Homework

Homework

Homework will be given out on a Tuesday and will be due in the following Tuesday. Homework consists of a mathematics task, spellings to learn for our spelling test and daily reading.

Reading books will be changed on a Tuesday. Please ensure that your child has their reading book and reading record in school every day.

Daily Reading

Your child should read at home every day. This can be by reading aloud to an adult, being read to by an adult or older sibling or reading to themselves quietly. The amount read will vary according to the child's age and attainment level. The more they read, the better their reading will become. This is important, because reading is such a fundamental skill. Please note your child's reading activities in their reading record book.

Bug Club

I will allocate one sound per week for your child to practise at home. This will usually be a mixture of games and online books.

Required information for Bug Club:

password: Year 1

Code: hsjc

Spelling Test

Pupils will be issued with ten spellings each week and then they will participate in a spelling test every Tuesday. Please help your child to learn the spellings by regularly getting them to write each word from memory. At the learning stage, the "Look, cover, write, check" process is a powerful way to memorise new spellings. Once spellings are secured, children just need to practise writing the spellings several times a day to secure them in their long-term memory. If they want to, children can stretch themselves by putting each word into a sentence.

Mathematics

Every week children will be given a mathematics task or tasks. Some of the work will be practical and pupils would benefit from working with an adult as they explore new concepts. Lots of quality talk about mathematics, between adults and children, is very powerful for the children's learning. Mathematics homework will be linked to the work children are doing in school in any given week.

Thanks for all you do in supporting your child in their education.

Kind regards,

Mr Lewis

This week's homework:

Year 1 Homework 10.6.25 Name: ________________________________

Notes

Please return homework by Tuesday 17.6.25
Spelling test will now be on a Tuesday

Spellings

the
was
are
were
says
time
shine
lime
prime
decline

Reading

Please read to your child, or help your child to read with you, as often as possible. Five or ten minutes every day would make a great difference to their progress in reading.

Reading books and reading records should be brought to school every day please.

Maths

This week children have been learning about left, right, below and above. They have had to describe a person’s position as “to the right of…”, “to the left of…”, “below”, “above”.

They have also tackled ordinal numbers and using the language of 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, etc.

Soon they will cover counting from 50 to 100.

To help them in their learning, please discuss with them the maths they are doing in a practical and everyday way. For example, discuss who was first into the shower, or the third friend they saw in the playground. For counting, see if they can write numbers from 50 to 60, then, another time write numbers from 60 to 70 and so on. The concepts of left, right, below and above are challenging, so lots of talk about real life situations would be so beneficial. For example, “The TV is to the left of the chair.”

Wellness and Wellbeing

Please help your child to find a photograph of themselves as a baby and then bring it into school by Friday 13^th June. Please label the photograph on the back. These pictures will help us with our topic “Changing Me”.

Sports Day

Our department’s sports day will be on Friday 13^th June. Please prepare the children with a water bottle, sunblock and a sun hat.

Also, please ensure that your child has a PE kit in school every day and especially on Friday for sports day. Most have a PE kit in school, but three children still need to bring one in. I have reminded them today. In addition, eight children have said that their plimsolls are too small, as they have been growing. Please ask your child if this applies to them. Thank you so much.

Peter Lewis