Hedgehogs
Welcome to Hedgehogs!
Class Teachers: Mrs Halsall and Mrs Hunt
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Kennedy
Welcome to Year 1
General Information
Reading
Each week, your child will come home with a book that matches their phonic knowledge, along with a library book. These books will be changed on a Monday. Please listen to, or read to, your child daily and record any reading you do at home in your child's planner. We ask that the children read their reading books three times to boost their fluency.
Phonics/Spellings
Phonics is taught daily as a whole class and activities are provided to support new learning as well as deepen children's understanding. From January we will be sending list of Common Exception Words home for you to practise spelling at home. We will then complete a quiz in school each term to check the children’s knowledge of reading and spellings these words.
P.E.
Mrs Halsall will be taking the PE sessions this half term, on a Wednesday morning. Please make sure your child has named PE kit in school, including outdoor shoes.
Show and Tell
Our weekly 'Show and Tell' session is a great way to boost confidence and improve clarity and coherence when speaking in front of a group. There is no pressure at all to speak, but as they are ready, we find that the children really enjoy the opportunity to tell the class about what they have brought in.
Children are welcome to bring in something interesting for 'Show and Tell' on the following Fridays. Alternatively, you could use the Year One email address to send in a photo for your child to talk about when it is their turn. Please avoid sending in anything very precious, fragile or expensive!
12th April - GREY TABLES
19th April - GREEN TABLES
26th April - YELLOW TABLES
3rd May - GREY
10th May - GREEN
17th May - YELLOW
24th May - NO SHOW AND TELL
HALF TERM
7th June - GREY
14th June - GREEN
21st June - YELLOW
28th June - GREY
5th July - GREEN
12th July - YELLOW
19th July - NO SHOW AND TELL
Handwriting
Handwriting and correct letter formation are an important part of children's literacy skills, however, there are various ways in which certain letters can be formed. To help with consistency and in order for you to be able to support your children at home with their handwriting, below is a PowerPoint modelling how we form letters at Oatlands Infants.
Lesson Timetable
Useful Websites
Maths - Telling the Time - o'clock!
Our Fabulous Sewing!
Wimbledon Tennis!
English Experience - Garden Poetry!
Unity Day - Fabulous Families
RE - Mrs Mohamed kindly came in to talk to us about mosques and how important they are to Muslims
SCIENCE - We had lots of fun trying to identify these leaves!
MATHS - Partitioning 2-Digit Numbers into Tens and Ones
GEOGRAPHY - The Countries and Capitals of the UK
SCIENCE - Common Wild and Garden Plants
D&T - Weaving
RE - Stained-Glass Windows (features of a Christian church)
SCIENCE - The Parts of a Flowering Plant
ART/ENGLISH - Watercolour Flowers in the Style of Katie Cottle, Illustrator of 'Omar, the Bees and Me'
Geography - Mapping Skills
PE with Mrs Bassendale from St Aidans!
Geography Fieldwork - Local housing and building use!
Maths - Arrays
ART - Colour Theory and Alma Thomas
Art - Using Hapa Zome to transfer colour from natural plant material to fabric!
Physical Education - Ball Skills
Computing - Controlling a Beebot
8.4.24 - We enjoyed our visit to the library.
Unity Day - We learned about gender equity and that a person's gender shouldn't stop them from doing the job of their dreams!
Odd Socks for World Down Syndrome Day!
Happy Easter!
PSHE - 'Healthy Me' Teeth Talk
Neurodiversity Celebration Week!
ART - String Prints inspired by Orla Kiely
National Railway Museum Visit
WORLD BOOK DAY
Computing - Using bold, underline and italics!
ART, Orla Kiely - Finger Printing
SCIENCE - Making a Windsock
HISTORY - George Stephenson
Lunar New Year
PE: Apparatus - Practising our balancing!
Design and Technology - Fruit Kebabs
Maths Rocks!
Design and Technology - Practising slicing and chopping!
Maths - Place Value to 20
It started to snow!!
Design and Technology - Moving Pictures
Maths - 3D Shape
Design and Technology - Levers
English Experience - Autumn Scavenger Hunt!
Physical Education - Jumping and Landing
Children In Need
Maths Week
Victorian Day
ENGLISH - We are writing a description of Bonfire Night, inspired by 'Little Glow'. We enjoyed making edible sparklers and drinking hot chocolate to get us in the mood!
Science - Sorting Materials
Black Legacy Month - we have enjoyed reading lots of great books this month!
Show Racism the Red Card!
ENGLISH - We read 'Ruby's Worry' then wrote a postcard to the boy in 'My Monster and Me' telling him to talk to someone about his worries.
MUSIC - We learned to play an accompaniment to the song, 'Shapes'.
We were inspired listening to the directors of 'The Smeds and the Smoos'!
ENGLISH - We went on a Verb Hunt!
Religious Education - Liz, from St Marks Church, came in to answer our questions!
Physical Education - Balancing
SPECIAL VISITOR - We learned some simple vocabulary in Swedish!
ART - We had lots of fun mixing primary colours to make secondary colours!
MATHS - Finding Number Bonds to 10
ART - We used graphite sticks to draw self-portraits.
Science - Sense of Taste
English Experience - Character Description
Maths - Place Value within 10
Computing - Using a trackpad
ENGLISH - We went hunting for texture adjectives to use in our sentences.
ART - David Hockney's 'joiners' inspired our fabulous self-portraits!
We enjoyed our first week!
Science with Miss Haddon!
