Team 1 Autumn Newsletter 2015
Team 1 Autumn Newsletter 2015
Team 1 Autumn Newsletter 2015
Week 6- This will hopefully involve a School visit to the Railway museum at Shildon where we will
be given the opportunity to explore steam trains, first hand!
Week 7- Our final week of the half term is entitled Lets Build Bridges where we will be using our
Designing skills to create some wonderful structures.
In addition to this we will be creating some lively Music as we visit the music studio each week to
compose and create pieces related to rhythms and train journeys.
In Indoor P.E. we will be using the hall floor to move in a variety of ways. The children will be
learning about sequences and making up their own sequence of movements to perform. Our
Outdoor P.E. is based on games. Please ensure that your child has a suitable P.E. Kit, comprising of
a T-shirt, shorts for indoor play and trainers and tracksuits for outdoor games which should be in
school at all times. Please ensure that all PE clothes are NAMED! Your child should not wear
earrings on their P.E. day for health and safety reasons.
Our P.E days are Tuesday and Wednesday and during the Wednesday session the children will be
working with Mr Fowler (a local football coach) until December.
Homework:
Reading books will be sent home on a Tuesday and Friday - please return them to school by
Thursday and Monday respectively. These books are home readers as your child will be
reading a variety of books during guided reading in Literacy. Please acknowledge you have
heard your child read by signing and/or commenting in the reading record book. Thank you.
Keywords, which are sent home on a Tuesday, are sight recognition words. They are checked
weekly and are only changed if your child knows the word on sight (ie: they do not build up
the word phonetically).
Maths homework is sent home on a Friday and should be returned to school by the following
Tuesday.
If you have any spare time during the week and would like to help in school please contact your
childs class teacher who can arrange for you to be given the form necessary to obtain police
clearance to enable you to help. If you are already DBS checked and the forms are at the office
then you are able to help immediately. All parents/carers who would like to help on school trips will
need to be CRB checked prior to the trip.
We would also like to request that if you are able to send in any junk modelling pieces in
preparation for some of our Designing activities they would be greatly appreciated. Also, if anyone
has any Thomas the Tank engine books that could be used by the children in School they too would
be gratefully received( please add your childs name to the books and let us know if they are to be
returned home or alternatively donated to the School) Thank you in advance.
Important dates this term:
Consultation evenings 19th and 21st October from 3.30-5.30
Half term holidays School breaks up Thursday 22nd October
Children return to school Monday 2nd November
Teacher Professional Development Day- Friday 23rd October
We look forward to meeting you all soon.
The Year 1 Team.