Year 1

Learning Link:

My world: My Community

Mrs Terracotta – mrsterracotta@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Mrs Nardini – mrsnardini@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Year Group Reminders

Week B

Weekly reminders:

Monday: PE kit to be worn by 1T only.

Tuesday: Maths Intervention for 1T. Selected children only. Starts 8.30am. Please try to arrive on time if we have invited your child or let us know if you can’t so we can invite another child instead. Thank you. New spellings to go home today.

Wednesday: Maths Intervention for 1T. Selected children only. Starts 8.30am. PE kit to be worn for 1T & 1D

Thursday: Maths Intervention for 1D. Selected children only. Starts 8.30am.

This week, Space for Me will happen on Thursday due to our school trip. Red Group are invited to bring in a small item that they would like to talk about linked to our learning below. Please can you support your child to be ready to talk about their object in front of the class.

Friday: Alice Holt Trip. Children will need to bring a waterproof coat, sensible shoes for the outdoors, long trousers, and a bag with a packed lunch. We are outside for most of the day. More details to follow early next week.

Any other reminders:

Please make sure your child has a named water bottle and an individual snack (1 piece of fruit or 1 piece of veg) for every day.

Lessons start at 8.50am. Register is taken between 8.30 – 8.50am. School finishes at 3.20pm.

Prayer and Liturgy Bag

When it is your turn for you and your family to use the class prayer and liturgy bag we invite you to write a prayer, reflection, drawing or a photo to show how you, as a family, have used the prayer resources tonight.

We conduct liturgy in school using the four-part structure of: Gather, Listen, Respond and Go Forth. In the information guide you will find some ideas of how you could use the prayer and liturgy bag at home but these are only suggestions and can be used how you wish.

If you received this on a Monday, please return it on Thursday. If you received it on Thursday then please return it on Monday.

Glue Sticks

If your child hasn’t got a glue stick for school please can they bring one in as soon as possible. Thank you.

Reading for Pleasure

1D: Belonging

1T: Little People big dreams, Frida Kahlo

RE

Lesson 1

LQ: Can you learn about the promise of the Spirit and Ascension?

In this lesson, we will share the story of The Promise of the Spirit and Ascension (Acts 1:1-11). We will look at what the word ‘ascended into heaven’ means and make Bubble prayers.

Lesson 2

LQ: Can you celebrate that the Church celebrates the Ascension and Pentecost on special days of celebration (holydays of obligation)?

In this lesson, we will look at the word holiday comes from holyday. Some days of the year are ‘holy days’, when we celebrate these special times in the Church’s year. The Feast of the Ascension is one of these.

We are reminded to put God first on these days. The children will help to set up our prayer focus, make the sign of the cross., read the scripture below and allow time for silent prayer. The children will be encouraged to think about wondering questions about the scripture. We will pray the Glory Be prayer together and sing a hymn about the Holy Spirit. We will close by making the sign of the cross.

English

• Please record all reading in their reading record books.

• If it is a book they have chosen to read for pleasure, record the name of the book followed by (RP). RP = reading for pleasure.

Focus vocabulary this week: capital letter, finger spaces, tricky words, full stop, nouns, proper nouns and adjectives.

Writing

• We will be finishing off writing about Frida Kahlo. We will also be looking at some pictures and having a go at writing some creative stories about the picture.

Lesson 1: To answer a question and explain my reasoning.

LQ: Do you think Frida was brave?

In this lesson, we will give an opinion based on what we have learned about Frida and explain why we think this.

Lesson 2:

LQ: To rewrite a sentence to include an adjective.

We will be looking at improving our sentences by using an adjective. Can we see how this makes it better?

Phonics

SPAG

Maths

We will be continuing on with this unit. We will be looking at capacity. Is the glass empty or full? Can we compare the glasses and say which has more or less? If a saucepan holds 10 cups of milk and 4 cups are poured out, how much is left in the pan? In this unit, children should also understand the difference between volume and capacity. The capacity of a container is the maximum amount of liquid that it can hold, whereas the volume of liquid in a container is the amount of liquid the container is actually holding. This can be less than the capacity.

Science

We will continue to look at trees. We will be collecting leaves and identifying which tree each leaf belongs to. We will also identify some characteristics of the leaf and use these to sort into different groups.

Art

Computing

LQ: Can you explore the toolbar?

In this lesson, I can type capital letters, explain what the keys that I have already learnt about do and identify the toolbar and use bold, italic, and underline.

History

LQ: Can you recognise a change within living memory?

In this lesson, we will understand what ‘change’ means, identify a change that has occurred in living memory and explain how a photograph is an important source of historical information.

French

Music

What is the rhythm of your name? Can you clap the rhythm of a known chant? What does this symbol mean (stick notation)?

PE

Children will start running at varying speeds intentionally and running over obstacles. They will start to develop Jumping, hopping and leaping in

combination and with changing distance. They will start to throw for distance with some accuracy.

Target games

Intro to key throwing skills, overarm and underarm technique is taught with the aim of throwing accurately at a target or zone. Children will also select the correct throw for different situations and change their foot stance independently.

Striking and Fielding

To develop underarm and overarm throwing. Children will learn how to collect the ball and how to get a batter out as well as beginning to keep score.

Learning for Life

We are learning how to take care of ourselves.

Homework

Reading Record books will go home on a Tuesday. Please write all your child’s reading in here.

If it is a book they have chosen to read for pleasure, record the name of the book followed by (RP). RP = reading for pleasure.

Your children will be sitting their phonics screening test in June. Please can you ensure you are working with your child to help complete the gaps in their phonics knowledge. In particular the children are still struggling to spot split diagraphs a-e, (gave), i-e (hive), o-e (love/ cove) u-e ( tune) e-e (these). Keep using your phonics cards to practice your letters and sounds. Also help them spot those split diagraphs when they are reading and keep pointing them out when you see them. This really helps bed in your children’s learning and improves their reading massively. The more we practice the easier it is for them to learn them. Little and often.

Spelling Quiz will be on Monday 12^th May. Please can your child’s Orange Spelling Book be in their child’s plastic reading folder so they can complete their Spelling quiz at the back of this book. Thank you