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 Autumn Term are Wednesday and Friday. Children can come to school in their PE Kits on those days.
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Homework each week will be spellings and a task set on purple mash
Our Long Term Plan
Useful Websites for Year 1
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
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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 – Autumn Term
Our Topic is “From Antarctica to Africa”
Key learning – Autumn 2
History - Who found the continents?
Science – How do the seasons change?
RE – What do some people believe God looks like? The Christmas story.
PSHE -Similarities and differences between ourselves and others.
DT – Designing and making windmills / Mechanisms
Music – Christmas songs
Computing – Online safety and grouping and sorting
PE – Sportsmanship – winning, losing in a wide variety of sports
Maths
Our Key learning for Autumn term is
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Place value within 10
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Addition and subtraction
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Shape
Please see the learning poster each week for more information
English
Our key text for Autumn 2 is Nibbles the book monster
The learning outcome is to write a diary entry in the first person (Nibbles) based on Nibbles’ adventures in the story
These are the skills we will be teaching
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.