson) is on a Monday. This is where the children will refine a skill each term, for this term our skill is jumping. Please can the children wear trainers and their normal school uniform on this day.

PE is on a Tuesday afternoon. Children need to wear a plain white t-shirt, black or navy bottoms and a plain black or blue sweatshirt.

Read at 3 is on every Friday at 3pm this is where we would love to invite you into our classrooms and read with your child for 15 minutes. This will happen every Friday thereafter this term.

Harvest

Later this term, we will be celebrating Harvest. As part of this, we would like to invite families in to watch our Harvest Assembly. These will take place in the school hall on the following dates:

Tuesday 1st October: 9am Year R and 1

Please enter the school via the main school office.

As part of the celebrations, we will also be collecting food that we will be donating to Thanet Food Bank. We will be taking donations between Wednesday 25th September and Monday 30th September. If you are able to donate, the food bank accepts any tinned, jarred or packet foods that are in date.

Dates to remember

Tuesday 1st October – 9am Year R and 1 Harvest assembly for parents

Tuesday 8th October – Flu vaccines

Friday 11th October – Fancy dress Disco Year 1, 2 and 3 3.15-4.15pm and Year 4, 5 and 6 4.30pm-5.30pm

Thursday 24th October – Parents invited into look at children’s books at 3.15pm

Friday 25th October – Inset day – School closed to children

If you would like to contact us, please feel free to email, alternatively we are available to catch at the end of the day or the start of the day by the door.

Team Cornflower: eloise.hall@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Team Sapphire: nicki.cotton@chiltonprimary.co.uk and elaine.howard@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Miss Hall, Mrs Cotton and Mrs Howard