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Year 1

Mrs Eeley teaches Year 1 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs Jowers teaches Year 1 on Thursday and Friday.

We are very lucky to have two teaching assistants working in the class too to help us with our learning. Mrs Pullinger is with us all week and Mrs Lewis is with us in the mornings, Monday to Thursday.

To contact either Mrs Jowers or Mrs Eeley, please email hjowers@cashesgreen-pri.gloucs.sch.uk or

seeley@cashesgreen-pri.gloucs.sch.uk 

Please contact us if you have any questions or worries. We will do our best to answer them as soon as possible.

Term 1 information

Just like in Reception, Year 1s need to bring their school reading book and reading record to school every day. We will be counting signatures for reading certificates on a Thursday and these will be given out in Celebration assembly on a Friday morning. We really work on fluency which means children will read each book 3 times before it is changed. 

Our PE day is on a Monday - children need to come to school on a Monday in their PE kit (including trainers). Every other day, children need to wear their school uniform. Please make sure jumpers, cardigans and fleeces are named because we already have a lot of unclaimed, un-named items.

It is really helpful if children can bring their own waterproof trousers (or puddle suit) for play times and lunch times as we do go out to play in all weather. These are hung up outside the classroom and will also be used for forest school (which we have our first slot for after Christmas). We do have school trousers too for anyone without their own.

All children MUST have wellies in school please. If they do not they have to stay on the playground to play at break time and lunch time when it gets wet. Please make sure they're named as lots of you shop in the same places!

Just like in the rest of the school, please can Year 1 bring their own water bottles to school each day, again, named please.

If the free fruit/vegetables are not enough snack-wise for your child please send in something extra/instead for them to eat at break time. Suitable snacks were listed on the first newsletter for the year which can be found here or please ask Mrs Eeley.

Homework is set every Friday in Year 1. A piece of maths will be on Seesaw and a Phonics sheet will be sent home in a blue folder. This can be returned any day it's been done, but with the deadline of the following Thursday. The login for Seesaw is in the back of each child's reading record.

Term 1 learning

We have a really exciting first term planned for all our new Year 1s. They have already settled brilliantly into their new class and have enjoyed getting stuck in with the different lessons. There's still plenty of time for play, during COOL time (choosing our own learning) children have free choice of how to spend their time, inside or outside the classroom in our own outdoor area.

Here is an overview of what's coming up this term:

Our book is The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

Phonics and Spelling: consolidation of all the sounds learnt so far, especially applying this to our writing. Learning the Chapter 4a sounds. - you'll know which sounds we have done each week as the phonics homework will be linked.

English - using our phonics to write captions, lists and simple sentences, learning how to write the capital letters, remembering a full stop at the end of each sentence, nouns and verbs 

Maths - counting to 10, number facts within ten, shapes and how to tell the time (o'clock)

Science - living things - plants and animals, the seasons (linked to our trip to Westonbirt)

Computing - how to use a mouse and a trackpad - drawing pictures on the screen

PE - 'fundamentals' PE skills

RE - what it means to belong to a community

PSHE - me and my relationships (our feelings, our classroom rules, our friends)

Geography - maps and following a route, using a key (linked to our trip to Westonbirt)

Art - drawing, colours and textures

If you've got any questions please have a chat with us or send us an email.

Here is a photo of our Gruffalo collages we made with Mrs Jowers.