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
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Reading books will be changed on a Tuesday and a Friday
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PE days for Spring Term are Wednesday and Friday. Children can come to school in their PE Kits on those days.
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Chester Zoo trip - 13th February
Our Long Term Plan
Useful Websites for Year 1
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www.phonicsplay.co.uk
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https://www.teachyourmonster.org/
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https://www.2simple.com/purple-mash/ - you willbe given a log in for this soon
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hhtps://wordwall.net/en-gb/community/continents
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https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
Reading
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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.
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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 Term
Our Topic is – Animals and the UK
Key learning
Geography – The United Kingdom, the four countries, capital cities and comparisons.
History – Kings and queens
Science – Animal groups. Materials and their properties
RE – What is gods job? How should we care for the world?
PSHE – Dreams and goals, and being healthy
DT – Making hand puppets
Art – Sculptures – making birds
Music – Playing untuned percussion. Composing a spring themed piece of music
Computing – Pictograms and animated story books
PE – Dance, using equipment
Key learning
Geography – The United Kingdom, the four countries, capital cities and comparisons.
History – Kings and queens
Science – Animal groups. Materials and their properties
RE – What is gods job? How should we care for the world?
PSHE – Dreams and goals, and being healthy
DT – Making hand puppets
Art – Sculptures – making birds
Music – Playing untuned percussion. Composing a spring themed piece of music
Computing – Pictograms and animated story books
PE – Dance, using equipment
Maths
Our Key learning for Autumn term is
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Place value within 20
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Addition and subtraction within 20
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Length and height, weight and volume
Please see the learning poster each week for more information
English
Our key texts and learning are listed below
Please see the learning poster each week for more information
Spring 1 - The Lion Inside
Spring 2 - The Case of the Missing Mammoth
Phonics
We will continue to work on the sounds on this mat for Spring Term.
Our tricky words will be:
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.