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.

Another great week in Year 1. We have been celebrating the start of Fairtrade Fortnight with a discussion and pledge. the children loved signing our large inflatable banana and have already started spotting the Fairtrade Logo around their homes and in the shops.

We have also been preparing for our family assembly and they are excited to share what we have been up to so far this year. Using the laptops to create block graphs of our traffic survey data has been a high light this week- the children worked brilliantly with a partner using the JIT programme.

Please remember to complete the parent/teacher meetings form- we will let you know your time slot ASAP.

THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER- NATIONAL POETRY DAY- DRESS UP AS A BOOK CHARACTER

What have we been learning in class this week?

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Language, Literacy and Communication	Reading: Your child has come home with a new book. They have been given 2 keys words to learn for this week. We have been reading Welsh Tric a chlic books together. Phonics-we have started our FFT phonics programme working on letter sounds, oral blending, reading, spelling and letter formation. Writing- Shopping lists for Mrs Grinling focusing on how to set a list out, letter formation and how to use a word mat. Speaking and Listening: Discussions linked to our Fairtrade, our morning challenge and news. Welsh- Morning check in, incidental Welsh, daily weather chart, Ffa, la la songs, Slot Drilio, Tric a chlic phonics and stories. Patrwm yr wythnos: Pwy wyt ti? Sut wyt ti? Sut mae'r tywydd heddiw? Beth wyt ti'n hoffi bwyta?
Numeracy and Mathematics	Daily Winning with Numbers Counting songs Number formation Creating block graphs to represent data.
Health and Wellbeing	Daily check in and out. Weekly achievement certificates. Outdoor learning - building lighthouses in the woodlands.
Expressive Arts	Loose Parts Play Mud Kitchen Sea shanty Fa la la songs Paper plate seagulls Fairtrade lunch boxes
Science and Technology	SEESAW- children record their own learning. JIT- creating block graphs of traffic survey data.
Humanities	Fairtrade Fortnight-discussion and pledge

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)	Elias Rees	Heidi Williams
Positive Values	Kitty Davies	Tykhon Shevchenko
Pupil of the Week	Adenola Ologbenla
Cymraeg Award	Max James	Elsie Gough

Home Learning

Thank you for your commitment to help your child read at home. We are really grateful and definitely appreciate the comments we have received.

Please remember to 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