This week we will be settling the children back into school and talking about the routines and class rules in Year 1.

Our English and Art focus for the start of this term is the book ‘The Artist’ by Ed Vere. This is a picture book about the adventures of a brave little artist who goes on an epic journey to share her creativity with the world. It’s a journey that reminds us that it’s okay to colour outside the lines and that “Art is full of heart!” This week we will be looking at the illustrations at the start of the book and describing what we can see.

As a school, we follow the Twinkl Phonics scheme and this week we will be revisiting the phonemes that the children learnt in Acorn class and checking which letter sounds the children can remember.

Our first Maths topic this term focuses on the numbers from 0 to 10. This week we will be sorting objects into groups and practising accurately counting objects in a group.  

In RE, we will be talking about our key question for the term “What do Christians believe God is like?”  

In Science, we will be starting to talk about everyday materials, such as plastic, wood and metal, and will start to find objects made from these materials.

Willow Class will have PE on Thursday morning this week. Please make sure that your child has their full PE kit at school.

We will start to send out reading books from Thursday this week. Ideally, all children in Year 1 should be reading at home for at least 10 minutes each day. Please record details of any reading your child does with you at home in their reading record book and let us know when you have finished a book by noting that in the reading record as well.  We kindly request that book bags and reading records are brought in to school every day for the next few weeks.

If you have any questions or need help with anything, please contact us using the class email address (willow@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk).

Best wishes,

Mrs Pring and the Year 1 Team