Good afternoon,
Tomorrow and Thursday year 1 will be learning about how their body is different from each others’ and how they are changing from reception to year 1.
This will be focusing mainly on observations like, “They wear glasses but I don’t,” or, “I have freckles and some people don’t.”
“I can tie my shoelaces now,” or, “I get myself dressed for school now I’m in year 1.”
The only non-statutory learning will be names of male and female private body parts, which we will complete tomorrow.
We will teach them by reading the following book with children.
After reading, we will explain that when we talk to certain people (like doctors or teachers) we should try to use proper scientific names but we can use the other names if we forget.
At Newdale, we feel this learning is essential and can help safeguard our children. Children who know the correct words can, for example, better explain where a medical problem is to a professional. If you opted to withdraw your child from this lesson, they will be complete separate work naming other body parts (e.g. stomach, or arms, fingers). However, we cannot guarantee that their classmates will not discuss what they learnt with them.
Thanks,
Year 1 team
