Year 1
Welcome to Year 1!
Summer 2, 2018
Welcome back! We hope that you all enjoyed your half term break and that your child is ready to continue their learning with another exciting topic.
Our theme this half term is ‘Who will win?’
Which is your favourite football team? Why?
Who do you think will win this year’s world cup?
General Information 
Year 1 Phonics Meeting was held on Thursday 1st February. A copy of the presentation can be found here.
Friday 8th June 2018 – Class Photos
Friday 15th June 2018 – Canon Popham’s got talent @ 6pm
Wednesday 27th or Thursday 28th June 2018 – Sports day
Friday 29th June 2018 – Year 1 class assembly
Saturday 30th June 2018 – Summer Fayre @12pm
Wednesday 18th July 2018 – KS1 Pride in Our Learning afternoon @ 3pm
Friday 20th July 2018 – School breaks up for the summer @ 3:30pm
Children need to bring their P.E. kits on Monday to be kept in school until Friday. Year 1 will have their P.E. session on Thursdays.
On this days can you please ensure that long hair is tied back and that earrings are not worn.
It would also be helpful to label your child’s PE kit with their name.
Reading books will be changed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Please make a record of every time your child reads because if they read 20 times within a month, they will receive a golden ticket.
Key Stage 1 parents who help their child to read 20 times a month will be entered into a monthly prize draw.
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)
Phonics
In year 1 we continue to build on the phonics sessions that have taken place throughout your child’s time in the reception class.
We follow the Read, Write Inc scheme for the teaching and learning of phonics.
At the end of Year 1, all children have to undertake the Year 1 Phonics Screening. Working 1:1 with the teacher, children will read 40 words, some of which are real and some of which are pseudo (made up/’alien’) words containing the 40+ phonemes they have learned during their first two years in school.
You can support your child at home with their phonics by reading as much as possible with your child and investigating some of the phonics links given below:
| Deep Sea Phonics | Dragons Den | Buried Treasure | Obb & Bob |
| Learn to Read | Spelling | BBC Words and Pictures |
EGPS
Spellings
Weekly spellings will be given out on Fridays. Your child will be tested on a selection of these the following Friday.
Also during the week, your child will complete a short dictation exercise containing the weekly spellings.
Please support your child at home by helping your child learn their weekly spellings.
Grammar and Punctuation
Below are links to some of the sites which the children enjoy learning from.
| Sentence building | Past tense | Nouns | Spelling |
| Contractions | Conjunctions | Spelling | Punctuation |
| Sentences | Prefixes and Suffixes | Word types |
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 learn to count forwards/ backwards in steps of 2, 5 and 10 in order to achieve the award.
Try it!!! Can you do it? You can practise as many times as you like by following the links
English
This half term we will be studying stories with a familiar theme, such as Jon’s football team and Mr Monkey plays football. We will also be reciting and writing our own football themed poems, using a range of descriptive vocabulary.
Take a look at the BBC Bitesize Literacy for KS1 website for some fun things to do.
We use a cursive style handwriting in our school, please try to encourage your child to use this when they are writing at home.
Maths
This half term we will be returning to number and place value, looking at numbers to 100, partitioning numbers into tens and ones and comparing and ordering numbers between 50 and 100. We will also begin learning about money, recognising and counting coins and notes. In addition we will learn about time, sequencing events, recognising dates, telling the time to the hour and half past, writing time and comparing time.
If you have any questions about these areas of Maths please come and speak to me.
Make maths fun by having a go at some Maths games by clicking here.
Topic
Once again Year 1 and Year 2 children will be working closely together and our topic this half term is ‘Who will win?’
We will be learning about football and the World Cup. We will look at countries which have hosted the World Cup and compare them with others.
We will learn about past and current famous footballers both male and female. Creative activities include designing football kits and trophies as well as making trophies with clay.
Topic Homework
We are continuing with our topic approach to homework this year and in addition to their reading book, weekly spellings and maths homework, children must also complete at least 1 homework project based upon our topic. Your child will receive their homework sheet on the first week back this half term.
Topic homework will be shared during our Pride In Our Learning session on Wednesday 18th July 2018 at 3pm. Each of the projects have been designed to allow children to develop their creative and critical thinking skills. Remember that you can work with your child on homework and it’s a fun activity to do with your child. We hope you enjoy completing some of these homework projects with your children.
Other information
Our curriculum page for Year 1 can be found here.
Please provide your child with a labelled water bottle to take outside during playtimes.
We also advise that you ensure all your child’s school clothing is clearly labelled too as well as making sure that your child does not bring toys from home into school. This would be greatly appreciated.
As always thank you for your continued support. It really makes a difference to your child’s learning and if you have any questions or comments please feel free to speak to us at any time.
Miss Smithson & Mrs Drake