Year 1
Welcome to Year 1
Information for Autumn 2020
Your teachers are Mrs Leadbeater (Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and Mrs Goncalves (Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays).
Your teaching assistants are Mrs Berney and Miss Forbes.
Timings for the School Day:
Start- 8:40
Lunch- 11:45-12:30 (Play at 11:45 and Eat at 12:10)
Hometime- 2:55
If your child has siblings in school, all children will arrive at the earliest start time and leave at the latest end time (see the table below). Doors will open 5 minutes before for all.
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Foundation & Nursery |
Years 1 & 2 |
Years 3 & 4 |
Years 5 & 6 |
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Start time |
9:00 |
8:40 |
8:50 |
8:30 |
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Lunchtime |
11:45 – 12:30 Eat @ 11:45 Play @ 12:10 |
11:45 – 12:30 Play @ 11:45 Eat @ 12:10 |
12:15 – 1.00 Eat @ 12:15 Play @ 12:35 |
12:15 – 1.00 Play @ 12:15 Eat @ 12:35 |
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Home time |
3:05 |
2:55 |
3:05 |
2:45 |
PE
PE will be on Thursdays. Please remember to send your child to school wearing their P.E. kit and also remove any jewellery, such as earrings, for this day.
As a reminder, PE kit needs to be:
- Black or navy jogging bottoms / tracksuit bottoms
- Black or navy shorts
- A plain white t shirt
- They can wear a black or navy tracksuit top or sports top too
- Appropriate footwear for sport
Reading Folder Day
We will be changing reading books once a week only due to the current Covid regulations. Our reading folder day will be a Tuesday. Please do not send anything into school on any other day.
Homework
A homework menu will be sent home at the beginning of each term. Please complete the tasks throughout the term and send us photographs of things you have made. You can email these to us at tanyal3@churchvale.notts.sch.uk or vicky.goncalves@churchvale.notts.sch.uk. We will look forward to seeing what you get up to.
Home Learning for children currently in isolation
Letters and Sounds
Our phonemes and graphemes this week are:
air
ure
er
Find and practice these sounds using our Time to Read sheets which you can find in the Letters and Sounds section below. These are phase 3 sounds.
Watch these lessons to learn the sounds-
air, ure, er
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81IbEoW_ELU
Our fast words this week are:
we
me
be
Please practice writing them alone and within sentences.
English
In English, we are thinking about the mouse character in our Gigantic Turnip story. To access a retelling of the story find the link below. The mouse is currently missing so can you make a Lost and Found poster to help us find him? Perhaps you can use some words that describe the mouse to help in the search!
Mathematics
In Maths, we are learning to compare numbers, counting one less than a given number and are introducing symbols. Here is the link to the home learning page with helpful videos for the children to watch:
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/week-3/
Find activity sheets in the Maths section below.
Reading
For reading please continue to work on the book you have at home and refer to Oxford Owl website noticing this week's phonemes and working on the children's understanding of the text.
Class Log in:
Username cvy1
Password CVY1
Science
In Science we are exploring our senses and this week is taste. Explore some food at home and complete the sheet below.
Purple Mash
We will continue to provide work via Purple Mash and look forward to seeing the children's progress here! Look for the '2 Dos'.
https://www.purplemash.com/sch/ChurchVale
The Government have set up a website for Home Learning https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/key-stage-1
Please also continue to work from the Homework Menu provided below for the Autumn term.
Y1 Homework Menu Autumn 2020
Maths Sheets
Topic Sheets
Purple Mash
In every child's reading record, there will be a username and password to enable access to the fabulous Purple Mash resources. There are lots of interactive games and programs for the children to use to continue practising many skills that we have learnt in class throughout the curriculum areas. You can access Purple Mash using most devices.
If your child s struggling to understand the current situation this is a nice book explaining all about the Coronavirus in child friendly language by the illustrator of the Gruffalo.
Useful Learning Resources
Oak National Academy
https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom
BBC Bitesize
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
Twinkl Daily Lessons
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/home-learning-hub
English Mastery Units
https://www.englishmastery.org/our-response-to-coronavirus-covid-19/
Fun Science Experiments to try at home
Classroom Secrets free resources
https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/
Teachers Pet Classroom Resources
Carol Vorderman Maths lessons has lots of free resources
https://www.themathsfactor.com/
Spread the Happiness TV is streaming live 'Dough Discos' each day at 9:30 am
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj0shfH3pzhrf3dOrSj_pRw
Oxford Owl has lots of free books to read
Audible are offering free books during school closure
Joe Wickes PE- Joe Wickes is live streaming PE each morning Mon-Fri at 9:00 am
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
Mental Maths Train Game
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train
Shape Patterns game
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns
Twinkl have lots of amazing resources
World Book Online have just made their fabulous collection of over 3,000 ebooks and audiobooks available for free for children to access at home. They have books suitable for all ages. Click on the following link to access them.
White Rose Maths Hub have designed a series of lessons which they are releasing each week. Every lesson comes with a short video showing you clearly and simply how to help your child to complete the activity successfully.
Go Noodle are offering free videos to support physical and emotional well-being. Lots of fun activities the children love to join in with at school.
https://www.gonoodle.com/good-energy-at-home-kids-games-and-videos/
See our Fab Phonics section below for Letters and Sounds activities.
Oxford Owl Reading Books
The Oxford Owl website has an excellent selection of reading books to read at home. There are also accompanying activities too. You can access them from most devices. Our class log in to access these brilliant resources is:
Username- cvy1
Password- CVY1
Fab Phonics in Year 1!
In year 1, we love phonics! We are working hard to learn our letter sounds in our reading and in our writing. We have fun reading 'alien' and 'nonsense' words using our fab phonics to decode the word.
Here are some useful links to support learning phonics at home. Have fun :)
Phases 2 to 5 Sound mats- we are trying hard to know all of these sounds by sight and use these in our writing too!
Phase 2 Time to Read Sheets
Phase 3 Time to Read Sheets
Tricky Words and Common Exception Words
Have a go at reading these real and alien words- what a lot of strange alien names!
Here are some handy letters and sounds links ...
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/zt27y4j
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics
Letter Formation Guides
Topic Work (History/Geography, Art/DT)
This term, our topic is 'We Are Authors'. We will be learning about the 4 parts of the UK and their capital cities as well as exploring some of their famous landmarks. The Authors that we will be studying include Allan Ahlberg, Chae Strathie, Jonny Duddle and Elizabeth Zunon. We will be comparing and contrasting South Africa to the UK and looking at human and physical features. Other facts we will learn include learning the names of the 7 continents and 5 oceans.
In Art and DT, we will be looking at work by the artist 'Paul Klee' and creating our own 'Paul Klee' inspired Artwork and in DT, we will be making some moving pictures.
Year 1 Knowledge Organiser Autumn 1 2020- We Are Authors.
Mrs Goncalves Reads “Zog” for the new Year 1 Class
Mrs Leadbeater reads “Zog and the Flying Doctors” for the new Year 1 class.
Some fun ideas...
