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

Updated: 23/04/2025 33 KB

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 – 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

Toys in Space: Amazon.co.uk: Grey, Mini ...
 


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

The Year 1 Phonics Screening Check

 

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.