Waddington All Saints Y1/2

The children have loved learning about the seaside. Here are pictures of their final piece of learning.

The children have been sharing their understanding of Team All Saints. They have been making an extra effort to be kind, honest, caring, resilient and being the best they can be.

Dear Parents and Carers,

In the week beginning the Monday 13^th June 2016, all Year 1 pupils in the country will sit the National Phonics Screening Check. The phonics screening check is a short, light-touch assessment to confirm whether individual children have learnt phonic decoding skills to the expected standard for their age. This check will identify the children who have successfully consolidated their phonics skills and any children that require further support in Y2.

The phonics screening check will be constructed of 20 real words and 20 pseudo-words (nonsense words). The pseudo-words provide the purest assessment of phonic decoding because they will be new to all children, and so there will be no unintended bias based on visual memory of words or vocabulary knowledge. The pseudo-words will be presented with a picture prompt (a picture of an imaginary creature). This approach makes it clear to children that they are reading a pseudo-word, which they should not expect to be able to match to their existing vocabulary.

For more information please visit the government website on Phonics Screening.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/230810/Phonics_assessment_framework.PDF

Here is the 2013 Phonics Screening paper for you to look at and use with your child to practise https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/320637/STA136008e.pdf

There are lots for useful free resources available for you to use with your child.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase5Menu.htm

http://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/

http://www.education.com/games/phonics/

There are also lots of Apps for Ipads and tablets that are child friendly to use, such as Phonics Genius, Hooked on Phonics, Hairy Phonics 1, 2 and 3 and pocket phonics.

Attached are some other real and pseudo-words (nonsense words) that you can practise at home.

If you have any further questions or requires please speak to myself or Mrs Wright.

Kind regards

Miss Heath

Y1 Teacher

Today the children enjoyed making up their own team games with a Maths twist! They had to make sure that the scoring system included using multiples of 2,5 or 10! They came up with some wonderful games, worked well as a team and used their Maths skills very well!

The children loved using different resources to solve addition problems to 100. They solved the problems in different ways to master the understanding of the relationship of numbers.

Our new theme is the Seaside. we are going to be thinking about the history of the seaside and compare it to the seaside today.

Here are some pictures of our learning in Year 1 over the last week.

This afternoon we took advantage of the nice weather to get some of our seedling potted on and planted out, some more seeds planted and to weed the vegetable plots ready to plant up. Everyone loved it, we found the roots on the sunflowers that we planted out, fascinating, there were so many of them!