Hedgehogs

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Year 1

What It's Like Having a Hedgehog as a Pet - Caring for a Pet Hedgehog

Miss Emily Faull

Hedgehogs Class Teacher

Mrs Geraldine Murtagh

Teaching Assistants

Key Information

P.E

Monday and Wednesday.

Your child will need to come to school dressed in their PE kit on a Monday and Friday. Please make sure that your child has tracksuit bottoms and a jumper for colder weather.

Reading

Each child has been given a reading folder which contains their reading record, a reading book and a library book chosen by your child. They will need to bring their reading folders to school with them each day. Reading books are changed on Mondays and library books on Tuesdays. Please encourage your child to read at home every day and make a note of the book they have read and any comments in their reading diary. It is beneficial to ensure that your child reads and re reads the books they take home to help them build fluency and support them with words that they found tricky reading the first time round.

Common Exception Word Book

In Year 1 we have replaced the Key Word bookmarks used in Robins with a Common Exception Word bookmark. Common exception words are frequent words in reading and speaking that don't follow standard phonics rules and require learning by sight. These "tricky words" have unusual spellings or letter combinations, making them difficult to sound out. Every term we will add a book mark to the back of reading diaries for children to practise reading. These will not be tested on but it would be great if you could practise these with your child after they have read their reading book. Recognising these words by sight will help children to read more smoothly.

Homework

Homework will be printed out and given to children every Friday. It will also be sent out via Google Classroom. The homework will include a summary of our maths learning that week and also a list of words related to our phonics learning. This homework is optional for Year 1 but we do advise that if you can support your child with this and help embed their weekly learning that would be great!

Our Learning

Term 1

What is it like here?

Our Geography topic this term is ‘What is it like here?’. We will be focussing on aerial maps and features of our area and school. Our learning will also include going on a village walk to the local church and mapping out the route we take. In English, we begin the term by looking at the book The Three Little Pigs, where we will be re-telling the story with actions and focussing on rehearsing our sentences orally before writing them down. We will then go on to read Martha Maps It Out, where our focus will be on using labels, lists and captions. In science we begin our learning about materials. We will look at the properties of different materials and investigate which material will be strong enough to stop the wolf blowing the little pigs’ house down.

Hedgehogs Autumn Term Newsletter 2025.docx

Hedgehogs - Autumn Term - What is it like here 2025.docx