Year 1 Homework To be handed in Monday 22nd September

Welcome! Hopefully everyone has gone home today with their home reading packs. Inside you should find an exercise book (This is your homework book), two reading books and your reading record - please write a short note with how your child found / enjoyed these books. Please remember that the Read Write Inc book links to your child’s reading in school. The second book is one to enjoy - the children visited the school library and picked one that they were interested in reading at home.

  1. READING: Please enjoy your reading books this week!

  2. DECORATE TIME: Please decorate your homework book (A4 blue exercise book) Can you personalise it so that it shares a little bit about your character, interests or family?

  3. SPELLINGS: This week our two common exception words are:

    I the

    Our phonic sound is: ck

    Words to learn are: kick pick pack sock

    Our spelling game this week has been Countdown. We’ve had great time playing this game: Pop each spelling on a small piece of paper, play the countdown theme tune, when the music stops, say the word you’ve got. Play again until all words have been uncovered.

Don’t forget our emails should you have any questions:

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 1 Weekly blog 12.9.25 - Let the beauty of nature remind you of the goodness of God.

"God saw all that He had made, and it was GOOD." Genesis 1:31

Our week began in such a special way, with a walk holding our Year 6 friends hands, ready to celebrate Our Lady’s birthday. The children shared such happy conversations with each other and our Year 6 friends really wanted to find out all about their Year 1 buddy, it was such a joy to listen to the caring conversations. In church all of our children sat so prayerfully, singing to hymns they remembered and joining their hands respectfully.

We welcomed a special visitor from CAFOD on Monday! She helped us become learned and wise towards our world and the greater needs of others! Our Year 1’s were incredibly knowledgeable and caring, and absolutely blew our special visitor away with the wisdom of their words.

Magic moments of learning

We have been so busy with learning! Within RE and our liturgy’s we have been focused on CREATION - the beautiful world that God has made. We have a class of caring children who want to look after God’s beautiful world. The children enjoyed heading outside to see, smell, hear and feel God’s creation as we went on a scavenger hunt in our school grounds.

Letter join lessons have started and have been a real hit! ON Tuesday afternoon the Children enjoyed their first history lesson from Mrs Marshall! The children loved seeing the timeline grow in the classroom!

Delving deeper with our learning…

What big animal movements can you remember to help your body get ready for writing? My brain is thinking back to the crab movement…

What is your favourite thing that God made and why?

KIDSAFE

This week, as part of our HRSE curriculum, we have continued onto our second session in KIDSAFE lessons. Please click on the link below to see a letter which provides more information regarding our KIDSAFE curriculum and the discussions from our second lesson

Let’s celebrate

This week our Virtue Star for being such a considered member of our classroom is Rupert! Our Star learner this week is a Focused learner which has been awarded to Lily for her continuous focus, concentration and how she always put her everything into learning.

Reminders

  • PE days are Monday (Outdoor) and Thursday (Indoor). No jewellery is to be worn on either of these days.

  • On Tuesday your child will come home with their homework book. Part of their homework will be to enjoy backing their book so that it is special to them, by sharing a little bit of their personality, what is special to them or what they like! Please remember that homework books must then be returned by the following Monday. Thank you!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend.!

God Bless

Miss Bassett, Mrs Hartley and Mrs Hennessey

Welcome to Year 1 2025!

We are so excited to welcome you to Year 1!

We hope that you have all had a wonderful summer, we have definitely done well with the weather - perfect for lots of nice walks and days out! This week we have been busy making the classroom ready to welcome the children back in on Tuesday morning. We have a lovely home corner, a learning pod for our guided work, fine motor area, maths and English areas, a topic investigation zone, book corner, and IPad station, all of which will have a linked activity for our current learning.

Below we hope to answer all of the questions that might be popping into your minds as you start to get ready for Tuesday…

In Year 1 you do NOT need to bring in a pencil case, we will have all the stationary that your child may need in class for them - one less thing to think about!

You will need a water bottle - if possible labelled to help with making sure they go home with the right child.

Similarly to Reception, there will be a healthy snack provided (this will be a piece of fruit or vegetable such as carrots) however if you would like your child to bring in their own snack you are most welcome. They will be able to get these out before our morning snack time. Please make sure these are a healthy snack and remember that we are a nut free school.

Outside PE lessons are on Mondays, so you need to come in wearing your PE tracksuit.

Inside PE lessons are on Thursdays, again you can come into school wearing PE tracksuits (if warm then no need for tracksuit bottoms - just PE shorts). As the weather gets colder please make sure that PE shorts are either worn under tracksuit bottoms, or left in school or in your child’s school bag - ready to change into before the lesson

We ask for no earrings / jewellery to be worn on PE days. Unfortunately, we are unable to help take earrings out or put them back in so this must be done before school at home.

Art is on a Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Mather. Please bring an art shirt/t-shirt to keep in your trays, to cover your uniform in messy lessons.

Homework will be sent home on a Friday and should be brought back into school by the following Wednesday.

As we settle into Year 1 each child will have a reading book and reading record. We will give you more information about this shortly.

At home times, children will be collected from the Year 1 outside area next to the classroom. Morning drop off is as usual.

Please remember to label all of your uniform.

We can’t wait to see you all next week!

Should you need or want to get in contact with us, below are our email addresses:

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Miss Bassett, Mrs Hartley and Mrs Hennessy

Maths Mastery Parent Project final survey

Dear Parents,

Thank you for your support with the mastery for maths parents project. We loved having you all in school to share the games and approaches taken in school with the Mastering Number program. We are seeking to give the children confidence their number facts and recall them with ease. We will be running the program again next year in KS 1. This time we will invite you in the Autumn term we look forward to taking the maths further together.

Could you please now complete the final feedback survey.