w/c Monday 23rd June 2025

In maths, Durham are focusing on money all this week.  We have been learning to recognise the notes and coins and understand the value of each.  We have then combined this with our new skill of counting in 2s, 5s, and 10s, to add notes together and find out the total.  The children would be very interested to see the real notes and coins in your purse, particularly how the different sizes compare.

Appropriately for the current weather, our focus in English this week has been ice-cream!  We have been thinking of adjectives to describe ice-cream and then have created a class poem together.  We loved the phrase, 'The tingle is like sherbert in your head'  to try to describe brain-freeze.

A typical week in Durham 1

Home Learning

Maths & Numbots

To use Numbots, for games to support number knowledge, confidence and fluency go to https://play.numbots.com/#/intro  If you need your child's log-in please ask your class teacher.

In Year 1 we practise our number bonds to 20 and counting up and back in 2s, 5s and 10s. 

We can practise spelling at home through many different activities. Use the links above to give you some more ideas. 

Reading

We recommend children in Year 1 read for at least 15 minutes a day.  Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week. You can record their school reading book or a book they are enjoying from home. 

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Your child will bring home a Read Write Inc. book every week with speed sounds to practise. Children are asked to bring these back in on Tuesday. 

Read Write Inc. Phonics

Please click on the link to view how to pronounce the Read Write Inc sounds.

Click here for Read Write Inc sound pronunciation