Year 1 Newsletter 7th November 2025

November 7, 2025

English

We will be reading the story of Paddington Bear goes to the hospital. We will then be retelling the story during the week creating a picture story and writing sentences to match. We will be using the conjunction ‘and’ in our writing and will extend to try to use so, but, because. 

 

In phonics we will learning new digraphs (alternative spellings)

o (oa) as in most, post, open

i (igh) as in find, mind, child

a (ai) as in paper, later, chasing

e (ee) as in fever, secret, being

 

We will also be reading the following tricky words:

 

your           people             their            oh              Mr

 

Mrs            Ms             ask

 

Have a look below to see some examples of the types of ‘real’ or ‘alien/fake’ words they may have to read. More information about the Phonics Screening Check will be given to you later in the year.

 

Real Words:

mind            most           float             beep

 

Alien/Fake Words:

chack          fleem             shelk            grex

 

Don’t forget to review the sounds and tricky words in the front of the reading records whenever you read with your child.

Reminders

Children in Need Day Friday 14th November – children can come to school dressed in yellow, spotty or Pudsey related along with non uniform.

 

As the weather is changeable now as we approach winter, please could you ensure all children have a named coat in school everyday.

Maths

For our maths focus we will continue to learn about addition. We will move on to solve addition word problems. For example if 6 birds are on a tree and 3 more landed on the tree, how many birds are now on the tree?

Topic

In RE we will begin to explore the ways in which Christians celebrate Christmas.

In Art will be looking at the work of Piet Mondrian. We will then use our new learnt skills of digital painting to create our own Mondrian picture. 

In DT we will begin our new topic – puppets. We will begin to explore different types of hand puppet and then design and cut our own fabric.

Homework

Your child will either have a maths homework booklet or a handwriting homework book.

 

Maths Homework Book – Complete pages 16 & 17

Handwriting Homework Book – Complete Pages 12 & 13

 

Please complete these in writing pencil.

 

Please speak to your child’s class teacher if you have any questions or concerns.

Top Players

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Class 6

Rubie Clarke

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Children’s Health Project

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Class 6

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