Welcome to Year One!  

 

Athens Class - Our Teacher is Miss Booth

Barcelona Class - Our Teachers are Miss Jones and Miss Hulme

Our Year 1 Teaching Assistants are: Miss Gray, and Miss Amson 

Miss Friesner and Sports Coaching Group cover our classes when our teachers have planning time (PPA) 

Key Information

Reading books will be changed on a Tuesday and a Friday

PE days for Autumn Term are Wednesday and Friday. Children can come to school in their PE Kits on those days.

Homework each week will be spellings and a task set on purple mash

Useful Websites for Year 1

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

https://www.teachyourmonster.org/

https://www.2simple.com/purple-mash/ - you will be given a log in for this soon.

https://wordwall.net/en-gb/community/continents

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

 Reading

We expect the children to read at least 3 times per week. Children who do this will get a stamp and work towards reading prizes.

An adult in school will read with the children at least once per fortnight

Reading books will be changed on a Tuesday and a Friday if the books have been read.  Please write in the reading diaries

 

Our learning this term – Spring 2

Our Topic is “Kings and Queens”

 

Key learning

History – When did some of our kings and queens live?

Science – Materials and their properties

RE –  How did the world begin?

PSHE – Healthy Lifestyles

DT – Designing and making hand puppets (textiles)

Music - To compose a piece of music based on a fairy tale and notate using a storyboard

Computing – Understanding and beginning to create algorithms.

PE – look run and avoid, throw, prepare, catch, agility, balance, coordination, team games. 

Maths

Our Key learning for Spring Term 2 term is:

Place value within 50

Length and height,

Mass and volume

 

Please see the learning poster each week for more information

English

Our book for this half term is “The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth” See the grid  below for our learning in this unit.

Phonics

We will begin the Autumn Term revisiting previously taught sounds on mat 2, and then moving onto new sounds on mats 2 and 3

 

Phonics Screening Check

In year one the children will take  part in the statutory assessment of phonics. This takes place the week commencing 9th June 2025 and will be a test of their ability to read words using the phonic sounds taught. This includes real and “alien” words ( words which are not real but require the children to apply their phonic knowledge

 

Spellings

At the end of each week your child will be sent home with spellings based on their phonics learning for the upcoming week.
The spellings will link to the mats above as well as “tricky words” (words which cannot be spelt using phonics)

They are sent on a Friday and then tested the following Friday.