Year 1 News
Friday 5th June 2026
We enjoyed our Sports Day practice on Monday. Unfortunately our Sports Day was postponed but we look forward to this later in the term.
Our P.E day will continue to be on Tuesday this term.
This Week:
In maths, we completed our topic on ‘Position and Direction’. We revised quarter, half, three quarter and full turns. We recorded sequences of movement and programme them using the Beebots. We began our topic on place value to 100. We counted and ordered numbers, forwards and backwards, from 50-100.
In phonics, we revised all of our Year One sounds, through a range of activities.
Spellings: We revised our Year One Common Exception words.
In English, we wrote words and sentences using the Year One sounds and the Year One Common Exception words. We continued our daily handwriting activities.
In science, we continued to monitor the growth of our marigold plants. We continued to identify the plants and flowers in our school grounds.
In geography, we learnt that hot places are located near to the Equator and cold places are located further away from the Equator.
In P.E, we had our Sports Day practice.
In PSHE, we recognised and use simple strategies for preventing the spread of diseases. We designed a poster to tell people about the importance of washing their hands.
Next Week;
Next week is our Phonics Screening Week. The children have worked really hard for this. I will administer the screening in a quiet room with each child throughout the week. They have practised many past screening papers, so the format will be familiar to them. Thank you for all your support with helping them to learn their sounds.
In maths, we will continue our topic on place value to 100. We will continue to order numbers, forwards and backwards, from 50-100 and we will partition these numbers into tens and ones. We will use a number line to 100 and we will find one more and one less than any number.
In phonics, we will continue to revise all of our Year One sounds, through a range of activities.
Spellings: We will focus on the split sounds a-e and e-e.
In English, we will continue to learn about adjectives. We will study a new text. We will continue our daily handwriting activities.
In science, we will identify and describe the main parts of trees.
In geography, we will identify the different types of settlement.
In P.E, we will continue our athletics activities.
In PSHE, we will recognise that learning a new skill requires practice.
Important things to remember:
Reading Books:
Please bring your reading book and home school contact book to school every day. The children read their books in school, so please can they bring their books in daily. On Fridays they enjoy reading with Year 3. Thank you.