Welcome to the Nightingales!

Our teacher is Mrs Lingard and we have helpers through out the week - Mrs Harrison, Miss Benson and Mrs Bhatan.

We are a Year 1 class.

In the event that your child is self-isolating or we have a class closure, work will be uploaded to Seesaw for your child. Please ensure that you are able to log in and access the activities. If you have any problems please come and speak to me or contact the school office by phone.

English

In our English work this half term we will be learning how to::

• Talk about and tell the story of Billy's Bucket.
• Write our own story based on the story of Handa's surprise.
• Follow, sequence, read and write instructions.
• Learn a poem and recite it to our class.

In addition to daily English lessons, the children will also take part in daily phonics lessons and group reading activities.

We also have handwriting lessons every week where we are learning to form our letters correctly. 

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.

In addition to the reading books that we send home we would like all children to access the 'Big Cat Collins' reading books. The details to log in have been sent on your child's Seesaw. The books have been carefully selected to match your child's phonic abilities.

Maths

In our Maths lessons we will be:

• learning to count, recognise and order our numbers.
• learning to solve simple additions.
• learning to solve simple subtractions.

The reception children will be working on learning all about the numbers to 10.

PE

In the Nightingales, we will be having PE lessons every Thursday and Friday. Our coaching sessions will be on a Thursday.

Science

In our science lessons we will be investigating the spread of germs. Later on in the half term we will be learning all about the plants and trees around school.

Computing

In our weekly computing lessons we will be learning all about how to log in to the computers and create, save and retrieve our work.

Themed learning

Our Autumn 1 theme is 'Bucket and Spade'. In our Geography lessons we will be learning all about the seaside and the different geographical features. We will learn all about maps and make our own maps of the seaside. We will also learn about the four countries of the UK and begin to label these on a map. In our Design Technology lessons we will be designing, creating and evaluating our own models of a pier.

You can view our themed learning overview by following the link below, this will tell you all about the exciting things we are going to learn.

Harvest Festival

Thank you for your very generous harvest food donations. They were collected by Emmaus, a local charity, following the assembly. They were very grateful and expressed their thanks to all of the children. Enjoy the two video’s below of our Harvest Festival.

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 the 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 '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: