WELCOME TO YEAR ONE

Class Teacher: Mr Ogden

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Brightmore

PPA cover: Mrs Kelly

SENCo: Miss Milnes

Forest School: Mrs Grant and Mrs Arden-Littlewood

Pastoral: Mrs McDonald

Dear parents/carers and children,

Welcome to our Year One class page.  Here you will find lots of useful information regarding class routines, timetables and expectations, together with details regarding the Year One curriculum and our learning journey throughout the year.  We will be regularly updating the page as our knowledge and experiences grow, so please keep visiting! 

In addition, you will also find some useful links to help your child at home.  We hope you enjoy the page and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask or send a message on Dojo.

Mr Ogden and the Year One team.

Our learning journey so far...

Class Information

P.E.

Indoor PE: Thursday afternoon.

Outdoor PE: Monday afternoon.

We are very grateful to Stockport County FC, who have supplied us with PE kits for every child.  The kits include a bag, t-shirt, shorts, jumper and jogging bottoms.  We will send the kits home each holiday for washing.  Some children prefer to wear skin tight leggings for indoor PE and children are welcome to do so, but these must be provided by home.  If your child wears earrings and is unable to remove them on their own, then they should be removed in the morning before school or plasters will need to be sent in with your child so that they can cover their earrings before PE.  Children with long hair will need a hair tie for P.E.

Forest School

Wednesday

Forest School is on a Wednesday afternoon. Children are encouraged to wear their Forest School clothing to school on a Wednesday (including a long sleeve top, long bottoms such as leggings or tracksuit bottoms and suitable footwear) and bring a change of footwear for the rest of the day.  

Homework

The children will be given homework booklets for Maths and English each week on a Friday, which are to be completed and handed in by the following Tuesday.  If your child finds any particular task really challenging and you have had to give a lot of assistance, please send a message on DOJO and we will be happy to support.  

A weekly spelling assignment, linked to the weekly spelling pattern, will also be put on Ed Shed (Spelling Shed) for the children to complete.  In addition, we ask that children keep practising their Maths number work regularly on Numbots.  The more your child practices their spelling and number work, the better they will become at both.  Log ins are provided to the children for both Spelling Shed and Numbots. 

Reading

At Whitehill, we want children to develop a love of reading.  You can help at home by listening to your child read and encouraging them to read every night.  The more they read, the more they will become confident and fluent at reading.  Boom Reader is a digital reading record which allows you to log your child's reading activity.  

Click on the link to access Boom Reader: https://go-read.co.uk/parents/

Reading books are changed every Tuesday and Friday.

Class Dojo

Class Dojo is a way for teachers to encourage students and contact parents about their child's progress in class.  It can be used online or downloaded as an app on iOS and Android devices. Please ask if you require a copy of your log in.

We will be using this in class alongside our Good to be Green system. We will discuss the ways in which points are gained or lost during circle times to ensure that it fits in with our behaviour policy. Children can access at home to personalise their avatars. 

Daily Snack

We are currently providing the children with a daily snack which consists of a piece of fruit. Children can also bring money in to purchase rice cakes (20p) and bread sticks (10p).  

Educational Visits

RE Trip to St John's Church, 11th and 12th December

We visited St John’s Church in Dukinfield to learn about how Christians celebrate Christmas. The vicar, Mr Hayes, told us all about the importance of advent and all the celebrations that happen in the church over the festive period. It was fascinating to discover that the church is over 150 years old! We also spotted lots of different features in the church, such as the altar, lectern, stained glass windows, baptism font and pulpit.