Class 1 / Dosbarth 1

Croeso i Dosbarth Un

Welcome to Year One

Gyda Miss Barnsley, Mrs Imran

Autumn Term

Please make sure you arrive at school on time everyday.

School starts at 8.55am and finishes at 3:00pm

Snac

Snack

Please send children to school with a piece of fruit, veg or yoghurt and a reusable bottle of water each day.

Cinio

Dinner

Please ensure packed lunches are healthy. No crisps, chocolate or fizzy drinks please!

If your child is having school dinners, please ensure this has been ordered via ParentPay the day before. You can order weekly if you prefer.

Language, Literacy and Communication

In Year 1 this term, pupils will be focusing on their phonics, ensuring they have a solid understanding of their sounds, including recognising and writing them. Phonics lessons will take place twice a week. This will be Phase 2 and Phase 3 sounds.

Pupils will be working hard to develop their oracy skills and will complete regular activities, where they have opportunities to work in groups to share their ideas with their peers. Pupils will be supported with their reading and comprehension skills through daily GGR sessions.

Mathematics & Numeracy

In Maths & Numeracy pupils will focus on number and place value. They will use their number skills to work out addition and subtraction sums. Pupils will learn how to count in 2s, 5s and 10s.

Pupils will be partitioning numbers into 10s and 1s and solving written number stories.
Pupils will be learning about shape, space and measure, where the knowledge and skills learnt will be used throughout the inquiry.

Inquiry Based Learning

This term our inquiry is called ‘Our Community.’ Pupils will explore their own community, looking at the past and present and exploring how it has changed over time. They will identify similarities/ differences and investigate how human actions and beliefs shape communities as well as identifying places within their community. Pupils will have the opportunity to go on a trip to St Fagans Museum, where they can explore and understand how people used to live many years ago. The knowledge that the pupils gain from this trip will be used to feed into their inquiry in the next few weeks.
At the end of the inquiry, pupils will create a family tree, showing where their family members have come from and the jobs they do. They will then compare this with their peers.

Important days:

Homework is set every Thursday on the Google classroom and is due in the following Tuesday. A video on how to log onto the Google classroom is below.

PE is on a Monday. Please send your child to school in weather appropriate clothing and footwear. Ensure pupils have coats during the cooler, wetter months.

Google Classroom:

Your child has been sent home with a laminated card with their HWB log in on. This is what you will use to log into the Google Classroom so please keep these safe.

Giglets

Giglets is a fantastic tool to support your children with their reading skills. Keep your log in details safe to support your child further with this at home.

www.giglets.com

Duolingo

At the bottom of your Hwb card, there is a log in for Duolingo, you can use this to access weekly tasks to learn the Welsh language.

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