4 years ago
Posted on 28th Apr 2020 by Mrs Croft

Being busy in school.

The key worker children that came to school yesterday were very busy. We spent the afternoon outside where John and Tom were in charge of building a stick house. They had the idea themselves and were the foremen for the build. They made sure all the sticks were the right size and that people knew where to put them. They then led a team of decorators. The project was completed on time and under budget. Well done boys!

Nikita made a natural art picture, Oscar and Mrs Mackeen took turns to sing songs by passing the ‘singing stone’ and Jake carefully split open some cherry stones using a rough rock that he found to collect the seeds.

4 years ago
Posted on 28th Apr 2020 by Miss Morgan

Write to us📝

We would love to hear what you have been getting up to, during your time at home.

If you would like to write to us, get your grown up to take a photo of your letter and send it us at year1team@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

Your class teacher will then do her best to reply, during the school hours.

Parents, please look at the checklist to find what your child should be trying to use in their writing.

Checklist:

Beautiful handwriting – tall (t, h, l, b, d…) short (a, c, s, r…) and hanging (g, y, p…) letters
Finger spaces – making sure there is a finger space between each word
Capital letters – capital letters for names and at the start of a sentence
Phonics sounding – using their phonics knowledge to sound/spell words
Full stop – using a full stop at the end of a sentence

Remember, to make your writing more interesting you can use adjectives.

We look forward to seeing your writing!

The Year 1 Team.

4 years ago
Posted on 28th Apr 2020 by Mrs Sixsmith

Emotional Health and Wellbeing

We hope you are keeping safe and well. We know that for some, being in lockdown is difficult. We will try to keep adding resources and information which may help you. Thank you to Miss Slaney, one of our teaching assistants, for working really hard on this.

4 years ago
Posted on 28th Apr 2020 by Miss Morgan

📚Reading Challenge!📖

Good Morning Year 1

Reading is so important for our learning, which is why we have set a ‘Reading Challenge’ for you to complete at home.

Here is your challenge:

Read a funny story😁
Read outdoors🌳
Read to a pet or your favourite teddy bear🧸
Read in your pyjamas💤
Read wearing a silly hat🎩
Read a story that has animal characters🐰
Read your favourite book💕
Read a non-fiction book 🧾

Do you think you can complete them all?

Remember, your teacher would love to see how you are getting on with this challenge. Don’t forget to email us:

year1team@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

Good luck and happy reading!

The Year 1 Team.

4 years ago
Posted on 28th Apr 2020 by Miss Morgan

Keeping in touch💻

Hello Year 1

We hope you are staying safe at home and finding lots of things to keep you busy. The Year 1 team really miss hearing from you, so we have decided to set up a pen-pal system. If you have completed/created any work that you would like to show us – you can now email us at Year 1.

year1team@stgeorgesschool.org.uk

We can then reply to your emails when we are able to do so, during normal school hours. We really look forward to hearing from you all!

Miss Bevington, Mrs Blair, Miss Morgan and all of the Year 1 Team😁

4 years ago
Posted on 27th Apr 2020 by Mrs Croft

Phonics reminder

Good morning.

This is just a quick reminder that the phonics lessons are launched today. All today’s lessons will be available on the link below from 11.30 am.

Please see previous post for further details.

Letters and sounds lessons

4 years ago
Posted on 24th Apr 2020 by Mrs Croft

Phonics

Good afternoon.

We hope you’re all enjoying the sunshine. We wanted to show you a new initiative that is being launched on Monday to help your child access phonics lessons. Every day there will be a new lesson posted online at a certain time. You can then access the lesson whenever you want, with your child at a time that suits you.

There are 3 different levels of lessons released each day.

1-Learning to Blend. This is the lesson to work through if your child still finds it tricky to put together sounds to make a word e.g. b – i – g is big.

2-Reception. These are the lessons that contain the content that your child would be taught during the summer term in Reception.

3-Year 1. These are the lessons that contain the content your child would be taught during the summer term in Year 1. Year 2’s could also do these lessons to keep their phonics knowledge going.

If your child is finding a lesson too tricky, try doing the earlier lesson to build their confidence-its about the children keeping up regular practise and having a go.

Remember there are also the bug club books online to help you keep up with your phonics based reading.

The links below are for the letter to parents explaining more and a link to the channel.

Thank you for all the hard work you are putting in at home with your children. You are all doing a fantastic job. Stay safe.

Letter to parents and carers about online phonics lessons (003)

Letters and Sounds Lessons