We hope that you all enjoyed your
Christmas break and we wish you a very
Happy New Year! Thank you for your
generous presents and warm wishes.
Our new project about dinosaurs will be
starting next week (so please keep it a
surprise)! ‘Finding Footprints’ will involve
the learning of dinosaur names and many
facts. We will focus on the features of
different dinosaurs and found out why
they were herbivores or carnivores. We
are sure you will hear a lot about it in the
next few weeks! The children will be
palaeontologists for our Brilliant
Beginning; in small teams they will find
and assemble ‘bones’ and discuss what
they already know. We will also be
discovering different theories as to why
the dinosaurs became extinct.
During literacy the children will be
learning how to use information texts to
research and finally create their own
information booklet about their favourite
dinosaur. Our powerful learning attributes
are Problem Solving and Independence.
This project will provide plenty of options
and choice for the children to encourage
these attributes.
For our Fantastic Finale we would like to
go to the beach for a possible trip and also
invite you into the classroom to see our
Dinosaur Museum. Further details about
this and related homework will be given
out next week.
YEAR 1 NEWSLETTER - SPRING TERM – 1st
HALF
At home you could visit the library to find
non-fiction books about dinosaurs or you
could even visit the Dinosaur Museum in
Dorchester. We would like the children to
watch a couple of clips from films and
documentaries about dinosaurs which are
rated PG. We will ensure that we only
show suitable clips. Please speak to us if
you would like to know more.
Our value for this half
term is Integrity. Please link this value to
the agreement in the home/school diary
and sign it with your child after your
discussion. During circle time we will be
focussing on our emotions and feelings
and relating it to making the right choices
for ourselves and others. We will be
teaching this through the characters of
Little Miss and Mr Men, with a continuing
reflection on friendship and bullying. We
will link this to Judaism and how to
understand and respect other people’s
beliefs.
Adjectives will be introduced during our
literacy lessons. We will be using them in
our sentences to make them more
interesting and ready for story writing
after half term. This will be incorporated
with our project and stories from around
the world.
We will continue addition and subtraction
strategies. Please look at your child’s
homework book to see what stage they
are at rather than moving them on to
something we have not taught them yet.
This will be followed by 2D and
3D shapes and will link with a focus on
patterns and sequencing. Please continue
with number recognition and formation at
home. You could encourage and challenge
your child to add and subtract while out
and about.
We will focus on different
positions and balances in gymnastics,
while using different levels of apparatus.
Please ask your children if they have any
PE kit missing as we have noticed a few
missing socks and T-shirts.
In ICT the children will be learning how to
navigate the keyboard correctly and start
typing independently.
We are very proud of all the children and
their attitude to learning and we look
forward to another successful and exciting
half term.
Miss. Hockey and Miss. Lewis
Yr 1 Teachers