DATE: 8/01/16
Dear Parents and Carers,
We welcome the children back to school for the second term of the year and hope you
had a lovely Christmas with your family. We would like to thank you for all the lovely
treats we received for Christmas. The children have settled well in their first week back
and have worked hard. We hope to see your child in school each day
In Numeracy the children will be taking part in multiplication activities. The children will
learn how to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. It would really help if the children could practise
this at home too! They will also learn how to find halve of a number and shape and also a
quarter. In basic skills the children will continue to count and recognise numbers to 100.
We will count forwards and backwards and revisit addition and subtraction problems.
There are lots of ICT games on Primary resources that will help the children.
This term the children will be writing recounts about Christmas. The children are beginning
to use time connectives in their writing- First, Next, Then, After that, Finally etc. The
children will also be listening to tradition tales and thinking of exciting adjectives to
describe different characters. They will also follow and write sets of instructions. During
writing activities we concentrate on sentence structure. The children must use a capital
letter, finger space and a full stop to create a golden sentence!
We encourage the children to use their phonic knowledge to read and write unfamiliar
words.
The science themes this term will be Materials and Seasonal change.
They will continue to explore a range of materials and will develop their
scientfiic skills by participating in lots of fun experiments! As part of
the experiments children will begin to develop their abilities to predict
what will happen verbally, make observations and record results.
During their Computing lessons the children will practise logging on and off.
They will use the mouse to move and place items accurately on a screen, eg
dressing teddy, creating monsters and designing a fantasy picture from a
traditional tale. The children will also play directional games to get from
one place to another. We will also use the I pads during our Maths and
English lessons to play fun ICT games!
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For topic work this term children will learn about Toys in History . They will
talk about their favourite toys and look at toys they played with as a baby. We
will also identify Victorian toys and learn about Queen Victoria and her family.
Children will be given the opportunity to play with old toys too. They will talk
about what they are made of and this will link to our Science and Art topic Materials. In Geography the children will be learning about changes in the
weather. We will also be learning about how we keep ourselves healthy. The
children will continue to answer the register in French and tell us what they
are having for lunch.
Key events and dates
Children break up on the 12th
Feb and return on the 22nd Feb.
Half Term- 15th February-19th
February.
Easter- School closed 25th
March(Good Friday) and Easter
Monday- 28th March.
Children return to school 29th
March.
Health Week- beginning
18thJanuary.
World Book Day – 3rd March.
Open Evening 16th and 17th March
Reminders
Please have PE kits in every day as
we often have extra physical
activity sessions. PE kit consists of
white t-shirt, shorts and black
pumps.
Homework: Friday- English
Tuesday -Maths
Please read with your child every
night and return books to school
each day. We try to change books
that are in school as soon as they
need to be changed but we do not
know unless you write it on the
reading card. Thank you for your
co-operation and continued support.
Please can we ask that you hear your child read regularly and help your child as
much as they require it with any homework received. Phonics play is a great
resource to help your child with their phonics progress.
Finally we would like to thank you for your continuous support. If you have any
concerns over anything please don’t hesitate to speak to a member of year one
staff.
Mrs Tyrer, Mrs Brooks Davies, Miss Thomas, Mrs Wright, Ms Hampson, Miss
Scott
Telephone (0151) 474-3060
www.fazakerleyprimary.co.uk
Fax (0151) 474-3060