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Spring One – 2023: ‘All dressed up’!
Wow Day – Friday 6th January
Our new topic for Spring One is ‘All Dressed up‘. On Friday 6th January the children are invited to wear clothes which are special to them, this could be a favourite outfit, or clothes that reflect their cultural heritage (please don’t feel the need to go out and buy something new, like we said a party outfit is perfect!). We will be completing fun activities to engage the children and excite them into their new topic. Please be aware when choosing an outfit that the children will be playing outside at break and lunchtimes.
Please see the ‘Topic Web’ below for details of what we will be covering during the half term.
Sunshine 1 – Miss Longman teaches you Monday-Wednesday and Mrs Way teaches you Thursday-Friday and Mrs Waite (Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) and Mrs Dawson, (Tuesday – Thursday), work in class with you as well.
Sunshine 2 – Miss Hawes is your teacher and Mrs Kirby works in class with you as well. Mr White also works with you on a Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs Law teaches Music in both classes each week.
Forest School
‘Forest School’ will continue be on Wednesday for both Sunshine 1 and Sunshine 2.
We are lucky enough that this year we are able to offer ‘Forest School’ sessions all year round. Miss Hawes will be teaching forest school to both classes every Wednesday. Please ensure your child wears suitable clothing, we will be outside in all weathers, (except high winds or thunder), so please dress your child appropriately. Please see the ‘Forest School’ page for more information.
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.
PE
On PE days, your child will be required to come to school in their PE kit and wear it for the day. 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. PE days for each class remain as follows:
Monday: Sunshine Two
Tuesday: Sunshine One
Wednesday: Second PE session for both classes: please wear ‘Forest School’ clothes for this, (see above).
Spellings
Here are the spellings we will be learning this half term. Any practise you can do at home as well will be beneficial.
Sunshine Spellings – Spring One
‘Learning Logs’
At the beginning of each half term a list objectives will be posted below. For Spring One, this list will be sent home after Christmas. Please choose one task 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 all. The objectives are linked to the work covered in class during the half term. Please send your child’s ‘Learning Log’ into school when they have completed a piece of work and we will return it with feedback.
Parent Information Powerpoint Presentation and video:
Reading
Bookbags will need to be brought into school daily and we will issue 3 books each week for your child to read at home.
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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
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
With best wishes for a very exciting year,
The Sunshine Team