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‘Is Home Where The Heart Is?’

Project Overview

This term our REAL Project has a Geography focus. We will be learning all about Liverpool, Great Britain and the continents. We have two exciting trips planned; one to the waterfront and the Museum of Liverpool and the other is a ‘Magical Mystery Tour’. In Science we will be learning all about animals, including humans, and where they live. We will look at some of the wonderful buildings in Liverpool and will learn about some famous Liverpudlians. The final outcome of our REAL Project will be a concert when we will sing songs that we have learned as part of our famous Liverpudlians work.

Year 1

We have already had a great time meeting and getting to know the children. You may find that your child is very tired at the end of the day until they become used to the new routines of Year 1. The curriculum (what the children are taught) is different and how it is taught is very different. Learning in Year 1 is more formal with fewer opportunities to learn through exploration or play. We can’t wait to get our teeth into our first REAL Project. We also look forwards to getting to know you all too. If you have any questions / concerns please ask to speak with us – the end of the day is usually better for us.

Reading

The children will all have books to take home in a named plastic wallet by the end of the first full week in school. Reading is so important so we encourage you to read with your child every day (it only takes a few minutes). Please help us by writing in the blue home-school reading record when you read with your child. This helps a lot because we can then move the children on to new books more quickly. Reading books need to be in school every day – we never know when we will be able to squeeze an extra read in.
Important Dates Date Event 11.10.19 Trip to the waterfront and the Museum of Liverpool – children to come to school in their school uniform as usual. 25.10.19 Break up for Half Term 4.11.19 Return to school 12.12.19 Project Final Outcome – Concert at 9:30 20.12.19 Break up for the end of term

Spellings

Spellings will be sent home on Fridays and the children will be tested on them the following Friday. There are lots of ways to help your child to learn their spellings; some ideas are: use the ‘look, cover, write, check’ method (where you look at the word and say the letters, the word is then covered up and your child tries to remember the word and writes it down then you check whether the word was spelt correctly); when more confident that your child can spell the words, see how many times they can write the word in 30 seconds (the children love this one!); chant the letters of the word whilst marching, clapping, stamping etc.

PE

Our PE lessons are on Tuesdays and Fridays. Please leave PE kits in school for the half term. Space is tight on our corridors, so to keep the children safe please put PE kits in a plastic bag or a pump bag / draw-string bag; no back packs please. Please make sure that all your child’s clothing and footwear is clearly named (not just PE kits). Getting 30+ children changed for PE is so much easier if we can find everyone’s clothes at the end of the day!

Birthdays

We love celebrating special days with the children. We would really appreciate it if, when you send cakes into school to share, that they are already cut into pieces.

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