Year 1 - Blwyddyn 1

Welcome to the Year 1 Noticeboard

Croeso i hysbysfwrdd Blwyddyn 1

We hope you find the following information and photographs useful for keeping up to date with what is happening in your child's class.

Croeso! Welcome to our Year 1 Class Page – Here's what we've been up to this week.

It's a magical time of year in Year 1 as we dive into the Christmas festivities! The children have been busy practicing for our Born in the Barn sharing, filling the classroom with songs, smiles, and lots of excitement. We've also been hard at work creating beautiful crafts for our Christmas market.

What have we been learning in class this week?

WKB 20.10. 25

Language, Literacy and Communication	Reading: Assessing key words, changing reading books, children changing reading for pleasure books from class library. The Nativity Phonics- Phonics for all programme, children in ability groups focusing on specific phonemes and graphemes. Spelling and handwriting included in these sessions. Writing- making their own versions of The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch - Independent work Speaking and Listening: News. Christmas sharing practice. Lighthouse timeline discussion Welsh- Morning routines, weather chart, Ffa, la la songs, Slot Drilio, Tric a chlic Patrwm yr wythnos: Sut wyt ti? Pwy wyt ti? Sut mae'r tywydd heddiw?
Numeracy and Mathematics	Winning With Numbers scheme- one more than and 10 more than Representing numbers with natural materials-place value Subtraction using tens frame Repeated patterns Counting to 100 Days of the week Number formation JIT-block graphs of Bracelet Bay traffic survey data Venn Diagram to compare Bracelet Bay and Tycoch 1 more than 10 more than
Health and Wellbeing	Daily check in and out. Weekly achievement certificates. Outdoor learning Outdoor games - SKIP Pupil of the Week
Expressive Arts	Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch role play Loose Parts Play Mud Kitchen Small World How to draw a penguin...getting into the Christmas festivities
Science and Technology	Top marks maths- Place value post the letter SEESAW- children record their own learning. Block graphs on JIT using Bracelet Bay data Annotated design for Diva lamp
Humanities	Diwali celebrations Story of Rama and Sita Comparing Bracelet Bay and Tycoch-Venn diagram Discussion and activity linked to Black History Month Sammy The Seagull- whole school assembly on recycling batteries Lighthouse timeline

Weekly Achievements

Each week during assembly, we present certificates for Good work, Positive Values and speaking Welsh. The children give compliments to the Pupil of the Week.

This week's award winners:

	Year 1 KP/SG	Year 1 HC
Gwaith Da (Good Work)	Bella Verbruggen	Jasper Li
Positive Values	Ella Hutt	Lucas Norumbuena
Pupil of the Week	Charlotte Evans	Chloe Quint
Cymraeg Award	Olivia Heron-Lock	Belle Mainwaring

Home Learning

Thank you to everyone who is managing to record in the reading journal each week- we really appreciate it. Your child should have a new reading book each week. It is the children's responsibility to change their reading for pleasure picture book when ever they are ready.

Please remember work on key words as well as the reading book. Key words are so important. Write them on post-its- stick them everywhere and refer to them throughout the week- not just reading time, it all helps.

And remember don't feel you have to read the entire book in one go. You could read alternate pages if that helps- it keeps the pace of the book going and you are modelling as you read.

At the moment we do not have set days to change reading books (may change in the future) so please send in ALL reading books and folders on a daily basis.

There is no need to send in the picture book each day just return it when you are ready for another one and the children can put it back in our library and choose another.

If you know your child needs work on number and letter formation this can also be reinforced at home. We find different pens and writing materials can be a way in with this. They could practise writing their key words each week too. Little and often is the key.

In Maths you could reinforce what we are doing each week as well as bringing number into everyday life such as counting, telling the time, measuring, recognising numbers out and about etc

We have been looking at subtraction as a focus this week. We have been doing practical work where the children having being laying down objects to represent a number then taking away an amount to see what is left.

You are welcome to bring in the children's costumes for the sharing next week. Please label the clothing so we know it is theirs and put it on a hanger.

The children will also be going on the cinema trip next Tuesday.