P.E kits
Please ensure your child comes in to school in their PE kits every Tuesday and Thursday. If your child has their ears pierced, we ask that you either take these out for the day or cover them with micropore tape.
Reading
To best support, us in teaching your child to read, we ask that you read the decodable text provided by the school four times across the week. Spending 10 minutes a day reading with your child will hugely support them on their journey to becoming an independent reader. We also ask that you write in your child’s reading record each time you have read.
We will be changing children’s books once a week on Mondays. This will allow your child to re-read each text several times, building their confidence and fluency. This is especially important as they begin to learn that the sounds within our language can be spelled in different ways.
For children, re-reading words and sentences that they can decode (sound out) until they are fluent (read with ease and precision) is a key part of learning to read. By reading texts several times, children have the greatest opportunity to achieve this fluency.
The texts sent home are carefully matched to the teaching taking place in school. Your child will be practising what they have been taught in school with you at home. We will only ask children to read books independently when they can decode these by themselves.
Any books that are not yet decodable for the children will be sent home as a sharing book. These are labelled as ‘Reading for Pleasure’ books. These books will be sent home for you to read with your child, helping us to instil a love of reading from the very beginning of their reading journey. These could be read together with your child reading the words they are able to decode or could be read to your child.
Homework
Children will be provided with a ‘Homework Menu’ each half term with a list of possible activities they can engage in at home to support their learning within school.
Year 1 Badger Class Curriculum Overview
