Y1 Walton

Welcome to Year 1JW!

Your teacher is:

• Mrs Walton

Your teaching assistants:

• Miss Green - every day
• Mrs Chaisty - Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning
• Mrs Crompton - Monday

Please ensure all school uniform including PE kits and shoes are clearly named. 

PE this term will be on Monday (Street Dance) and Friday please ensure PE kits are in school - a white T-shirt, black shorts, tracksuit bottoms or leggings and pumps or trainers. 

Reading books

Reading books will be changed every Wednesday.

Please read with your child every night and talk about what is happening in the story.

Homework

Homework is given out on a Tuesday and needs to be handed in on the following Monday. Spelling tests will take place on Monday.

Snack

Fruit will be available each morning for a snack. If your child wishes to have milk there is a charge of 15p per day, this can be paid daily/weekly or termly,

Dates for the diary

• Parent's Evening: Wednesday 4th March and Thursday 5th March

• Science Week:  Monday 2nd - Friday 6th March

• Dress like a scientist day: Tuesday 3rd March

• Broomwood World Book Day: Wednesday 18th March

• KS1 Blackpool Zoo Trip: Thursday 26th March

• Spring Disco: Wednesday 22nd April

As Mathematicians this term we will be learning about place value. We will be: 

• Looking at numbers to 50
• Tens and ones
• Representing numbers to 50
• One more and one less
• Comparing objects within 50
• Comparing numbers within 50
• Ordering numbers within 50
• Count in 2s 
• Count in 5s.

As English Readers and Writers this half term we will be exploring the the story of Toys in Space. We will use our topic of the Circle of Life to inspire our writing. We will be:

• Revising Set 4 and 5 sounds in phonics
• Revising alternative letter sounds
• Practicing letter and number formation as part of handwriting
• Sequencing events from a story
• Acting out different scenes and exploring what each character is like
• Writing sentences using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.
• Applying our phonic knowledge to sound-out and blend to read and write words.
• Applying the suffixes -ing and -ed using spelling rules.