Welcome back to Venus and Neptune for our final term of Year 1! We have a busy term planned with lots of exciting learning opportunities for the children. There will also be time dedicated to the transition to Year 2 where the children will meet their new teacher and visit their new classrooms. 

We will begin the term as Scientists in our new enquiry 'What Am I?'. We will be learning all about the different types of animals and about classifications such as vertebrate and invertebrate and carnivore / herbivore / omnivore. Our trip to Bristol Zoo Project will give us first-hand experience of many different animals. We will also be doing the final part of our seasonal change enquiry 'What Changes Around Me?' and finding out all about the season of summer. 

Year 1 were busy practising stretching and reading words using our phonic knowledge in Term 5 and this will continue in Term 6. Please continue to look out for the homework each Friday which contains words for the children to read and write using the GPC's we have learnt in phonics. 

As authors, we will be retelling the story 'How to Catch a Star' by Oliver Jeffers and writing our own version of the story with exciting setting descriptions and narrative language. We will continue to practice our letter formation and sitting our letters correctly on or below the line as well as making sure that our sentences have full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. 

As mathematicians, we will be securing our place value knowledge of numbers to 100 by understanding numbers in their tens and ones (e.g. 52 as 5 tens and 2 ones). We will be learning to tell the time to the hour and half hour and become confident with ordering and using the days of the week and months of the year. 

Please note: 

Both classes have PE on Tuesday and Friday.

You can contact your child's teacher with any queries or questions:

Neptune: neptune@stannesinfants.co.uk

Venus: venus@stannesinfants.co.uk