Year 1
1st June 2020
Dear Parents,
Thank you so much for supporting your children with their home learning over the past half term. We are now in a situation where we have some children returning to school and others continuing with home learning and when we all return to school is unclear. In light of this, we have changed our approach a little and below is an outline of our learning expectations for this half term whether your child is at home or in school.
TOPIC WORK
Each class has a new topic to study which lends itself well to cross curricular work. This half term however, the class teacher will set tasks linked to the topic which will need to be completed on a daily basis. Instructions and a list of activities are included on your child’s class page.
ENGLISH
Each class teacher will continue to post a video via db primary outlining the week’s English learning. This half term, the children will be expected to complete a daily English task which is outlined on the class learning grid. It is important that your child completes these tasks in order as they are a build up to a final piece of writing
BBCbitesize DAILY LESSONS
For extra work, please visit the ‘Daily Lessons’ on the bbcbitesize website for your child’s year group
READING
We expect reading to take place every day: EYFS-10mins KS1-15mins Y3/Y4- 20mins Y5/Y6 - 30mins
In addition,the children have a weekly reading comprehension task to complete.
SPAG
A Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation task will continue to be set each week. Please be aware that the activity mats include three levels (one star being the easiest). Your child only needs to complete one.
Your child’s year group spelling list will be available on your class page for reference and revision.
MATHEMATICS
During this half term, we would like to consolidate previous maths learning and therefore will be providing revision booklets for the children to complete on a weekly basis. These booklets may include general topics for the year group or may be a specific topic which teachers feel they need to reinforce. Challenge reasoning questions will also be included each week.
Please continue to create a routine for home learning as suggested below:
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Time |
Activity |
Suggested Ideas |
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Morning |
Home learning |
Daily Maths activity, reading and writing tasks Spellings. SPAG |
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Topic work |
Follow weekly set tasks
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Lunch time |
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Help prepare lunch and clean up afterwards Outside Play |
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Afternoon |
Home learning |
DB primary, Times Table Rock Stars, 10 ticks, Suggested websites from Class Pages relevant to each Year group. Write a blog on DB Primary of your day. |
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Quiet time |
Reading Puzzles, Sudoku, word-searches |
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Evening |
Free Time
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Children should continue to record their work either on paper or in a book. They may wish to create a new project folder or book for their cross curricular topic where they can record their work and add pictures and photographs. The children can share their home learning at any time via dbprimary where they can write a daily blog or upload their work, photos and video clips. On return to school, we expect all children to share their completed work.
The children’s communication via dbprimary has been fantastic and it is so reassuring that learning is continuing.
We thank you once again for your support during this challenging time. Please do not feel overwhelmed by our requests but just do the best you can within your family commitments and circumstances.
Kind regards
Hazlemere Staff
Year 1 Topic Work Home Learning- W/B 1.6.20
Year 1 Daily Topic Resources - W/B 1.6.20
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Year 1 Spellings Home Learning Summer
Year 1 Maths Home Learning to be completed W/B 1.6.20
PE
WOW Work
Welcome to Year 1
Welcome to Year 1. Year 1 is taught by Mrs Bartlett.
Meet the Teacher
Recommended reading list Year 1
Supporting Your Child with Phonics and Reading
Sample Phonic assessments can be found under the Parents page, follow the assessment link.
The five key skills taught through our synthetic phonics programme includes the following:
- Learning the letter sounds – children are taught the 42 main letter sounds. This includes the alphabet sounds as well as digraphs such as sh, th, ai and ue.
- Learning letter formation – using different multi-sensory methods, children learn how to form and write the letters.
- Blending – Children are taught how to blend the sounds together to read and write new words.
- Segmenting – this involves children identifying sounds in words so that they have the best possible start for improving their spelling.
- Helping children with tricky words – English contains a large number of regularly used words that don’t follow a phonetic patters. This words are learnt separately, alongside children’s acquisition of phonic skills.
For videos and resources please use the following link
http://www.phonics4free.org/home
http://www.phonics4free.org/phonics-repository
A pronunciation guide for the phonemes can also be found using the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s
A guide for helping parents understand why the pure pronunciation of phonics sounds is so important can also be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2Ddf_0Om8