Welcome to Class 5

Class Teacher: Miss Porter
Teaching Assistants: Ms Knight

Learning Support Assistant: Miss Pope

Hello and welcome to Class 5,

Welcome back! We hope you have had a wonderful Christmas break!  We are looking forward to an exciting Spring term in Year 1.

This term in maths we will be focusing on Place value within 20 and 50. Adding and subtraction within 20. We will be learning about measurement focusing on length, height, mass and volume. 

Your child will have weekly spellings. We ask that you practise them with the children and read with them at home. It is important to read as much as possible and we ask that parents listen to their children read and help develop a love of books. When you listen to your children read, this should be recorded in their Home School Diary and each read will count towards a reading prize! 

In English, we will be continuing to follow our phonics scheme Read Write Inc.  The children will have the opportunity to develop and embed their phonic skills in our writing lessons. Children will have opportunities to read stories and non-fiction texts and carry out different genres of writing. In our English lessons we will be focussing on learning to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces correctly and learning to use the pronoun ‘I’ and using the conjunction ‘and’. We will be continuing to practise using and to join two words together. We will also be learning to use exclamation marks and question marks correctly. 

During the afternoons, our topic for the first half of the Spring term will be 'Toy Museum'.  We will be learning about everyday materials and their properties. How toys have changed through living memory and making our own toy.

Class 5 will have PE Wednesday mornings and Friday afternoons. It is important that the children have their Ghyllgrove PE kits at school so that they can join in with the sessions.  Our PE kit is a white t-shirt with red shorts and trainers. Children with long hair must have their hair tied back and no jewellery can be worn during P.E. 

Look out for more information on the curriculum that we will be studying over the course of the term in order to support your child as much as possible. Also, look out for any letters sent home and emails regarding events in school.

Finally, we would like to remind all families to label your child’s clothing and equipment.  This includes PE Kit, School Uniform, Coats and lunch boxes.  All items must have your child’s name and class number.  Lastly, may we remind you that we are a healthy school, we do ask the children have only water in the classrooms.

Thank you for your continued support. 

Miss Porter