Welcome to Year 1
25th January 2021
Dear Parents,
Thank you so much for your support with your child’s home learning last week. Teachers are so pleased to see the children’s work being completed and shared and this is a result of your overwhelming dedication, guidance and patience.
As you will see on this page, teachers continue to plan and organise home learning and the instructions and resources for this week are listed. Teachers have also prepared videos explaining the class learning in detail. These videos are available via your child’s login on dbprimary, so please check on a daily basis. It is important that children communicate with their class teacher regularly and they can use the email and blog facility for this. A reminder that children do not have to upload all of their work. Encourage your child to choose 2-3 pieces a week that they are really proud of and these can be shared on their work page via dbprimary. In addition, class teachers may request specific pieces to be sent to them.
Please watch out for links to Mrs Bhabra’s and the Hazlemere Church assemblies. We hope the children enjoyed the opportunity to meet with their classmates this week via zoom. The teachers were delighted to see the children’s faces and to hear their voices. These sharing assemblies will continue on a weekly basis on the same day and at the same time.
Please establish a routine for home learning as suggested below:
Time |
Activity |
Suggested Ideas and times – KS1 |
Morning |
Home learning |
Maths, English, writing, Spellings. SPAG (1hr 45mins) Daily Phonics (20mins) |
Lunch time |
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Help prepare lunch and clean up afterwards |
Exercise |
Outside Play/Exercise activity (1hr daily ) |
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Afternoon |
Home Learning |
Follow Topic Tasks set (1hr ) |
Home Learning |
DB primary, Times Table Rock Stars, 10 ticks, Suggested websites from Class Pages relevant to each Year group. (30mins) Write a blog on DB Primary of your day. |
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Quiet time |
Reading – 15mins (daily) Puzzles, Sudoku, word-searches |
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Evening |
Free Time |
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Wishing you a happy and rewarding week.
Kind regards,
Hazlemere Staff
10am – Reception – Suitable for children who can blend and read words such as ‘fish’, ‘chat’ and ‘rain’ 10:30am – Year 1 – Suitable for children who can confidently blend and read words such as ‘stamp’, ‘chair’ and ‘green’ 11am – Learning to Blend – extra blending practise for children in Reception and Year 1
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: