Year 1
Welcome to Year 1!
We are so proud of our Canon Popham families for pulling together and making the most of everything, continuing to learn and grow together in very difficult and challenging times. Although we are not together in school, we are still together on here.
Friday 17th July 2020
Hi everyone!
I hope you have had a great final week of learning in year 1.
I would like to say well done to our Maths with Parents, Summer Superstars, you have been sent a certificate!
Lillie
Noah
Noah
Ella
Alson
Phillip
Amy
It has been great to see all your fantastic work and smiley faces over the weeks since we began this home learning journey! I would like to say a huge WELL DONE to each and every one of you for all your effort, you have certainly shown great endurance, one of our school’s Christian Values, throughout this time.
Thank you to everyone who have sent photos of your work, I am very proud of how much learning you have done in your final week of Year 1. I have put together one last power point of learning for year 1, look out for your work here:
Week 14 power point of learning – 13TH July – 17th July 2020
I can’t wait to see you all again in September when we begin our year 2 journey! Have a lovely rest over the summer and lots of fun with your families
Love Mrs Rowe.
Class emails
You can email me at: year1@cpa.dsat.education
Online Safety
Children may well be using the internet more than usual at the moment so it is a good time to remind and emphasise how to keep safe online. CEOP have produced lots of great resources which parents/carers can access on their website: www.thinkyouknow.co.uk
We know it can be hard to limit screen time and ensure we are monitoring our children’s use off electronic apps. Here is a booklet you may find useful: Parental Controls booklet 2020
We use a cursive style handwriting in our school, the children have worked so hard in year 1 to develop their handwriting. Work on our displays shows how beautiful their handwriting is and is often commented on when we have visitors in school. Please try to encourage your child to use this when they are completing any written home learning tasks. A good resource for this is on YouTube to see how each letter is formed. This can be found here.
If you would like to use the handwriting lines which we use in school, these can be downloaded and printed here:
Spellings – a daily activity
The Spelling Frame website has lots of fun games to support your learning of the Year 1 spelling rules. Please spend ten minutes playing some of the activities in Spelling Tiles.
Phonics – a daily activity
As a school we follow the Read, Write, Inc programme to deliver our phonics teaching. Year 1 have been taught all the set 3 phonemes and are currently revisiting them for fluency. We have lots of information on our schools phonics page here: http://canon-popham.vox-cms.com/site/phonics/
Phonics – YouTube
The lessons will be played on loop throughout the summer holidays, all films last approximately 10 minutes and will be available daily from 9.30am for 24 hours.
Daily films include:
- Speed sounds Set 1: for children to practice Set 1 phonemes.
- Speed sounds Set 2: for children to practice Set 2 phonemes.
- Speed sounds Set 3: for children to practice Set 3 phonemes.
- Read longer words: for children who can read Set 3 sounds and words confidently.
- Read Red Words 1: for children who are reading Red, Green, Purple, Pink and Orange Read Write Inc. Storybooks. Many children are able to read these in Reception.
- Read Red Words 2: for children who are reading Yellow, Blue and Grey Read Write Inc. Storybooks. Many children are able to read these in Y1.
- Read and Hold a Sentence 1 (from 15th June): reading and writing practice for children reading Green, Purple, Pink and Orange Read Write Inc. Storybooks. (For children reading and writing with Set 1 sounds confidently and learning Set 2 sounds.)
- Read and Hold a Sentence 2 (from 15th June): reading and writing practice for children reading Yellow, Blue and Grey Read Write Inc. Storybooks. (For children reading and writing words with Set 2 sounds confidently and learning Set 3 sounds.)
Films practice the speed sounds taught and use Fred talk to read some green words containing the known phonemes. They can be accessed here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ (This links to an external site, we are not responsible for the content)
There is also a hotline for parents and carers helping children to read at home with Read Write Inc. Phonics. Please email any queries to homereading@ruthmiskin.com
Stories – YouTube
Films of well loved stories read by Nick Cannon will also be released. Three stories will be published each week at 2pm on a Monday, Wedensday and Friday. These are ideal for Nursery, Reception and KS1 children. There are stories by Tom Percival, Cressida Cowell, David Melling, Jeanne Willis, Judith Kerr, Oliver Jeffers and David Walliams.
