Year 1 2020 - 2021

Welcome to Year 1

We are so happy to welcome back our children. In such unusual times it is more important than ever to look after our childrens personal, social and emotional well-being. Our focus this term is therefore on making sure our children are happy and safe.

As we return Year 1 will look a lot like Reception and adopt a largely play based approach to learning. This should help ease the transition into Year 1 and ensure routines are familiar. We have also decided to continue to use Tapestry to share our leanring with you and allow you the opportunity to share your learning with us.  Please ensure you are able to log into and recieve notifications from Tapestry as this will be the main form of communication between school and yourselves. In the event of any further class or school closures due to Covid-19, we wil also be using Tapestry to set work/challenges that can be completed from home and returned to us electronically. 

To help the children settle back into school life and understand any mixed feelings that may come with this, we are using The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas (see video link attached). The Colour Monster wakes up confused, his feeling are all jumbled up. Can his friend help him to identify and sort out his feelings?

Tapestry will be updated regularly allowing you to see what lovely activities the children have taken part in and what learning they have chosen for themselves.