What a wonderful week we have had in Year 1!

Thank you!

We wanted to start the blog with a big thank you. We understand that this is a busy time for everyone and so wanted to take this opportunity to express our gratitude for sending things in to school on time, attending the Christmas fair and remembering all the things needed at this time. We are very grateful for this!

Nativity

The Year 1 Nativity will be on Monday 16^th December at 9am. We are very much looking forward to welcoming you to see the wonderful show that the children have been working so hard on. Please could children come in to school on Monday morning in their costumes/outfits and bring their school clothes in a bag so that they can get changed after. If the school is providing the costume, please send your child in to school in their uniform and we will help them to get changed once in school. Many thanks.

Christmas Party

The party for Year 1 will be on Tuesday 17^th December. Children can come in their own clothes but please be mindful we will still be playing outside and having art and craft activities. Please can you bring in a small amount of the following on this day:
Red Romans - crisps

Blue Vikings - sweet 

Green Normans - savoury 

Yellow Saxons - fruit 

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, we have been learning to create pictograms and interpret the data in a pictogram. An example of a pictogram is below:

Next week, we will be learning to work systematically to find different possibilities in Christmas problem solving activities. For example, the children will colour in Father Christmas’s hat using 3 colours, but each one needs to look different.

Fact of the week

Our fact of the week this week and next week is:

Consolidating our learning of all the doubles we have learned this term (1+1, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4, 5+5).

Thematic

This week, we have concluded our thematic learning with an end of unit quiz. This showed us how much the children have learned in this unit! We also completed our oracy task for this unit where the children worked in their house groups to prepare and then present a weather report. They had to focus on their presenting skills as well as using so and because in their presentations to explain their ideas.

Here are a few pictures of us enjoying creating a Christmassy scene...

  

 

 Reading

Mondays – RWI books to be changed by an adult. Please could ALL reading wallets be put in the trays so that we can check who has earned a certificate.

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays – children can change their learning zone book (the one with the coloured sticker on). Please help them to have this book ready to change when they come in to the classroom in the mornings. 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

Thank you so much to the children/families for completing their love to learn task last week – practising the songs for our nativity!

This week, we would like the children to create their own pictogram (see example of what a pictogram looks like in the maths section above). Children will need to ask family/friends what their favourite sport/food/film (the choice is theirs!) and present the data in a pictogram.

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 on Wednesday each week.

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 this term.

Dates to remember

16th December – Year 1 Nativity at 9am

17th December – Reception, year 1 and year 2 Christmas party day (party clothes to be worn)

20th December – Christmas jumper day (children can wear usual school uniform with a Christmas jumper)

20th December – School Christmas dinner

20th December – Last day of school; School finishes at 2pm; No after school club on this day

 

Monday 6th January – All children back into school at the normal time

Friday 10th January – Polly Billington MP is visiting Chilton

Tuesday 21st January 3.30-4.30 – Thrive Coffee afternoon

Friday 7th February – NSPCC Number Day. Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 to wear a number themed outfit and KS2 to come as Times Table Rock Stars

Tuesday 11th February – Safer Internet Day

Friday 14th February – School Disco

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