Magpies  

Welcome to Magpies class page!

Teachers- Mrs Harris and Mrs Cox (Thursdays)

Teaching assistants- Miss Berlie

MDSA- Mrs Heath

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. 

The children now have some 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. Each term, the children will start back on red, but with new words. Occasionally, some spellings will be repeated, if they need some extra practise. 

Thank you for your continued support!

English

This term, our focus text is 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers. The children have enjoyed getting to know the story and can retell it with great expression and enthusiasm. We have made our own penguins which are looking wonderful and are on display in the school corridor! 

We have even had a special delivery. We were so surprised when we opened the box and found our very own penguin inside! Penguin was feeling lonely and needed some new friends. Luckily, he came to the right place! Magpies have done an amazing job of keeping him company and are showing him the ropes in class. 

The children have decided that they would love to take it in turns to bring him home at the weekends. They were worried about him being lonely in school on his own, especially as they seem to have so much fun. We thought this was a great idea, so penguin will be making his way home with someone every Friday. He will bring a book as well if the children would like to include a drawing, photographs or some writing to show the class what they have been doing. 

Maths

In maths, we have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes. The children are fantastic at identifying and naming these shapes and are always spotting them in our environment. At home, you could encourage the children to continue to name and find shapes. 

In the pictures below, Magpies worked in pairs to create 2D using sticks, this was quite a challenge as the shapes got trickier and needed more sides. 

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.