Welcome to Budbrooke Primary School

Year 1 - Elm 2023 - 2024

Miss Thorpe

Miss Thorpe

Welcome to Elm class, 

Year 1 

Our new Autumn topic is called 'Bright Lights, Big City' and has a Geography focus. 

This project teaches children about the physical and human characteristics of the United Kingdom, including a detailed exploration of the characteristics and features of the capital city, London.

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Phonics Screening Check

The Phonics Screening Check will take place in June. To prepare for this please practise reading frequently with your child. Your child should be secure with phase 3 as we are currently working on phase 5. However, I have sent home a phase 3 phonics mat and any your child is struggling with are highlighted in pink. To support them, go over these sounds regularly. I will stick in your child's phonics book our weekly phase 5 sound and words which contain the sound. Please go through them. If you would like to discuss any other ways your can help your child, please let me know and I will be happy to help. 

Some fanastic sites for phonics practise are: 

https://www.youtube.com/@MrTsPhonics

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks

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PE

This term we are lucky to have Onside delivering PE sessions on a Tuesday afternoon. Our PE lesson with Miss Thorpe with then take place on a Monday afternoon. Please could children keep a drawstring bag containing their P.E. kit in school so they can change into their P.E. kit on the relevant days.

Reading and Phonics

Encouraging your children to read from a young age is essential and we will send a reading book and reading diary home for you to explore together.  Please record any reading you have done with your child in the reading diary.  

In year 1, we will deliver daily phonics lessons and we will introduce the children to new sounds as well as new High Frequency Words. Can we please ask that you practise these with your child and encourage them to use them in their writing. The weekly homework will also be based around the phonics sound that we are looking at in class. 

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It is essential for your child's reading and writing that both you and they are pronouncing the phonics sounds correctly. Please click and follow the links below to watch videos to hear how to correctly pronounce each sound:

Phonics Level 2 Pronunciation

Phonics Level 3 Pronunciation

Phonics Level 5 Pronunciation

Maths

This half term, we will be looking at numbers to 50. We will be ordering and comparing the numbers as well as finding one more and one less. To support your child at home, you can encourage them to identify numbers to 50. 

Topic 

If you would like to support your child with our learning related to 'Bright Lights, Big City' then you could do the following:

   -   Read 'Let's Look at the United Kingdom' by Chitra Soundararajan

   -   Read 'My First Book of London' by Charlotte Guillain

   -   Read 'The Great Fire of London' by Liz Gogerly

Homework 

Each week we will send home English or Maths homework. This homework will be based on activities that we have done in class the previous week. 

Homework will go out on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. 

 

 

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