PE– every Tuesday (Class Teacher) and Wednesday (Key PE Sport) . 

Reading books – changed weekly on a Monday in line with the Essential Letters and Sounds phonics scheme. Children will receive both eBooks and hard copies. After reading please place a note in your child’s reading log, this can be a general note to say if they enjoyed their book or if they have struggled with any words.

Spellings – sent out every Friday and to be quizzed the following Friday. Spellings will also be in line with the phonics sounds your child is learning.

Homework – sent out on a Friday, to be in for Wednesday. Homework will be routine key skills such as calculation or writing, it will link to what they have learnt in school.

Awards – Any trophy, medal or certificate can be shown during Special Mention assembly, if brought in on or before Friday.

Class Dojo – our class reward scheme. Children earn Dojo’s for demonstrating good behaviour in class and following the Year 1 expectations. 

• Please label your children’s clothing, shoes and accessories (where possible).
• Please make sure that any water bottles sent in contain water or juice that is ideally low sugar. There are cups available in class for if you forget.
• For children on packed lunches, or those bringing snack, a reminder that we are a healthy school and your child’s snack should be a piece of fruit or vegetable.

 Thank you.

We are continuing to implement Essential Letters and Sounds throughout the school as our phonics scheme.

The Class will take the phonics screening assessment during the summer term.

 Year One phonics screening check documents

Grapheme Mats

We deliver Essential Letters and Sounds as our phonics scheme, therefore our home reading scheme links to this. ELS is a Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) programme which has been validated by the Department of Education,

Reading – The reading scheme/books that we use are produced by Oxford University Press and are linked to the programme mentioned above.

Children are assigned physical books and eBooks from Oxford Owl weekly.

www.oxfordowl.co.uk 

Children have their own individual logins to enable them to access books that have been specifically assigned to them in correspondence with their phonics learning in school. The decodable books provide opportunities to practise the letters and sounds taught that week and/or revise previously taught sounds. 

Below are some examples of the range of books available:

Little Blending Books     Words Sparks    Project X Phonics     Hero Academy     Hero Academy Non-fiction     Alien Adventures              Traditional Tales             Story Sparks and inFact 

However we also have and use matched texts from Oxford Reading Tree, Rigby Rocket, Big Cat and Planet X for our intervention and guided reading schemes.