Year 1 Friday Blog - 5th December
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 9:15pm
Dear parents,
Welcome to the Year 1 Friday blog!
Each week you will find out what we have been doing in class, our weekly spellings, reminders and lots more!
Every Friday, the blog will be shared with the class to recap our learning and make them aware of their homework.
Moving to online homework has allowed us to become a more eco friendly school.
Reading
Reading books have been sent home in bags tonight along with a personalised sheet of sounds for your child to practise.
Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night and fill in their reading record.
Question prompts can be found in reading books, on coloured book marks and in reading records. Asking questions improves key comprehension skills. If your child is struggling to read a word, encourage them to use their phonics fingers to segment and sound it out. Can they spot any digraphs? (2 letters, 1 sound). Once they have segmented the word, ask them to blend it together.
Please note that reading books will be changed on a Tuesday and two books will be given to each child to read for the week . Please write a note in your child's reading record book when a book has been completed and sign the relevant parent signature box. This allows for an easy change as we know if the book has been read.
This week the children have been working hard across the curriculum as well as preparing for our Christmas Play.
Rainbow Raffle
Thank you for the donations towards our class rainbow raffle hamper. It is much appreciated. As you already know, our class has been assigned the colour ORANGE. Please see the dates below:
Please bring donations into school by Monday 15th December.
Hampers will be raffled off at our carols in the hall on the afternoon of Thursday 18th December. Tickets were sent home in bags on Monday. Please return any money and ticket stubs in an envelope to the school office. Any unsold tickets can be sent back to the office also. Thank you for your support in making this a fun and colourful event for our school community.
The children have all chosen a book from the school library today. They will have the option to change these every FRIDAY. Please spend time sharing these stories with your children.
Safety in PE
We would like to remind all parents that for the safety of all children and following guidance from Chorley SSP, jewellery is not to be worn during PE. This includes earrings, bracelets and watches. All children will be asked to remove their jewellery at the start of every PE lesson. This will ensure their own safety during the lesson and the safety of others. If a child is unable to take out their own earrings, adults in school will not be able to do it for them. This will mean they will have to take another role in the lesson such as observing, coaching or officiating.
For this reason, if your child is not confident taking out earrings, please do not put them in on our PE days. This year, our PE lessons are on Wednesday and Thursday, however we may also have extra lessons on other days throughout the year.
Thank you for your support in keeping our children safe.
End of Day Routine
- Children will only be allowed to go home with adults listed on the safeguarding form, unless school has been contacted to state otherwise.
- Children will be dismissed one at a time. Please let the adult on the gate know who you are picking up and they will then call the child.
- We kindly request that all children are dismissed prior to teachers/ Teaching Assistants being approached by parents.
- Should any child need to come back into the classroom, we will allow them back into the room after all of the children have been dismissed.
Have a lovely weekend,
from the Year 1 team
