Year 1 reminders for Monday

Hello Year 1

 

Just a couple of reminders for Monday.

 

On Monday we are doing a tag rugby session in the afternoon for 30 minutes so you will all need to come in your PE kit on that day and this be be used as our weekly PE session.

Also on Monday we are wearing odd socks in support of anti- bullying week. You still need to wear your PE kit but you can wear some crazy socks over the top. We cant wait to see you all.

 

Have a fun and safe weekend!

Mrs Dutton, Miss O’Neill, Mrs Robson and Miss Hilton.

Remembrance Day 2020

Today in class 5 we remembered all the brave soldiers that have lost their lives in war to help keep us safe. We watched videos of other children talking about remembrance and what it is and we watched the service from the Cenotaph and watched the royal family laying wreaths for our fallen hero’s.

 

the children were all very mature about this subject and we had some great discussion about the 2 minutes silence being a quiet thank you to the soldiers from all of us.

I am very proud of you all class 5, well done!

Tricky word practice

Today class 5 have been practising their phase 4 tricky words by writing them on the carpet in chalk. We had 2 minutes to see how many we could write and we were brilliant at it. Keep up the hard work class 5. I love it.

 

Miss Hilton

 

PUMPKIN COMPETITION

Thanks to all who have entered the pumpkin competition. The deadline for entries is 12pm today. Unfortunately any entries received after this time will not be part of the judging. One winner per phase will be announced and all entries will receive a small treat on their return to school next Monday. Details of the competition are below:

🎃🍁🍂Happy half term 🎃🍁🍂

At Green Top we are sad that family learning can’t take place as it would usually in our classrooms and therefore we have pledged to have a family learning activity each half term for the whole school community to get involved with.

The first family learning challenge will be a ‘Carve or Decorate your own pumpkin’ competition. This competition will be judged on 31st October. There can be one entry per child and all entries must be entered by a photograph sent to [email protected] by the 12pm Tuesday 27th October. As photographs are entered they will be blogged on the website for all to see. All students who enter will receive a ‘treat’ on their return to school on 2nd November.

In addition one winner will be selected from each phase. Winners will be announced on October 31st.

An Autumn Celebration to end Year 1’s First Half-Term!

Year One have had a brilliant Autumn inspired day to end our first half-term of the year!

We have enjoyed discussing seasonal change and thinking about what is so special about Autumn, making links to the celebration of harvest, weather and colour. We also had the chance to decorate (and eat!) our own biscuits as a special treat… Yum yum!

Our focus was to learn about the work of Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama who puts dots everywhere… even on pumpkins! We used her work to inspire some of our own beautiful work which you can check out below and in our video. Enjoy!

We hope you all have a fabulous half-term and will look forward to seeing you all in two weeks time.

Mrs Dutton, Miss Hilton, Miss O’Neil and Mrs Robson 🙂

Conversation Starter

Do you ever ask your child what they’ve been learning this week only to get told ‘nothing’ or ‘I can’t remember’.

To try and help with this, each year group will share a specific question each week about that weeks learning to try and help get the conversation going. 

Let us know if it’s useful and helps children talk about their learning. 

#crewgreentop

Phonics lessons online

Parents of children in F2, Y1 and Y2 may want to explore this website https://lettersandsounds.org.uk/for-home/overview. This website provides pre recorded phonics lessons which can be used to support your children with the phonics screening check which typically takes place in Y1 during the Summer term.  This year our Y2 student are expected to take this phonics check during the second half term.

 

Monday tricky words

 

class 5 have been have a go Henry’s today by spelling tricky words using chalk on the carpet.  I was so impressed at how everyone’s letter formation had improved since starting back at school. Well done everyone. Keep up the hard work.

 

Miss Hilton

Year 1 online classroom

Hello Year 1

 

We have set up a new online classroom for you where you can access homework, key information, learning and learning links. All children should have received an email inviting them to join their new classroom. Their new email is [email protected]

Everyone has a new login for their emails but should have the same password.

username:

firstname.surname33

password:

password

 

Once you have joined leave us a comment on the classroom so we know you have been successful. We look forward to seeing you all there!

 

Miss Hilton and Mrs Dutton