Lemurs

Mrs Glover and Miss Dymond (Class Teachers), Miss Bright (PPA cover) Mrs Johnston, Mrs Jackson and Miss Anderson (Teaching Assistants)

annaglover@greentrees.wilts.sch.uk

louisedymond@greentrees.wilts.sch.uk

This week in Lemurs Class: Week beginning 7th September 2026

We are very excited to start our first full week in Year 1!

Here is Phonics Joe:

As authors we will be recapping our knowledge of chapter 2 and 3 phonemes and applying this to read and spell words.

This week…

As authors, we will have our first whole class reading sessions and begin to explore the book ‘Farmyard Hullaballoo’ by Giles Andreae. We will recap the character vocabulary Victor and learn the meaning of the words ‘faithful’, ‘clamber’, ‘gobble’ and ‘drowsy’. We will apply our phonics to segment and blend to read words from the text.

As mathematicians, we will be sorting and counting objects.

We will continue our new enquiry, ‘What are we?’ and will identify and draw our favourite animals.

As athletes, we will be beginning our dance unit and fitness unit. Please make sure your child has bought in their PE kit ready for this.

Our role play area is a vets.

Reading

Our weekly visits to the school library take place on Tuesday so please ensure your book is in school to swap that day.

Story Suitcases:

Each Friday, a pupil is chosen to take home a Story Suitcase. Inside the case, there is a story book, a book review notepad and a story prop. We ask that an adult read the story aloud to promote the love of reading. Children may enjoy using the prop to engage with the story while listening to it, or to re-enact it afterwards. We ask that the story suitcase is returned to school on Monday morning.

Book Changes:

Children will have books changed once a week on the following day:

Monday – Chestnuts

Tuesday – Limes

Wednesday – Oaks

Thursday – Sycamores

Reading for Pleasure:

In Year 1, we get to know the following books really well. We have a daily story vote to choose the book that is read to us!

Year 1 Enquiries

Our enquiry in Term 1 is ‘What are we?’ We will be scientist and artists.

— for a summary of our Autumn Term 1 learning.

— for an overview of enquiries in Year 1.

Pupil Voice

School Councillor:

Eco-Councillor:

Celebration Assemblies

In our weekly Celebration Assemblies at each site, we present awards, certificates or stickers for the following:

Learner of the Week
Birthdays
Team Point Milestones
Golden Mile
Pen Licences

You are very welcome to join us for these assemblies in support of your child.

Maths Passports

We encourage children in Lemurs to practise their mental arithmetic as often as possible at home. Maths Passports are a good way to support this. Next to each skill in Maths Passports, there are three boxes to date. One for pupils (self-assessment), one for parents and the final one for teachers as follows:

We endeavour to check Maths Passports as often as possible.

On the Mathematics page, within the Curriculum menu, is a guide for parents to support the assessment of Maths Passport skills. Assessment tasks can also be downloaded and printed for use at home.

P.E

Our P.E days are Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Home Learning

As well as reading, phonic flashcards, high frequency words (animal cards, to read and spell), maths passport activities and Mathletics, we send home a home learning activity every other Wednesday. This will be emailed, added to our class page and posted on Tapestry.