Welcome to Year One!

 

Welcome to Year One!

Hello!

I hope you have all had a wonderful summer break. I’m very excited to see some of your familiar faces and meet some new ones this September too!

We will continue to use Tapestry in Year One. Owing to the nature of the Year One curriculum, there may not be as many photos/messages added to the page, but we will keep you updated with the bits and bobs we’re doing in class and any key messages. If you’d like to get in contact with me, please use Tapestry to do so.

Hopefully, you have seen the email from the office regarding drop-off/pick-up arrangements. I have moved into the spare Reception classroom so it will be the same drop-off and pick-up arrangements as last year. Both Miss Tims and I will be on the gate tomorrow morning.

To give a little more information about Year One, I will be holding a ‘Meet the Teacher’ session on Thursday 11^th September, 5.00-5.30pm. This will be held in my new classroom. Please come through the usual drop-off gate.

This half term, we will be learning about journeys and exploration in English. We will be using ‘Naughty Bus’ and ‘Astro Girl’ to do this. We will be focusing on place value and addition/subtraction within 10 in our Maths lessons. Humans and our senses will be the key focus for our Science lesson and we will be exploring the history of toys in History. In Art, we will be learning about Kandinsky and doing lots of painting. Although we will be learning within ‘subjects’, our plan is to continue with a Reception style of teaching, especially in the afternoons and gradually, we will become more ‘formal’.

We will have very similar break and lunch times to Reception so they will already be familiar with these routines. We have fruit/vegetable snacks available for your child at break time. If they are particular about what they like/dislike, they are welcome to bring their own snack, but it must be a piece of fruit or a vegetable. In addition to their snack, please make sure they have their water bottles with them.

Please can you also bring in art aprons/shirts/old tops for your child. We will keep these in their lockers ready for our messy lessons. In addition, we will have P.E lessons on a Wednesday and Thursday this year. Please can children come to school in their P.E kits on those days. There will be no P.E tomorrow, so usual uniform please.

We’ve had lots of lovely weather this summer but I’m sure rain will be on the forecast. During rainy weather, we ask that children put on their wellies/waterproofs, so please make sure they have these in school. They will be playing outside in lots of different weathers.

 

To sum up the above, please ensure your child has:

• Fruit/veg snack (if they do not want the one provided)
• Water bottle
• Something to wear for messy play (apron/old shirt)
• Wellies/waterproofs
• Bookbag (we will start Little Wandle books next week)

 

Mrs Jeary and I are really looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! :)