Beech Grove Primary School
Year 1
Summer Term 2024
Head Teacher Message
Happy sun shine days everyone and welcome to summer term 2024. Let’s hope this terrible wet weather from over the Easter holidays disappears soon and Mr sun comes out to play!
On behalf of the staff I would like to wish everyone a happy return after the Easter break and hope that summer term 2024 is a good one for our whole school community.
As Head teacher of your school, I continue to be so proud of all of the children and the way they have started back since returning in September 2023. Their resilience, adaptability and hardworking attitudes to learning remain outstanding. It is such a pleasure to see the children care so much and take pride in all of their work and the school environment.
They are certainly living up to the schools “NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR QUALITIES” that we have of:
- Respect
- Tolerance
- Kindness
Along with our 5 Golden Rules. The “Next Door Neighbour Qualities” is something that is really important to our school and encourages everyone to be a good citizen within our school and wider community. To see the children demonstrating all of those essential ‘Next door neighbour qualities’ on a daily basis is a heart-warming thing to see and brightens up my day.
The children’s corridor manners and the way they conduct themselves around school is wonderful.
I also love it that so many children are eager and keen to show me their work in their books. This sense of family and belonging warms my heart also. I couldn’t be any prouder of our Beech Grove Family.
This term we hope to pick up where we left off before Easter with our children achieving good progress within their core subject areas of Reading, Writing and Maths, due to the tremendous hard-working attitude of themselves and the dedicated staff team here at school.
This term we will also be hoping for some lovely summer sunshine so that children can make full use of our Secret Garden in lesson time and maybe plant some wonderful summer flowers for us all to enjoy. Especially when it comes to our summer attendance reward ice-cream and ice lolly parties!!
Our teachers have lots of interesting activities and trips planned for this term and hope that you will enjoy hearing what children have been working on at consultation meetings/phone conversations, and will support them with their homework and reading outside of school.
AS ALWAYS Please, please, please x10000 keep encouraging your child to read at home. Reading is the key to unlocking the world!
We also hope that every effort is made by you for every child to attend school regularly. It is so important for your child’s development. We can’t stress this enough. Thank you for your huge efforts last term in trying to really improve our punctuality. Keep up the great work. WELL DONE!
Don’t forget those children who have a 95% and above attendance in school for the term get an invite to their key stage’s attendance parties. This term its ice cream treats and ice lollies in the secret garden. Please help your child achieve this reward. Not forgetting also, the BIG attendance prize where we have bikes and scooters (all with helmets to go with them) to give away in our attendance prize draw. As well as the seasonal family hamper.
Here’s to a really positive Summer term!
John Dixon
English
We will be working hard in our new Read, Write, Inc. groups every morning and bringing home a book that we have read in our lessons. We think you will be very impressed as our reading skills improve. Please listen to your child read their book and write down any comments about their reading and return the book each week. Thank you.
In our classes we will be writing a sentences using ‘Fred fingers’ to spell words. We will be focussing on saying our sentence before we write it down, using finger gaps, capital letters and punctuating with a full stop.
We will enjoy reading a range of different stories this half term based around London: ‘The King’s Pants’ by Nicolas Allan and ‘Paddington at the Tower’ by Michael Bond. We will be writing our own versions of these stories, adding in our own ideas and focussing on writing a sequence of sentences that link and make sense using a wide range of punctuation, including question marks and exclamation marks.
After half term, we will be reading the story ‘Two can Toucan’ by David McKee and will create our own story about a different tropical rainforest animal. We will also be writing our own rainforest poems towards the end of the year.
Maths
In maths this term we will be consolidating all of the number work we have done throughout the year.
We will be learning to count in twos, fives and tens and linking this to multiplication and division. We will also be taking on the times table challenge too. Look out for us bringing home our 10, 2 and 5 times tables to practise. We will also be learning about fractions; how to half and quarter shapes before moving onto fractions involving numbers and learning how to share and group numbers evenly.
After half term we will move onto looking at place value and ensuring we can all count from 0 to 100 in ones and back from 100 to 0 (please practise at home-especially crossing those tricky multiples of ten). We will also be learning how to tell the time to o clock and half past. Then we will be looking at money and will practise how to count using coins and notes.
Your child will continue to complete ‘Rapid Recall’ three times a week, to help them become more fluent with these key number skills. Please encourage your child to finish these off at home, to help them reach the next stage.