What another amazing week!

Earlier in the week, we were a bit nervous about the forecast for our epic Viking Games but it turned out the weather gods were on our side, and what fun we had! We showed our school values of courage, equality, respect and kindness in welcoming the RAPS children to our school and really got into the sporting spirit.

 

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 we worked with our partner to read and solve word problems. We had to read the question carefully, decide whether we needed to use addition or subtraction, write the calculation and then use a number line to solve the answer! We were incredible at this!

Next term week we will continue to build on strategies to add and subtract.

R.E

This week we have been learning all about Hindu practices and festivals. We want to say a huge thank you to Devina Bhandekar for visiting us and telling us all about Hindu wedding celebrations! We loved feeling how heavy the wedding saris are and seeing Trisha wrapped in beautiful yellow. We learnt that whilst Hindu brides don't wear white, they do wear lots and lots of jewellery! We had the opportunity to look at photos of Trisha’s parents' wedding and Devina even showed us how the henna is done by demonstrating on Trisha’s hand, take a look!

P.S.H.E

Today we had a parade to celebrate our learning about being here, being you and belonging! We have loved talking about how incredible we are and writing about our unique qualities this term. We hope you enjoyed seeing our masks and moves in action!

Home learning

We would love for you to look out for special friends in the environment this week. Find and write 6 words with special friends and 4 words with chatty friends. Maybe you will see them on road signs, maybe on packets in the supermarket.... Use the sound chart in your reading folder to help!

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.

Dates to remember...

3rd June - First 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