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 Bateman, 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
Year 1 Weekly Timetable
Useful Websites for Year 1
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
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 – Summer Term
Our Topic is “Terrific Toys”
Key learning
Geography – Making and using maps
History – toys over time – comparisons of toys within living memory
Science – Plants and seasonal changes – spring to summer
RE – How do we know that new babies are special? Why should we care for others?
PSHE – Relationships and belonging to a family. Changing me.
No outsiders - My World your world (Melanie Walsh)
DT – Mechanisms – making moving toys
Art – Simple print making
Music – Under the sea and space themed music
Computing – Purple Mash. Coding and Lego builders
PE – Aim strike and retrieve. Tag Rugby
Maths
Our Key learning for Summer term is…
- Multiplication and division (2,5,10)
- Fractions
- Position and direction
- Place value within 100
- Money
- Time
Please see the learning poster each week for more information
English
Our Key texts are
Summer 1 – Toys in space
Learning outcome:
To write a fantasy story about some toys who are taken onto a spaceship. They will be changing the characters in the story
Summer 2 - Goldilocks and just the one bear
Learning Outcome: Write a new version of the story with a new character or new setting
Please see the learning poster each week for more information
Phonics
We will begin Summer revisiting previously taught sounds and then will practice the sounds on the following mats, blending them in preparation for the phonics screening checks.
Phonics Screening Check
This term 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.