Sunshine
Hello Sunshines!
The children have settled well into Year one and have taken all the rules and routines in their stride! We are enjoying lots of outdoor activities in the lovely weather.
Please click the link below to see more information about the daily routines in Sunshine Class.
Sunshine 1 – Mr Williams (Monday and Tuesday) and Mrs Williams (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) are your teachers and Mrs Kirby , Miss Booth and Miss Unsworth will be working with you in class each day as well.
Sunshine 2 – Mrs Nickless is your teacher and Mrs Aziz will be working with you in class each day as well. Mrs Law will be working with you on a Wednesday
Our topic for Autumn 1 is called ‘Out and About’. We will be outdoors on the field or playground as much as we can, learning about Autumn, animals, the local area, houses and homes and lots more! Our author of the term is Julia Donaldson, and we will be looking in detail at the story of ‘The Stick Man’. Please find a link to our topic web below. Details of our ‘recovery curriculum’ for Maths, English, Phonics and PSHE are being sent to you by email.
Homework
Spellings
Here are the spellings to learn this half term:
Please find below a link to the website ‘Spelling Frame’ which is useful for practising spelling patterns. Your child has a login to be able to access the full range of games and activities. Select Year 1 and a sound you would like to practise. Your child is learning all of the sounds throughout the year so any practise would be helpful.
Reading
Reading books will be sent home each Monday. Please return the finished books and record to school on a Friday ready for new books to be issued on the following Monday. Your child will have a separate book kept in school to read to adults in class. Your child will also bring home a login to the bookshelf on the Oxford Owl website so they can access additional reading books online if you wish. Here is a link to the Year 1 Common Exception words the children will be reading and spelling throughout the year. Year-1-Common-Exception-Words
Learning Logs
At the beginning of each half term a list objectives will be posted below. Please choose one to complete each week. There are more objectives than the number of weeks so you have a wide range of activities and subject areas to choose from. If you would like to support your children at home, these objectives have been provided for that purpose but there is certainly no pressure to complete them. The objectives are linked to the work covered in class during the half term. Your child’s Learning Log will be sent home during the first week. Please keep it at home and return it in the last week before the October half term so we can quarantine, mark and send back home again with new tasks for the next half term.
PE
PE days for each class are as follows. Your child will be required to come to school in their PE kit and wear it for the day.
Sunshine 1: Wednesday
Sunshine 2: Thursday
We will go outside for PE when the weather permits so please ensure your child wears a pair of tracksuit bottoms and a sweatshirt / fleece in a dark colour for the colder weather.
Outdoor Learning
We do lots of outdoor activities throughout the year so please provide your child with a pair of named wellies which we will keep outside of the classroom on our welly rack for easy access. If you have wellies left from last year that are now too small please take them from the rack outside of the classroom if you can.
Our class email addresses are below. Please use these for non-urgent queries and information, as we will not be able to check emails whilst we are teaching during the day we ask that if you have something urgent to let us know please email the school office where it can be dealt with more quickly. Please also use the school office email to report if your child is absent as they will need to update the register straight away.
sunshine1@haddenham-st-marys.bucks.sch.uk
sunshine2@haddenham-st-marys.bucks.sch.uk
Best wishes,
The Sunshine Team
