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  • Black History Month

    Published 02/10/24, by Claire Jones
    Following on from Mr Cresswell's launch assembly on Monday, today we had a lesson on Rosa Parks. The children thought very carefully about equality and fairness. We also watched the KS1 BBC bitesize clip about this. You might like to talk to your
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  • Homework Blog WB 30.09.24

    Published 28/09/24, by Claire Jones
    Hello, Another great week for the Puffin Class - we are really stuck into our topics now and have been really excited to learn our new story called 'Monkey See, Monkey Do'. A few bits of housekeeping: *On Tuesday afternoon we will do
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  • Partake payment available and Form to complete for our science tasting - available from tmw

    Published 25/09/24, by Claire Jones

    Hello,

    2 things I wanted to alert you to this week:

    *There is a payment available on arbor for the Partake drama workshop - this is an excellent opportunity for your child to join in with some really fun and engaging history, to dress up and find out about life in London a long time ago. So much so that I think they will think they are in 1666 when the Great Fire happened!

    * Look out for the form that will be sent tomorrow about our science tasting next week. I would like to check everyone is happy with the foods the children are trying so I ask you please to complete this. As best as possible, I have tried to find examples of food tastes in their 'purest' form!

    Thanks,

    Mrs Jones

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  • Homework WB 23.09.24

    Published 23/09/24, by Claire Jones

    Hello! Here is your weekly spelling post

    Please use your homework folder to access logins and passwords for spelling shed and doodle.

    *Please continue to work through the weekly homework tasks in your homework folder.

    *Week 3 of spellings. The endings: /ed/, /er/ and /ing/. The words this week are: hunted, hunter, hunting, buzzing, buzzer, buzzed, jumping, jumper, jumped, cracker Please use the sheet in your homework folder to complete this activity. The new words will be available on Spelling Shed from today to play some games with.

    *Please read regularly with your child and ensure your child reads to you - this really makes a huge difference. Re-reading is super important as well, which is why we only swap books twice a week. If you have the phonic cards at home, we also suggest you could use 8-10 of these to help your child get to know these really well. Mondays and Thursdays are book swap day and in between we hope children are re-reading those books to help them quickly learn the graphemes that are coming up. All books have been swapped today, ready to read at home.

    *Try to complete '5 a day' on doodle and stay in the green zone. Great news, Puffins - you are the top doodlers again this week! That means we have had the most children joining in with daily maths and assignments set.

    Mrs Jones

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  • Homework Post WB 16.09.24

    Published 15/09/24, by Claire Jones

    Hello and welcome to your weekly homework blog.

    Please use your homework folder to access logins and passswords for spelling shed and doodle.

    *Week 2 of spellings. The sounds /l/, /k/ and /z/ spelt like ll, ck and zz. The words this week are: well, pull, full, wall, buzz, fizz, back, stick, flick, pal. Please use the sheet in your homework folder to complete this activity. The new words will be available on Spelling Shed from tomorrow to play some games with.

    *Please complete your weekly 'special homework' activity from your homework folder.

    *Please read regularly with your child and ensure your child reads to you - this really makes a huge difference. Re-reading is super important as well, which is why we only swap books twice a week. If you have the phonic cards at home, we also suggest you could use 8-10 of these to help your child get to know these really well. Mondays and Thursdays are book swap day and in between we hope children are re-reading those books to help them quickly learn the graphemes that are coming up. 

    *Try to complete '5 a day' on doodle and stay in the green zone. Well done Puffins, for a brilliant start with doodle. We are super proud of you!

    Mrs Jones

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  • BASE ONE WELCOME MEETING

    Published 13/09/24, by Jennie Morgan

    Please find attached the PDF to the Base One Meeting from Tuesday this week in case you missed anything or need to refer back to any key information. 

    Any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

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  • Homework & SPellings Post WB 09/09/24

    Published 08/09/24, by Claire Jones

    Hello and welcome to your first homework and spellings blog!

    We had a wonderful first week back and Mrs Morgan and I enjoyed getting to know the children. They are brilliant at keeping tidy and know where their belongings are kept already. Our new cloakrooms have really helped to facilitate a tidy start! Morning activities at tables have been fantastic and the children are already keen to do their best - well done Puffins! Such great Year 1 attitudes.

    At the beginning of each week you will receive a weekly blog outlining the spellings for each week and messages about other things happening in school. Children in Year 1 will have weekly homework and spellings to work on. We will hand out homework folders on Tuesday evening at the 'Base One Welcome Meeting' at 4:45pm. We have organised all of the work for the half-term, but it is not expected to be completed in one go.  We will explain the spellings you will work on each week and those words will correlate to a worksheet within your homework folder.

    All of your doodle and Spelling Shed passwords can be found inside this homework folder so please keep it safe!

    This week is our first week of teaching spellings.

    On Monday we will explicitly teach our spelling rule. Each day for the rest of the week we will continue to work on these so that children can read and spell these words. You will spot that these words mostly link to phonics rules but sometimes are words children just need to learn (like 'the' or 'I').

    Our words this week are words with /f/ and /s/ spelt with /ff/ and /ss/: 

    off, puff, sniff, miss, hiss, less, if, us, bus, yes.

