Sunshine
Beautifully British – Sunshine WOW day
On Friday 8th September we invite the children to come to school wearing red, white or blue (or all the colours if you are feeling adventurous!), this can be an item of clothing, a hair accessory or even something homemade. Throughout the day we will be introducing the children to our new topic and doing some baking. The children will be baking their own scones which they will be eating in golden time. If you have any objection to your child eating their scone in school, please let Miss Hawes or Miss Hook know the morning of the 8th.
Please see the ‘Topic Web’ below for details of what we will be covering during the half term.
Sunshine 1 –Miss Hook is your teacher and Mrs Dawson (Mon-Wed) and Mrs Cartmell (Wed-Fri) working with you in class as well.
Sunshine 2 – Miss Hawes is your teacher and Mrs Kirby works in class with you as well.
Mrs Law teaches Music in both classes each week.
Forest School
Forest School will 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). This year, we would like children to bring their Forest School clothing into school with them in a named bag. Please see the ‘Forest School’ page for more information on suitable clothing.
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:
Tuesday and Friday.
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 – Autumn Two
‘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
