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
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 – 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.