    You will be able to complete the related activity when you have your homework folder.

    Mrs Morgan gave out new books last week and there will be new books again tomorrow. We swap books on Mondays and Thursdays but encourage you to return to books several times so that your child is really secure in their reading.

    We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday at 4:45pm.

    Mrs Jones

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  • Welcome!

    Published 29/08/24, by Claire Jones

    Hello,

    We hope your summer has been wonderful and you are feeling refreshed and ready to start with us in Year 1. 

    We have been in school lots this holiday to ensure the classroom is welcoming, tidy and ready to use and it is all looking smart! We have new displays on the wall, new pegs and boxes in the cloakroom, new trays and tidy book cases!

    Please ensure you have the base meeting in your diary - this is on Tuesday 10th September 4:45pm.

    We will see you next Tuesday where we will show the children into school. The children will say goodbye to you at the door and staff will show them to the cloakroom and classroom. Both myself and Mrs Morgan will be at school each morning next week to welcome the children and settle them into morning routines. Typically Mrs Morgan works Thursday and Friday in class and Mrs Jones works Monday to Wednesday. Our other staff in Y1 are Mrs Neale who works Monday to Wednesday and Mrs Ogilvy who works Tuesday to Thursday.

    As mentioned in our information blog, we will give each child a homework folder in week 2 where all of the spellings sheets, weekly tasks and logins for Spelling Shed and Doodle are kept. We are able to login and see engagement with activities and assess the progress your child is making via these websites. We will set weekly online activities but for doodle, children are encouraged to also login daily to do 5 maths questions a day. We know that children who engage with these resources develop security with maths concepts due to the repetition. These maths questions should be independent for the child to complete and doodle will deliberately set more questions that your child might have got wrong or that they take more time to complete. Homework folders need to be returned at the end of every half-term but should stay at home with you to complete week to week. The activities are short and link into the learning at school to ensure your child gets to work on what we have learnt in class. When you receive your homework folder, you will find it is straightforward to navigate and will really help to focus time you have with your child on school work.

    Please bring PE kits and forest school kits into school next week so that children are ready to join in with all their lessons.

    You can expect a new homework post every Monday where we outline the spellings for each week and remind you about regular reading and homework activities.

    Children will bring home new reading books next week.

    See you on Tuesday!

    Year 1 Team

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  • Autumn Term 1 Information Post

    Published 01/08/24, by Claire Jones

    Hello,

    We are looking forward to welcoming your children into Year 1. We enjoyed spending time with them in July and are excited to work with both you and them.

    Please find below some important curriculum information for the first half-term. This includes:

    *Knowledge organiser for science (Wonderful Me)

    *Curriculum map (outlining all of our learning for the first half term)

    *Spelling words overview

    *Topic homework (to be completed at some point this half term)

    *Maths KIRFs - Key facts we will be focusing on in maths this term and good things to reinforce at home.

    From Year 1, children are given passwords for doodle maths assignments and for spelling shed. We will give those to you in the first week. You will find daily / weekly activities on there to help support learning in school. We also have homework folders for the children which includes a spelling activity for each week and on the back, a short 'special' homework activity. 

    We also have a lovely morning planned with Partake Theatre Company in October. There will be more details and a payment available for you in September for this.

    We look forward to seeing you at the Base One meeting in September.

    Best wishes for a happy (and sunny!) summer.

    Mrs Jones & Mrs Morgan

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  • See you after the summer puffins!

    Published 26/07/24, by Lauren Holder
    Wowzers, what a fun-filled last few weeks the children have had in reception! We have had several treat days (filled with ice cream), have released the butterflies, and have put on the greatest show. We hope you enjoy taking a look through the a
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  • Two Important Messages

    Published 10/07/24, by Sarah Mellor

    Hello,

    The children might have told you about our collecting beans in a jar for a class treat day. With the children's excellent behaviour this week, we collected the final few beans and filled the jar!  To help the children understand how voting works, we gave all children in the class a cube and a choice of three great days they might like.  The day with the most votes was camp/explorer day. Your child can come to school in non-school uniform next Monday (15th July) - we plan to be outside for most of the day, so please make sure that they are dressed in clothes for outdoor play.

    In our school summer production of 'The Greatest Show', Reception are going to be part of the travelling fair.  Please could the children bring in some brightly coloured clothes to join in with this by Monday 15th July. Please ensure clothes (shorts, t-shirt, leotard) come into school in a bag labelled clearly with their name. If they'd like to accessorise with a tutu, headband, wristbands, leg warmers, that would be great but not necessary. We hope this will be easy to gather and will not require you to spend extra money.

    As with the Christmas concert, Reception will go on stage at the beginning of the show. For the evening performances, once they have finished, there will be a short interlude to the concert where children will either sit with their parents at the concert or be collected from the Lime Trees (out of school club) door by their parents.  If your child is attending the performances, and you are not watching, it is important that a parent is able to collect their child as promptly as possible so that staff can get back into the concert to supervise other classes. 

    As always, don't hesitate to talk to us if you have any concerns.

    Thank you for your support.

    The Reception Team

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  • 🌼 A trip to the woods 🌳

    Published 28/06/24, by Lauren Holder

    The Puffins First School Trip

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