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 over the last 2 weeks.

We have just completed our first full week in Year 1. The children have continued to settle well, learning any new routines quickly. We have enjoyed getting to know them and finding out what they enjoy doing inside and outside school. Thank you to everyone who managed to make our meeting on Monday. You will find the Power Point we used at the bottom of this page for reference. Please contact us if you have any queries.

Please send named wellies into school this week if you haven't already done so- many thanks.

Remember on Wednesday 17th of September, to launch our Autumn Term Topic, As Far as the Eye can See, we will be dressing up as characters from our class story The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch. The children have lots of ideas and you can find the story on You Tube as a reference.

What have we been learning in class this week?

WB 01.09.25/ 8.9.25

Language, Literacy and Communication	Reading: Assessing new key words, issuing reading books and reading for pleasure book- picture books. Speaking and Listening: News, morning challenge, anti bullying, internet safety, class expectations. POP and Epic planning. Word of the week - Rights Welsh- Morning routines, weather chart, Ffa, la la songs, Slot Drilio Patrwm yr wythnos: Sut wyt ti?
Numeracy and Mathematics	Numeracy baseline assessment
Health and Wellbeing	Daily check in and out. Weekly achievement certificates. No Outsiders- Elmer story- It's good to be different/ Be happy with yourself. Introduce Calm Cwtch and zones of regulation
Expressive Arts	Create a class Elmer-No Outsiders in Sketty School Croeso competition- Where do we come from balloon display. Lighthouse Sea Shanty song
Science and Technology	Internet safety- Buddy the Internet Safety Dog story and song SEESAW- children record their own learning.
Humanities	Introduce topic, As Far as the Eye Can See.

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)	Juno Jones
Positive Values	Bella Verbruggen
Pupil of the Week		-
Cymraeg Award	-	-

Home Learning

Your child has come home with their new reading folder containing their reading book, journal and a reading for pleasure book of their choosing. Please remember to listen to your child read and learn the new key words. 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.

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.

Please send in ALL reading books and folders on a daily basis as we do not have set days to change books and monitor key words and some children may require a little extra reading support throughout the week.

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