Bidborough Church of England Primary School

Bidborough C of E Primary School

Class 1

Welcome to Class 1!

Teaching Staff

Teachers: Mrs WatkinsTeaching Assistants - Mrs Rutherford (M, Tu, W &Th) and Mrs Spring (F)

Meet the Teacher

Meet the Teacher

Learning Lens - 15th May 2026

Thank you all for a lovely welcome into Year 1! 

This week, we have started our new reading book 'Rabbit and Bear'. We are learning about rabbits so we can write a fact file about them. We have learnt about the main features of a fact file which are: title, introduction, heading and images.

In Geography, we have been focusing on our local area of Bidborough. We have drawn maps. We have mixed our art topic in with Art and have created collages using the key landmarks in Bidborough.

In Maths, we are looking at fractions and what makes a quarter. We know that it means a whole split equally into 4 parts. We are making sure we recap half regularly to remind ourselves of what it means.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Watkins

Reminders:

- Reading books will be changed as soon as possible after a child has read the book. Please use your child’s planner to record their home reading. Just the title and the pages read is fine. If it is not signed, then we will assume you need that book for a bit longer. If your child has read a book already or finds any book ‘easy’ then this is GREAT! Repetitive reading will support children’s comprehension and impact their fluency and spelling.

- PE is on a Thursday. The timetable may change so please make sure your children have a full labelled PE kit in school every day. PE kits to be in a separate bag from their school bag. 

- Numbots NUMBOTS 

- All uniform is to be labelled.

- A water bottle and a healthy afternoon snack in school every day. 

- If the children would like to bring in something to share with the class for show and tell then only 1 share a week that is linked to the Home Learning below or personal achievements. 

 Home Learning 

 SPAH :

  • This weeks Phonic sound:  or
  • Our sentence this week is : The tall tower was made of forks.
Reading:
  • Please read to/with your child every day. 
  • Reading menus are in the children's planners
Maths:
  • Numbots log-in's are inside planners. Please use this to continue practicing maths at home.
  • Please take a look at the 1 minute maths resource below. This provides short, fun activities allowing the children to consolidate their learning. 
Click here to download the app
OTHER HOME LEARNING IDEAS:
  • Practise your number formation by writing out number 0 - 50.
  • Measure different objects in your house. 
  • Draw a well balanced meal for a herbivore, carnivore or an omnivore.
  • Create your own story. 
  • name a label different parts of the human body. 
  • How are different animals groups? What are their features? 
  • Play a game of catch - work on that hand eye coordination. 
  • What is Lent? Why is Easter important to Christians? 
  • Free choice! Any learning you have done at home that you would like to bring in and share with us, we would love to see it.