Stories are accessible here: Storytime with Nick (This links to an external site, we are not responsible for the content)
Poetry – YouTube
To encourage a love of poetry, there are seven Poetry Time films for children in Reception and Year 1 to watch. Our performers, Nick and Elly, show how reading poems with thought and attention can evoke strong feelings in children – and adults! Children and parents can join in, enjoy the poems again and again and even learn them by heart.
Poems are accessible here: Poetry Time (This links to an external site, we are not responsible for the content)
PDFs of the poems for adults to read to children are available here:
Reception class – Cake-O-Saurus
Reception class – Oh Oh the Storyman
Reception class – Bedtime Marchpast
Year 1 – The Monster Under Your Bed
Oxford Owl Library have a Read Write Inc. page where you can find lots of free resources to support your child’s learning including free ebooks with decodable stories, practice sheets which can be printed at home, slideshows containing green words to improve fluency and get children used to reading words without saying the sounds out loud and some videos to help you support your child with detailed ideas and advice on pronouncing pure sounds, blending and digraphs. Please follow this link https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/ (This links to an external site, we are not responsible for the content.)
In response to the ongoing situation, PhonicsPlay is free to use during this period. Children can use the site at home without needing to subscribe. To access the resources all you need to do is follow the link and log on using the details below. (This links to an external site, we are not responsible for the content.)
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Username: march20
Password: home
Reading – 20 times a month to receive a golden ticket!
Please continue to enjoy your reading each day. Adults please continue to record reading in the reading diary. We have discussed in class that children are allowed to read a range of texts as well as their school reading book e.g. home books, magazines, online information. We will count all entries in the reading diaries once we return to school and award golden tickets to those who have read 20 times or more in a month.
Useful links
You may find the links below useful to find more books to read! (All these links are to external sites, we are not responsible for the content.)
Oxford Owl Library The library is a fantastic e-book resource, you just need to register your e-mail on the site to access a range of books for free.
https://readon.myon.co.uk A free resource with a selection of digital books. Access to thousands of enhanced digital books through myON and articles from myON News.
https://stories.audible.com A currently free resource, for as long as schools are closed, with a selection of stories to listen to. You can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help children to continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.
https://storylineonline.net A free resource with a selection of stories to watch being read by an adult. Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
https://booktrust.org.uk A free resource with story books to listen to and read along. BookTrust is the UK’s largest children’s reading charity, dedicated to getting children reading.
https://openlibrary.org A free resource with storybooks to download and read. Open Library is an open, editable library catalogue, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com A free resource when used on a computer, also available to purchase on a tablet or phone. Teach Your Monster to Read is for children in the first stages of learning to read and for older children who need a bit more practice. The game takes children on a magical journey, meeting colourful characters along the way and collecting fantastic rewards.As they progress, they rehearse a range of essential reading skills; matching letters to sounds, blending, segmenting, tricky words and reading full sentences.
The Canon Popham Times Table Challenge
We are continuing with the school ‘Times Tables Challenge’ award system to encourage the children to learn their times tables. In Year 1, children need to count forwards and backwards in steps of 2 and 10 to achieve their merit award. Then to achieve their bronze award they must answer 30 questions in 3 minutes, using their 2, 5 and 10 times tables knowledge, to answer a range of multiplication, division and missing number equations.
Try it!!! Can you do it? You can practise as many times as you like by following the links
Numbots 
Our school has launched Numbots, which is an on-line programme to boost addition and subtraction skills.
NumBots is available on a range of devices, you can play online at play.numbots.com or download the NumBots app. Playing little and often will significantly improve your child’s recall and understanding of number bonds and addition and subtraction facts. These are critical foundations in maths so we are excited by the impact NumBots will have. In order to get the best out of NumBots children should regularly play for short bursts of time over the week.
Emails have been sent to parents containing your child’e login details. If you have not received this email or are having trouble accessing the website, please let me know.
