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Happy September and Welcome to Year 1!

This year, The Year 1 teaching team will be Ms Hines, Mrs Raymond and Miss Plummer with Mrs Wallace each Friday.
We hope you are as excited as we are!

Year 1 is a fantastic year full of big steps and amazing progress in which your children are becoming independent, curious and excited learners! In Year 1, we continue to build on the very strong foundation they have built thus far in phonics, Maths and English as well as their understanding of the world. We will have a large focus on phonics to ensure your children are ready to meet the level needed for the national phonics screening check in June. We will also develop our reading and writing skills as well as beginning to understand simple Maths concepts like addition and subtraction.

The importance of reading in Year 1:
• Reading is a large part of your child’s journey in Year 1 as they will be utilising their phonics skills to read books. The act of reading will build their knowledge and meanings of words which will support their early writing and language development.
• Your child will continue to be taught phonics daily using The Essential Letters and Sounds scheme.
• In Year 1, your child will read every day in school as part of our pledge to support your child to read. Furthermore, your child will receive a book on a weekly basis based on their reading ability and will read to an adult in school to consolidate and progress their skills.
• We ask that parents read with your child every day for at least 10 minutes to support their reading journey and to document this in their reading record- this will be given to you at the start of the year.

Important Notices:
• All children should arrive to school by 8:55am to start the day and the school day will end at 3:15pm.
• Your child MUST bring in their reading book bags containing their books and reading records EVERYDAY.
• We do provide fruit at breaks time but if you wish, your child can bring in their own snack. However, you can only bring in healthy snacks such as fruits, breadsticks, carrots and cheese etc. Any sweets, chocolate, fizzy drinks etc, will be not allowed in school.
• We have PE every Monday and Wednesday so we ask that your children come to school in their PE kit on these days.
• Library will be on a Thursday so please send in your child’s library book to swap on this day. They won’t be able to take a new book until their current one is returned. If their book has been misplaced, please see Carrie.

Reminders:
• Please provide your child with a water bottle for use through the day.
• Please label jumpers, cardigans, coats, hats, gloves etc, clearly with your child’s name to avoid them getting lost or mistakenly taken.
• If you wish for your child to have milk during break times then please book via ParentPay
• If you wish for your child to attend breakfast/afterschool club/ enrichment clubs then please contact the office.

Homework:
• Your child will be given a pack of Maths, English and other useful activities at the start of the year to do at home. Please read the letter enclosed on the pack for more guidance and information.
• Weekly spellings and Maths will be sent home each week to learn for a test the following week.

If there is information you need, a concern you may have or good news you would like to share, please contact a member of the class teaching team.

Finally, we are looking forward to having a wonderful year filled with memories, friendships and adventures with a great class!

These websites will help us with our work throughout the year.

Computer Circus
Mewan - Primary Place
Sumdog
Multiplication.com
BBC Bitesize (KS1)
BBC Schools
Crickweb (KS1)
Woodlands Junior
Woodlands Junior (KS1)
Primary Games
ICT Games
Primary Safe Search