Reading books.

Home reading books are chosen by the children from an appropriate level/band.  Year 1 children will be able to change their reading books on the day indicated in their Reading Diary.

Each pupil has a red Reading Diary – it is extremely helpful if you can use these as a means of communication and to record how your child reads at home. Reading diaries are checked weekly. Your comments are valuable.  Your child’s new reading targets will be adhered to the red reading diary each half term.

Lastly, don’t forget to encourage your child to read other types of text at home; comics, age-appropriate magazines or web pages, for example, are all excellent sources of reading material.

Year 1 Spring term curriculum

Literacy
Units include: traditional tales, instructions, recounts and poetry. Occasionally spelling, phonics tasks or words may be sent home. Optional homework – Red handwriting books will be sent home every Friday with a new cursive letter.  These are to be returned on Monday.

Numeracy
Units include: problem solving, 2D and 3D shapes, number bonds to 10 and 20 place value and securing number facts, addition and subtraction, money and real life problems.
Occasionally, maths tasks/games and information about the weeks learning may be sent home. 

RE - Belonging

Music - Composing using voices and percussion

PE - Dance and gymnastics

ICT - The information around us

Creative Curriculum – We are introducing a creative curriculum this term.  This will incorporate Science, History, Geography, Art and DT as well as linking in with Literacy and Numeracy where appropriate.  The children are already excited about our current topic ‘Where’s Wally?’  During this topic we will be learning about a variety of places including the city of Lichfield, so if children want to begin finding out information about Lichfield and what it is famous for, feel free to begin researching.  Thank you to everyone who made a light and dark project, these were excellent.

How you can support your child at home:

• Share books and other literature with them.
• Help with occasional homework.
• Play board games and card games
• Practise counting in 2’s, 5’s 10’s.
• Learn addition facts to 10 and 20.
• Practise doubling and halving.
• Practise cursive writing.
• Know what each digit means in a number.
• Encourage an interest in the world around them.
• Help them to be independent (e.g. dress themselves, including managing shoelaces, buttons etc.) and to be responsible for their own property.
• Ensure all property is clearly labelled (e.g. purses, clothes, water bottles).

Water Bottles
We would like to encourage children to bring a water bottle to school in order to keep hydrated throughout the day.  Bottles should be labelled and are kept in the classroom so that children have access to them at all times.  These should be taken home each day to be washed.

P.E.

1H            -            Tuesday morning
1M            -            Friday morning

– children need in their P.E. bags, white T-shirt, navy shorts and black pumps