Dear parents and carers

THANK YOU so much for all your help over this first term of year 1. We have loved teaching all your wonderful children. Thank you especially to those who have helped us at the Wild Place, and with walking the children to and from the Christmas services this week. Thank you also for your very generous Christmas gifts! Have a great Christmas break and we will see you in 2025!

Numbots

Your child will have been sent home with a letter in their bag which has their Numbots username and password on. Numbots is an app you can download onto your iPad or tablet, or log into on a desktop computer. It helps the children to practice maths in a fun and more appealing way at home!

Phonics  

We have continued revising in phonics this week, alongside all the Christmas fun.  Here are some of the tricky words and graphemes we have learnt this term. Please practise if you get a chance.

Tricky words

there, their, people, your, ask, Mr, Mrs,   

could, would, should, want, our 

push, pull, into, I, you, they, are, like, come, some, 

were, little, one, when, what, says, here

Phonics 

‘ir’ as in bird 

‘ue’ as in blue and rescue 

‘u’ as in unicorn 

‘o’ as in go 

‘i’ as in tiger 

‘a’ as in paper 

‘e’ as in her 

‘e-e’ as in these 

‘a-e’ as in make 

‘i-e’ as in time 

‘o-e’ as in stone 

‘u-e’ as in tune and rude 

‘ew’ as in chew and new 

‘ie’ as in shield and ‘ie’ as in pie 

‘aw’ as in claw  

Useful reminders

• Spring term starts on Tuesday 7 January 2025 

If you have any questions feel free to email us.  

• Emma (Beech) on emmaw@htpd.surrey.sch.uk 
• Emily (Oak) on emilyr@htpd.surrey.sch.uk  
• Laura (Oak) on laurah@htpd.surrey.sch.uk 

Have a lovely weekend,  

The Year 1 Team