Ribbleton Avenue Infant School
Doves
Welcome to Doves Class!
Year 1
Hello and welcome to Year 1, My name is Mrs Finnigan and we have Miss Slee and Mrs Ravat as our teaching assistants.
Reading
In order to help us become really good readers, we like to read to our grown ups at home as much as possible. We can change our reading books on a Monday, Wednesday and a Friday. Please make sure that our reading records are filled in and signed when we have read our books, so that our teachers know that they need changing. When our books are ready to be changed, we hand them in to our teachers when we come into school in the morning. It is really important that, as well as reading the words in the book, we talk about the pictures and answer questions about the story.
We love reading to ourselves and each other in our class book corner.
PE
In the Doves, we will be having PE lessons every Tuesday and Thursday. We like to make sure we have our PE kits in school and that they are fully named as we sometimes get them mixed up! Please make sure that earrings are removed on PE days if you can so that your child can fully take part in the lesson.
Computing
In our weekly computing lessons we will use Purplemash we are learning to log on and off safely and find are own work page. We will also learn about technology in the wider world.
Themed learning
Please see the matrix overview for full details and information about what the children will be learning in each subject this half term.
Learning Overviews
Homework
Homework will be set each week, based around the learning in class. This homework will be set in homework books. Homework will usually be set on a Friday. Please ensure that homework is completed and brought into school in the homework book before the following Wednesday.
Phonics
Phonics is so important as it supports your child's reading and writing. We do daily phonics sessions to help your children to use their blending/ segmenting skills to read and write words correctly. Furthermore, we then encourage your children to apply this knowledge in all of their other subjects.
In June, every year 1 child will sit the 'Year 1 phonics Screening'. This purely tests your child's ability to use their phonics to read words. Some of the words will be real words but some of them will be made up - so they must be very careful to make sure they don't try to make the 'alien' words sound like a word they already know. For example if the word was 'sike', it may be very tempting to say 'spike' - however, this would be incorrect. It is very likely that your child knows or will soon know more than one way of spelling the same sound. For example 'ai' - can be spelt as 'ai', 'ay, 'a-e' or 'A' e.g 'play' 'paint' 'make' 'Amy' which can be very confusing. To try to help you to support your child with their phonics at home, below you will find some examples of real/ alien (not real) words which contain the sounds which we learn in phonics.
Please use this link to play 'buried treasure' so that your child can practise reading lots of words:
Next, click on 'free' and select the correct phase for your child. Then your child can play on the 'buried treasure' game or the 'obb and bob' game.
Important Dates
Autumn 1
Tuesday 2nd September - School Reopens
Tuesday 14th October - Parents Evening
Wednesday 15th October - Parents Evening
Friday 24th October - Diwali Day (children can wear own clothes)
Friday 24th October - School Closes for half term
Autumn 2
Monday 3rd November - School Closed for Inset Training
Tuesday 4th November - School Reopens
Wednesday 5th November - Guru Nanak Birthday Assembly/Celebration
Friday 14th November - Children in Need Day (wear yellow/spotty clothes. £1 donation)
Monday 1st December - Year 1 and 2 Pantomime in school
Thursday 11th December - Christmas Jumper Day & KS1 Sing Along
Wednesday 17th December - Christmas Dinner Day
Thursday 18th December - Party!
Thursday 18th December - School Closes
