Magpies  

Welcome to Magpies class page!

Teachers- Mrs Harris and Mrs Cox (Thursdays)

Teaching assistants- Miss Berlie

MDSA- Mrs Heath

Welcome back!  

We cannot believe that we are already in the second term of Year 1! The children have come back full of enthusiasm and confidence. 

PE will be on a Tuesday afternoon with Mr Cooke and a Friday morning with Mrs Harris. Please can the children have a named PE kit in school. 

This week, the children will bring home their new spellings to learn. These are attached to their reading record. Please can they practise at home. We will begin to informally test them next week and once they can spell all 5 words, they will be given the next set. 

We are going to be starting our history unit all about toys! Please can the children bring in their favourite toy on Wednesday 6th November to show in our history lesson in the afternoon. Please nothing too big, expensive or precious. 

Thank you for your continued support!

English

We are learning to write labels, lists and captions. The children have been fantastic at using their phonics carefully to label lots of different pictures and objects.....including Miss Berlie!

Local walk  21/10/24

In Geography, we have been learning all about our school grounds and local area. We have been looking at maps, routes, where we live and human and physical features of the area. The children have really enjoyed being geographers and are fantastic at spotting geographical features.

We went on a local walk to post our post cards in the post box. We talked about the different directions that we were going and spotted human and physical features as we walked. As Magpies have had such a wonderful first term, we ended our walk with a visit to the park. 

Walk Safe 20/9/24

Magpies had a fantastic morning, taking part in 'Walk Safe'. We begun by carefully looking at scenario cards and discussing the ways that we can stay safe as we walk around. The children were very knowledgeable and were  confident to share what they already do! Then, they practised crossing a zebra and puffin crossing. The children took it in turn to be cars and pedestrians.  The pedestrians were very safe and all managed to get across safely (you may need to watch out for some of our drivers in the future though!).

Home learning

On 11th October, the children will begin to receive weekly home learning. Every Wednesday, they will bring home their green home learning books and they will be due back in on the following Monday. Term one's home learning activities are shown below. On the left is the weekly activity which is linked closely to our learning and on the right are extra things that you could practise at home.  

Phonics screening check

Children in Year 1 throughout the country will all be taking part in a phonics screening check during the same week in June.

Please see the link below for information and here are some resources that you might like to try at home! Please let me know if you don't have access to a printer and would like them.