Category: Year One

At St Matthew’s each class has a ‘Faith Champion’. This is an important role within our school where the children have the opportunity to share and uphold our school values through a variety of responsibilities. Some of the things a Faith Champion might do are:

• Be on the lookout for children following our school values (award certificates)
• Have meetings to share their ideas
• Sell angels/items to raise money for Kibera
• Be a part of an assembly
• Be a faith ambassador for St. Matthews
• Take photos, be on the lookout for examples of Friendship, Discovery and Prayer
• Be a prayer warrior for their class

Today your child took home a letter explaining what they need to do if they would like to apply to become the Faith Champion for our class. I have also attached the letter below:

Faith Champion

All applicants must be in by Friday 16th October. Please note that this is optional, your child took home a letter because they showed interest.

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

This week we have written a set of instructions to teach people how to make Bob’s favourite cucumber sandwich.

During this half term we have been learning about a Christian baptism.

On Friday we went to St Matthew’s Church where Mother Helen reenacted a baptism to show the children what happens during the service. Thank you to Mother Helen for inviting us and to Father Alastair and Janice Price for helping us walk the children to the church.

This week we have been reviewing the following sounds:

ou (shout, out)

and reading CCVC words (consonant, consonant, vowel consonant ‘stop’).

Attached is the link to the Spelling Shed for the children to be able to revise these sounds and words: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

Next week we will be starting our new core text ‘Sidney, Stella and the Moon’

We will then be writing an information page about the moon.

We hope you have a restful weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon  🙂

This week we have been learning how to write a description of a setting. Bob had landed on a strange and mysterious planet and needed our help in describing what he could see. We thought of adjectives to describe this unknown setting. We then wrote these descriptions as sentences in our books.

In maths we have been  learning how to compare numbers and amounts using the mathematical symbols < > =

In science we learnt about see through and not see through materials.

We then used this knowledge to  select the best material to create a shadow puppet.

This week the children took home their weekly reading books. The books will need to be returned on a Wednesday so that the children can take home a new set on Thursday. Please see the attached letter explaining how books are distributed in KS1.

Book letter to parents

In phonics we have been learning the following sounds:

air (fair, stair)

ir (bird, girl)

or (for)

There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

There is also a maths challenge for the children to play where they revise their number bonds to 10.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

This week we have been making information pages writing about Bob and his job as ‘Man on the Moon’. We described his uniform and the important tasks he has to complete.

In maths we have been learning how to count forwards and backwards. We have completed number sequences as numerals and pictures.

In science we have continued learning about different materials and their properties. We helped Bob who needed some new items for his rocket. We told him which material would be best for a: chair, waterbottle, bookshelf and window by describing their properties.

In phonics we have been revising the following sounds:

oo (zoo)

igh (high)

ow (snow)

There are words containing these sounds for the children to practise available on the Spelling Shed website: https://play.spellingshed.com/#/login

Next Wednesday the children will take home their weekly reading books and reading log. The books will need to be returned on Wednesday so that the children can take home a new set on Thursday. The children will be given a ‘learning to read book’ for them to read to you. This book will have a sticker in the corner. They will also receive a ‘reading for pleasure’ book.  This book is to be read to or with the child and will not contain a sticker on the cover.  The reading log is an opportunity to encourage the child and ensure that they are reading on a daily basis. Any comments regarding the child’s reading will be looked at as we change the books.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Luetchford and Mrs Sharon 🙂

Plan Wednesday 15th July Home Learning

Phonics Review Sounds Wednesday 15th July

English Passport to my new class

Maths Review learning position and direction

Art 

George’s potion-

BFG Dreamcatcher-

Moving picture-Levers and Sliders