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.

We have been busy rehearsing for our family assembly this week. The children have been going over their lines and we have been working on our songs and rhymes. They are very excited to be sharing it with you. Hope you all manage to come- Tuesday morning at 9.30- see you there!

What have we been learning in class this week?

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Language, Literacy and Communication	Reading: Assessing key words, changing reading books, children changing reading for pleasure books from class library. Phonics- Phonics for all programme, children in ability groups focusing on specific phonemes and graphemes. Spelling and handwriting included in these sessions. Writing- making lists- shopping list for Mrs Grinling Speaking and Listening: News, morning challenge. 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- place value, subtraction using tens frame Representing numbers with natural materials. Tally charts Repeated patterns
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 Lighthouse Sea Shanty song Fa la la - Beth sy yn a fasged?
Science and Technology	Top marks maths- Place value basket ball SEESAW- children record their own learning.
Humanities	Fairtrade discussion Create Fairtrade lunch box Pledge- signing our banana and create display

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)	Halo Jones	Belle Mainwaring
Positive Values	Lily Davies	Lily Wilson
Pupil of the Week	Miles Gibbs	Isaac Morgan
Cymraeg Award	Cillian Brosnan Davies	-

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- a number have been doing so this week-they seem to be enjoying these books.

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 working on place value this week- understanding that teen numbers are 10 and some more e.g 12 is ten and two more.

As mentioned on dojo, we are asking for photographs of your child with a Fairtrade product to add to our display. Many thanks for those that have sent them already-they are great.

We have had lots of lovely natural materials from you, thank you so much- we are still in need of pine cones so please keep collecting those for us- thanks!