Year 1: Maple, Pine

Teacher contacts:

Mrs Harris

merrynharris@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Miss Rich

joannarich@stratton.cornwall.sch.uk

Year 1 weekly update – Friday 19^th July

Dear Parents/Carers,

This week in English we have written a guide on ‘How to be a good Cat’. We used adjectives, -ing suffixes and positional language.

In maths, we have been learning about addition, subtraction and place value. The children have been using base 10 to help them compare numbers using the vocabulary ‘greater than’ ‘less than’ and ‘equal to’.

In DT, children have made their own fruit salad by chopping, peeling and preparing different fruits and vegetables. They enjoyed both making them and eating them. We are asking for a small contribution of £1.00 towards the cost of ingredients for this project. This payment is now on the school gateway.

Year 1 Picnic

On the last day, we are planning on having a picnic lunch, hopefully on the field in the sunshine! Children will need to bring their own picnic lunchbox from home, which should include savoury food and fruit. We will provide some sweet treats for everyone to share.

Please remember to email the office if you would like to book a school packed lunch for this day.

Next week

We have a fun few days planned for the children next week. As well as the picnic, we are planning to do some baking, spend some time in the forest area playing games, and fit in as much playing as we can!

Books

As we approach the end of the year, we need any library books handed back into the school library. We will also need any Read Write Inc. books back ready for September. If you still have any school books at home, please return them at the start of next week.

Sending things home

The children will all have a number of things to bring home next week including exercise books, all about me books, wellies, spare clothes etc. We are planning to send everything home on Tuesday. Could you please put a spare bag (carrier bag or bag for life) in your child’s backpack for them to use.

Exercise books

This year, we have decided to continue to use the children's exercise books in their next year if they have several pages left. Because of this, you may find that you do not have as many books coming home as usual.

Good bye to Miss Rich

The last day of term will be Miss Rich’s last day at Stratton! We will all miss her greatly, but wish her the best of luck as she starts a new job in September!

There will be no class update next week.

We hope you all have a fantastic summer holiday and look forward to seeing you in September!

Mrs Harris and Miss Rich