Welcome to Seal Class
On this page you will find weekly updates about what the children are learning in literacy, maths and phonics so you can support at home. Our termly curriculum maps provide an outline of what the children will learn across all subjects. More detailed information for a particular subject can be found in the curriculum area of the website.
Our PE days this term will be Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please make sure all your child’s clothes are clearly named.
If you need to catch up with us about anything we are available before or after school or you can email the office to arrange a time to meet.
We are hoping Orlando the reading owl will be flying to Seal class on a regular basis - please help by hearing you child read 5 times a week.
Miss Bishop ( Monday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday) and Mrs Vinnicombe (Tuesday)
Our lovely teaching assistant is Mrs Wharton.
For lots of resources about our topic and everything else visit the Espresso website. Parents have their own log in to use ...
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password - sandcastle
In Year 1 this week:
Week beginning 2nd October
We have a very busy week ahead of us:
Monday 2nd October - Alice in Wonderland Performance during the school day.
Thursday 5th October- Whole school Poetry day.
Phonics
We will be revisiting these adjacent consonants :
-sk - desk
-ct - object
- pt - swept
-gl -glint
- gr - grand
- nd - grand
- pl - plump
-pr - prank
We will be revisiting the common exception words:
- were, there & little
Maths
In Maths we are looking at:
- Bar model partitioning
- 2D shapes
Literacy
In Literacy we are looking at:
- Beginning to plan and write our first independant piece of writing.
Gentle reminder - Please could all school uniform be clearly named and could parents/carers ensure their child has a PE kit at school.
Many Thanks
Week beginning 25th September
Phonics
We will be revisiting these adjacent consonants :
- bl- blink
- br - brain
- cr - crust
-sk - desk
-ct - object
- pt - swept
-gl -glint
- gr - grand
We will also be looking at polysyllabic words including:
- farmyard, hunting, umbrella
We will be revisiting the common exception words:
- were & there
Maths
In Maths we are looking at:
- ordinal numbers
- Finding parts of a whole
- Looking at and revisiting one more and one less of a number.
- Discussing and identifying how many objects are in a set.
Literacy
In Literacy we are looking at:
- Continuing to immerse ourselves in our new book 'Major Glad, Major Dizzy' through: sequencing a story, identifying and matching nouns to adjectives, adding adjectives to sentences and creating story maps.
In Year 1 this week:
Week beginning 18th September
Phonics
We will be focusing on these adjacent consonants :
- lk - milk, silk
- lp - help, yelping
- xt - text, next
- st - start, stars
- sm - smell, smash
- sn - snail, snarl
- fr - froth, frown
- fl - fluff, flower
We will also be looing at polysyllabic words including:
- twisting, sandpit, clownfish, shampoo, thundering, sandwich, softest
We will be revisiting the common exception words:
- so, do, like, some
Maths
In Maths we are looking at:
- Comparing amounts using the equality and inequality symbols: more than > less than < equal to =
- Explaining that a whole can be split into parts - knowing that the whole is always more than the part of a whole.
Literacy
In Literacy we are looking at:
- Continuing to immerse ourselves in our new book 'Major Glad, Major Dizzy' through: writing accurate sentences about an object using adjectives; using the plural 's'; and using synonyms (words that have the same or similar meanings).
Week beginning 11th September
Reading certificates will be given out on Friday this week to those children who have read at least five times.
Phonics
We will be focusing on these adjacent consonants :
- nt - faint, point, paint
- st - boast, toast, roasting
- ld - elder, Matilda
- lf - himself, selfish, shelf
- dr - droop, dressing, drill
- cl - cloth, cloak, clubs
- bl - black, bloom, blushing
We will be revisiting the common exception words:
- have, said, like
Maths
In Maths we are looking at:
- Explaining that items can be compared using length and height.
- Explaining that items can be compared using weight/mass and volume/capacity.
- Counting a set of objects.
- Comparing sets of objects.
Literacy
In Literacy we are looking at:
- Immersing ourselves in our new book through exploring objects linked to the text; making suggestions and predictions about where the items have come from and who they belong to; using nouns and adjectives to describe what we can see; saying and writing a sentence independently based on what we can see from a page in the book.
Week beginning 4th September
This week will be a ‘getting to know you’ week to settle the children back into school and into the new routines and structure of year one.
There will be no reading certificates given out this week - we will be starting these again next week.
Phonics
We will be focusing on these adjacent consonants :
- ft - shift, swift, soft
- mp - stamp, stump, shrimp
- lt - quilt, melt, spoilt
Maths
In Maths we will be recapping previous learning and playing maths games to see what skills and knowledge the children can share.
Literacy
In Literacy we are looking at:
- Writing descriptive sentences about our summer holidays
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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