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.

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. Reading our Tric a chlic books. Phonics- Phonics for all programme, children in ability groups focusing on specific phonemes and graphemes. Spelling and handwriting included in these sessions. Writing- Writing sentences from 'Ar y bws' Speaking and Listening: Welsh- Morning challenge and routines, weather chart, Ffa, la la songs, Slot Drilio, Tric a chlic, Bwyd, Pa liw? Making a giant pili-pala out of natural materials. Patrwm yr wythnos: Faint ydy dy oed di? Ble wyt ti'n bwy? Oes...gyda ti?
Numeracy and Mathematics	Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s Number formation Number facts Doubles Halving
Health and Wellbeing	Daily check in and out. Weekly achievement certificates. Outdoor learning - building bug hotels Outdoor games - practising for sports day SKIP Pupil of the Week
Expressive Arts	Loose Parts Play Mud Kitchen Small World- wild things Fa la la Making a wild thing crown
Science and Technology	Building boats out of recycled materials SEESAW- children record their own learning. Floating and sinking
Humanities

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)
Positive Values
Pupil of the Week
Cymraeg Award		Sophie Costello

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.

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