Maths with Parents
Thank you for engaging with our online Maths homework programme, we have 100% of our class registered. It’s lovely to see all of your photographs and read all of your comments about the fun you’ve had playing the games which are suggested.
When you complete the video and activities you get to change your Mathscot.
I am still loving looking at all your extremely stylish Mathscots, If you haven’t signed up yet, you’re missing out on the fun! Go to www.mathswithparents.com and add your child’s class code to register.
Year 1’s code is – 949522.
Please read some of the feedback from parents and pupils – mwp feedback doubling and halving to 20
Make maths fun by having a go at some Maths games by clicking here.
Finally, Topmarks have some good games to play for fun such as Daily Ten and Hit the Button.
Extra activities
In the event that you would like to do more learning, there is an Additional Home Learning Resources page with other activities. Not all will be suitable for Year 1. Please remember that these are optional extras and that you can learn in lots of different ways at home too. Active fusion have provided a home PE support pack which can be adapted for all ages, this can be found following the additional home learning resources link above.
Thank you
Thank you for the continued support in helping with your child’s learning during this time at home.
Remember that we are all finding our way through this. Keep an open mind, be kind to yourselves and each other, stay safe, keep smiling and finally keep in touch!
Mrs Rowe (Class Teacher)
Mrs Drake (Learning Support Assistant)
Previous Learning
Here are the learning activities from previous weeks if you are still completing them!
Week beginning 13th July 2020
Week 13 powerpoint of learning – 6th July – 10th July 2020 A power point showing a selection of the work Year 1 children have completed.
Maths
English
Spellings
Revisit Spelling Rule 46 – tch, Spelling Rule 47 – v at the end of words and Spelling Rule 37 – common exception words 5.
Whole School Themed Project
Y1Y2 Canon Popham Week 14 learning project – Viewpoints
You might want to start by watching this video about debates:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zjpmhyc
Week beginning 06th July 2020
Week 12 powerpoint of learning – 29th June – 3rd July 2020 A power point showing a selection of the work Year 1 children have completed.
Maths
English
Reading Billy Dogs Gruff Day 3 and Day 4
Spelings
Revisit Spelling Rule 3 – oy, Spelling Rule 2 – oi and Spelling Rule 36 – common exception words 4.
Whole School Themed Project
Y1Y2 Canon Popham Week 13 learning project – Around the world!
You might want to start by watching this ‘Hello around the world’ song.
Week beginning 29th June 2020
Week 11 powerpoint of learning 22nd – 26th June 2020 A power point showing a selection of the work Year 1 children have completed.
Maths
English
Reading for Day 2 – Sleeping Beauty
Spellings
Revisit Spelling Rule 17 – ou, Spelling Rule 18 – ow and Spelling Rule 35 – common exception words 3.
Whole school themed project
Y1Y2 Canon Popham Week 12 learning project – Animals
Week beginning 22nd June 2020
Week 11 powerpoint of learning – 15th June – 19th June 2020 A power point showing a selection of the work Year 1 children have completed.
Maths
English
Reading Day 2 Chicken’s bad dream
Spellings
Revisit Spelling Rule 9 – er, Spelling Rule 12 – ur and Spelling Rule 34 – common exception words 2.
Whole School Themed Project
Y1Y2 Canon Popham Week 12 learning project – Music
Week beginning 15th June 2020
Week 10 powerpoint of learning 8th – 12th June A power point showing a selection of the work Year 1 children have completed.
Maths
English
Spellings
Revisit Spelling Rule 11 – ir, Spelling Rule 10 – er and Spelling Rule 39 – common exception words 8.
Whole School Themed Project
Y1/Y2 Canon Popham Week 11 learning project – Rainforests
You might want to start by watching this video about rainforests.
Week beginning 8th June 2020
Week 9 powerpoint of learning – 1st – 5th June A power point showing a selection of the work Year 1 children have completed.
Maths
English
Reading Day 2 Superheroes all sorts
Spellings
Revisit Spelling Rule 29 – air, Spelling Rule 32 – are and Spelling Rule 39 – common exception words 7.
