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Year 1 – 22.03.24
Phonics For our morning tasks, we have continued with our ‘Phonic Detective’ sheets. These lead into our phonics sessions where the children keep looking at the same phonemes/graphemes. This week we have looked at the families: oa/oe/o_e/ow, oo/ew/u_e, au/aw/or, and er/ir/ur. Maths This week we have focused on measuring. We have compared length and Read More
Read newsYear 1 – 15.03.24
Phonics In phonics this week we have revised split digraphs. We have also began to look at sound families which are groups of graphemes that all make the same sound. This week we have concentrated on a-e/ai/ay, ea/ee/e-e/ey and ie/i-e/igh. The children are really enjoying the phonic detective sheets and finding out who the Read More
Read newsYear 1 – 08.03.24
Phonics This week the children have become ‘Phonic Detectives’. A letter with further details was sent home on Monday. As we work through the phonemes, each child will have a chance to become a class ‘Phonic Detective’ and will receive a certificate and a small prize. We have sent home three sheets this week Read More
Read newsYear 1 – 01.03.24
Phonics In phonics this week we have looked at silent letters. We learnt that when a ‘k’ or ‘g’ is followed by a ‘n’ the k and g are silent. We also looked at compound words. We learnt that compound words are two words that come together to make a new word. For example Read More
Read newsYear 1 – 23.02.24
Phonics This week the children have completed a previous phonics screening check. This is to support our knowledge of each child’s current phonics ability so that we can support them to reach their full potential during the official assessment in June. We will discuss these assessments at Parents’ Evening. Maths This week the children Read More
Read newsYear 1 – 09.02.24
Phonics This week the children have revisited the split digraphs: i_e, o_e, and u_e. The focus words this week were: oh and out. Please continue to practise these at home. Maths During our maths sessions, the children have continued to look at addition within 20. The focus this week was doubling. They have worked Read More
Read newsYear 1 02.02.24
Phonics The children have continued to practise the phase 5 phonemes. This week we have focused on: au, ey, a_e, and e_e. We have looked at the tricky words ‘what‘ and ‘when‘. Please continue to practise reading and writing these tricky words at home. English This week we enjoyed the story ‘Katie and the Read More
Read newsYear 1 – 26.01.24
Phonics In phonics this week we have revised the phase 5 diagraphs wh, ph, ew and oe. We have also practised reading and spelling the tricky words were and there. Please keep using the flashcards at home and spending some time on Fast Phonics. English This week in English we spent time finishing our Read More
Read newsYear 1 – 19.01.24
We have had a very exciting week! English When we arrived at school on Monday our classrooms were a huge mess and there were some very large footprints! We found out that a T. rex had visited our classroom! It had left us a letter and asked us to write a fact book! The Read More
Read newsYear 1 – 12.01.24
We hope you all had an enjoyable break. We have had a fantastic first week back! Phonics This half term we will be focusing on the phase 5 phonemes. The children are now recognising most of the phase 5 graphemes and can read words that feature these. We are working on spelling words which Read More
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