Mrs Porter

Year 1 read to Reception

On Thursday, Year 1 and Reception joined together for a very special afternoon. Over the past four weeks, Year 1 have been writing stories based on ‘It’s My Birthday’ and, once they were finished, were able to go and read their versions to Reception. Year 1 were extremely proud of themselves and all of the hard work that they had put in. Reception were very excited to listen to their stories!

Reception were so inspired by the Year 1s that they had to tell us the story of Mr Wiggle and Mr Waggle. Year 1 agreed that they were fantastic!

Perhaps at the next Sharing Friday, you might like to come and look at all of the children’s fantastic work and effort!

Thank you!

A big, big thank you to all of the Y6 children and parents for your generous gifts, cards and kind words for Baby May. My husband and I are truly grateful. I have promised the children that I will bring her/him in to meet them at some point after Christmas.

I wish all of the Y6 children the best of luck for the rest of year.

God bless.

Mrs May

Y6 Viking Long Ship Day

Y6 Autumn Term 1

What a great start to the year we have had! Below is just a few of the things we have been up to.

Skip2bfit

Sport Day at St Michael’s

Chaplaincy Team

Harvest Food Bank

Head Boy and Girl/ Deputy Head Boy and Girl

Prefects

Y6 Assembly

Y6 Maths Workshop

Today we had visitors in from Explore Learning to complete different maths challenges. The children were engaged and enjoyed debating each other’s ideas about which method was best!

Year 1’s Senses

This week, the children learnt all about our senses and which parts of our body are associated with which sense. For this, the children conducted experiments in a carousel style activity.

Smell The children used smelling pots and had to try and guess what was in each pot. Some guessed lavender and some guessed cinnamon.

Taste The children played a game in which they were given some fruit and they had to use their sense of taste to decide what the food was. They particularly enjoyed this one!

Touch The children were given a bag with different objects in and had to guess what the objects were according to their properties.

Sight The children played ‘Kim’s Game’ with Mrs Ruffell. This involved looking at objects in a tray and memorising them. Mrs Ruffell then took an object out of the tray and the children had to identify which object was missing. They were very good at this one!

Sound One child came into the middle of the circle and had to shout, “Stop!” The child who was holding a puppet had to say something and the child in the middle had to use their sense of sound to identify the child.

Year 1’s Learning

Another week has flown by in Year 1!

During maths, we looked at number bonds and discovered that numbers can be ‘split’ in lots of different ways. The children have all used their manipulatives (cubes) really well to show this and have quickly moved onto pictures to show their thinking. Super work!

Our current computing topic is about programming toys and today, we looked at what an algorithm is. The children learnt that it is a set of instructions and, when these instructions are put onto a computer, this is called programming. The children used all of their learning from geography to direct their friends around the dining room, using words such as left, right, forwards and backwards.

Next week, we will begin our new RE topic and information about this will be put onto the blog.

Have a lovely weekend! 🙂

Mrs Teixeira

Year 1’s Week

Another wonderful week was had in Year 1 this week! The children completed their poems about noises around the school and then performed them to the class. I was extremely impressed with the way in which the children spoke confidently and clearly. I am sure that they are looking forward to sharing these with you at the next Sharing Friday!

Thank you for all of your support in home reading. I have been reading your comments and it is extremely encouraging to see how much is being done at home.

Each morning, I will ask different Guided Reading groups to change their books and they will therefore need their books out of their bags and will need to put them on my chair. If you could please remind the children of this on their particular day and, if you are unsure of their group, they know them. The timetable for this is as follows:

Monday Group 5

Tuesday Group 1

Wednesday Group 2

Thursday Group 3

Friday Group 4

Alongside home reading of their school book, could I please ask that the children continue to practise their High Frequency Words which were sent home last year from Reception. If you do not have them, then please send a note in with your child and I can get some sorted for you. It is important that the children are able to sight read these words as some are ‘tricky’ which cannot be sounded out with phonics. Short, snappy testing of these words each day will really help the children’s reading and writing!

Autumn

Today, we started to look at the months of the year and the seasons. The children understood that we are in September and that the season is autumn. In order to support this learning, could the children please look for some signs of autumn over the weekend (dry leaves etc) and bring some in to share on Monday.

Have a lovely weekend and thank you for all of your support!

Mrs Teixeira 🙂

Our Week in Year 1

Year 1 have had another brilliant week!

In our Maths lessons this week, we have continued to secure our understanding of numbers up to 10, thinking about which words we can use to compare numbers. The children learnt lots of new vocabulary such as bigger than, more than, greater than, smaller than, less than, fewer than, the same amount as, equal to and as many as. It would be great if you could continue to use these words at home so that the children become more familiar with them.

In our English lessons, we started to look at what shared writing is and completed a piece together. As a whole group, we planned and wrote our own version of Gervase Phinn’s poem ‘Noises Off’ using sounds from the dining room.

Ongoing home learning

Can I please ask that the children learn how to do their ties and top buttons over the course of the next week as these are the pieces of clothing which cause the most trouble to the children!

Additionally, can I ask that the children are encouraged to get ready as quickly as they possibly can at home as our PE lessons are currently being cut short by some time to allow for extra changing time.

Y6 Parent Meeting

Parent ‘Meet the teacher’Download

It was so nice to see so many of you at the ‘Meet the teacher’ this morning. Please see above the presentation that was shared and includes key information about the year ahead, including diary dates.