Whole School Themed Project
Y1 Canon Popham Week 7 learning project – Space
You may enjoy watching the live space walk pictures that have been going live this week below.
Week beginning 1st June 2020
Week 8 powerpoint of learning 18th – 22nd May A power point showing a selection of the work Year 1 children have completed.
Maths
English
Day 1 and Day 2 Reading – Superheroes all sorts
Spellings
Revisit Spelling Rule 5 – ar, Spelling Rule 25 – or and Spelling Rule 38 – common exception words 6.
Whole School Themed Project
Y1Y2 Canon Popham Week 8 learning project – Food
Week beginning 18th May 2020
Week 7 powerpoint of learning 11th May – 15th May A power point showing a selection of the work Year 1 children have completed.
Year 1 Reading Challenge CPPA Mrs Rowe A selection of activities based around reading.
Winner: Rupert (£5 gift card)
Runner up: Olivia (story book)
It was extremely difficult to pick a winner and runner up and all who entered will receive a prize on return to school
Maths
English
Day 4 and Day 5 Reading – Mouse Frog Little Hen
Spellings
Revisit Spelling Rule 13 – o0, Spelling Rule 21 – ew and Spelling Rule 37 – common exception words 5.
Whole school themed project
Y1Y2 Canon Popham Week 7 learning project – Sport
Week beginning 11th May 2020
Week 6 powerpoint of learning 4th – 8th May A power point showing a selection of the work Year 1 children have completed.
Maths
English
Day 1 and 2 Reading Chinese New Year – The Race Across the River
Spellings
Revisit Spelling Rule 19 – ow, Spelling Rule 15 – oa and Spelling Rule 36 – common exception words 4.
Whole School Themed Learning Project
Y1Y2 Canon Popham Week 6 learning project – Famous and significant people
Week beginning 3rd May 2020
Week 5 powerpoint of learning 27th April – 1st May A power point showing a selection of the work Year 1 children have completed.
Maths
English
Reading No Thank You Day 1, 2 and 3 This is the reading you will need, to complete the tasks on day 1, day 2 and day 3.
Spellings
Revisit Spelling Rule 24 – igh, Spelling Rule 22 – ie and Spelling Rule 35 – common exception words 3.
Whole School Themed Learning Project
Y1Y2 Canon Popham Week 5 learning project – Under the Sea
Week beginning 27th April 2020
Week 4 learning 20th – 24th April A power point showing a selection of the work Year 1 children have completed.
Maths
English
Spellings
Revisit Spelling Rule 6 – ee, Spelling Rule 7 – ea and Spelling Rule 34 – common exception words 2.
Whole School Themed Learning Project
Y1Y2 Canon Popham Week 4 learning project – Area you live in
Collective Worship
A collective worship assembly, in the style of cartoons, with a lovely message. It was created by Huw Thomas, the director of education for our church school diocese. You can access it following the link here: https://youtu.be/hYJ9zCAx2kQ?fbclid=IwAR3G07Ou3RPGEnQpvvvN2FrQhj7PcrIQwyCe_9q0JxA_74Yb6i2DnS4WskE
If you do begin to doodle faces, please send them to the school email and I will keep them safe for Huw!
Week beginning 20th April 2020
Maths
English
Spellings
Revisit Spelling Rule 4 – ay, Spelling Rule 1 – ai and Spelling Rule 33 – common exception words 1.
Whole School Themed Learning Project
Y1_2 Canon Popham Week 3 learning project – My family
Week beginning 30th March 2020
Maths
English
Y1 Day 2 text – Boris and Sid are bad
Y1 Day 4 text – The owl and the moon
Parents Information & Meeting Information
- September Reading Workshop Information can be downloaded here – KS1 Reading Workshop Presentation
- September Maths Workshop Information can be downloaded here – KS1 Maths Workshop Presentation
- September Writing Workshop Information can be downloaded here – KS1 Writing Workshop Presentation
- January Phonics Presentation Information can be downloaded here – Phonics Meeting Presentation
All further events are postponed.