Year 1: Maple, Pine

Teacher contacts:

Mrs Reay

naomireay@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Mrs Harris

merrynharris@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Miss Puckey

claudiapuckey@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Year 1 weekly update – Friday 13^th June

Dear Parents/Carers,

This week, the children completed their Phonics Screening Checks. Each and every one of them tried their best and we are all so proud of the determination they showed. In the afternoons, the children have been learning about the artist, Andy Goldsworthy. They have adventured out to forest school to collect natural resources to help create their very own creation, inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. Next week, the weather is due to increase in temperature. Please can you ensure your child has a water bottle, hat and sun cream for them to reapply at school. Thank you.

Tombola Prices:

The Friends are on the hunt for some lovely tombola prices. If you have anything at home that you think may be suitable, please bring this into school. Thank you.

Homework:

Reading - please read at home 5 times each week and record this in your reading log. Reading logs will be checked every Friday.

Spellings - Spelling homework is to use Little Birds spelling to support spelling of common exception words. Click on the following link to take you to the game https://ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/ Along the top where it says ‘Year’, select number 1 for Year 1. This week, we are focussing on the light green, learning the words: put, push, pull, full, house. Once you have clicked on the house, press go. Your child will get to study the word to see how to spell it and then has to drag the tiles up to spell it. Playing this more than once will help to secure their spelling of the words. Please record in your child’s purple homework book once they have completed their homework. Alternatively, you may like to get them to practise spelling the words into their homework book. We plan to continue with the same spellings for two weeks at a time.

Maths – please play on NumBots for 10 minutes, 3 times each week. Your child has a new NumBots log in which is stuck inside their purple homework book, alongside a letter explaining how to use NumBots. Please support your child to login to NumBots independently so that they can use this skill to practise NumBots during challenge time in school.

Bring a book from home

Each week we will ask a child from each class to bring in their favourite book from home to share with the class. We will inform you through our newsletter which child’s turn it is to bring in their book for the following week.