Welcome to Class 1

Dear Parents and Pupils,

I hope that you all enjoyed some of the wonderful weather during the Easter Break and that you are all refreshed and ready for the summer term ahead.

We are very happy to welcome 3 new children into the class; Scott, Raven and Florence have all joined the Nursery cohort!

We have an exciting learning Context to start the summer term – Bugs’ Life!

In Art – We will explore drawing and painting, using charcoal and paints to draw insects and bugs!
In Design and Technology – We will be tasting and evaluating a range of bread products, and we will design and make a bread product!
In Computing - We will be using Word and searching the Internet to create a Mini Beast Fact File.
In Geography – We will be mapping out the local village, creating maps with keys of the school field and creating a garden on a tin lid!
In History – We will explore communication right back to cave drawings, telegrams, telephones, email and sign language!
In Science – We will be investigating the diet and habitats of different insects, we will look at the life processes and begin to classify insects based on several physical features. 
In Music – We will sing, explore quiet and loud sounds, we will continue to learn to play the glockenspiels.
In PSHE- In Relationships - We will find out about the NSPCC underwear rule, discuss the difference between being unkind, teasing or bullying, find out who can help us, learn how to listen carefully and how to pass on praise! 
In Growing and Changing – We will think about things we can do now that we couldn’t when we were babies, think about how to look after a new baby, label external body parts and veins and find out how to keep privates private!
In PE – We will learn how to play tennis with Bethan, Cricket with Fraser and football and multi skills with Rowan!
In RE – We will explore the origin of the universe and look at different creation stories

Routines
All the routines remain the same, with the exception of PE, we will have Cricket on Wednesdays, Tennis on Thursdays and Football on Fridays.

Carmel is no longer coming into school each Tuesday as she has been successful in gaining an apprenticeship in a nursery in Carlisle! We wish her all the best!

Homework and Reading
Reception children
All children are well into the routine of reading at home every night. I really cannot stress how important reading is particularly at this early stage of learning. Reading feeds into everything else your child does at school. Please remember you do not have to finish the reading book, 5 or 10 minutes of reading the book, talking about the characters and what has happened in the story is the perfect amount of time.

Year 1 children
All Year 1 children have reading books to read at home each night, and in addition, weekly homework and spellings to learn and practise. We will give out spellings and homework on Monday and ask for both to be returned to school by Friday.

Communication
Mrs Evans, Miss Simpson, Miss Harrison and I are always available for a chat at the start or the end of any day and we would urge you to come in and see us at your earliest convenience should you have any concerns, or questions about what is happening at school.

Equally, should you need to speak to us on the telephone, or arrange an appointment to speak confidentially to us, please leave a message with Mrs Lawson and we will contact you as soon as we possibly can. You can email me at head@irthingtonvillage.cumbria.sch.uk

If there is no one in the main office, please leave a voicemail and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

We are all really looking forward to the term ahead with your children and hope that they all enjoy the curriculum, visits and other exciting opportunities that we have planned for them.

Yours sincerely,

Lynn Harrison. 

Headteacher