Year 1
Welcome to our Year 1 class page!
Class Teachers - Mrs Whittaker Monday and Mrs Martin Tuesday-Friday
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Roberts
Year 1 is an amazing year and we can't wait to share it with your child! In Year 1 your child will be making the exciting transition from Early Years to Key Stage One. Our mornings will gradually become more structured with daily Maths, English, Guided reading and Phonics sessions. Phonics is a key element of Year 1 life, and we practise regularly to ensure all our children are equipped to decode and blend words. Our aim is to ensure all children reach their full potential and develop a love of learning. This involves building a curriculum that suits each child in our class. Our foundation subjects are in the afternoons and we plan to ensure they are fun, inspiring and engaging to find out what we are learning please read our curriculum overview.
School Closure
-Read a book of Oxford owl.
-Topmark games for counting in 2's, 5's and 10's
-Handwriting.
-Year 1 spellings
Homework
Phonics and home reading.
Click on the powerpoint below to read through important information about Year 1.
Year 1 Curriculum
Homework
Phonics and home reading.
English
This term we have been working on:
-capital letters
-full stops
-finger spaces
-letter formation
We were able to demonstrate all we have learnt by writing some fantastic sentences to describe Elmer. In Autumn 2 we will be learning all about nouns and verbs.
We loved our Reading for Pleasure and Phonics Session with our parents and carers. They were really impressed with how hard we are working!
Reading Buddies Y6 and Y1
PAThS
Year 1 have been learning how to give compliments with help from Twiggle!
We also learnt the compliment song before giving our Pupil of the Day their compliment
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As part of our daily practice, we celebrate all the wonderful things about each other with our PAThS Pupil of the Day!
We give our POTD compliments - this could be something they're good at, something we like about their appearance or something about their character.
Our POTD is encouraged to give their self a compliment and this is taken home for a compliment to be given at home too. #PAThS #PSHE
P.S.H.E
We've been talking PANTS! We know we have the right to say 'No!' and that a safe adult (that we trust) will always listen to us if something makes us feel upset or worried.
I believe .......
Year 1 To Know You More Clearly
Branch 1 Creation & Covenant
We listened to the story of creation and explored it through our golden box. Why not ask your child to retell the story to you at home. They have been very busy thinking of ways that we can look after the world God gave us. I am sure they have been talking about picking up litter and turning the light off at home.
Stay and Pray
Humanities
Year 1 have enjoyed learning about toys from the past this half term. They had a special workshop also from As Creatives.
Maths
We have been learning all about Place value. We love outdoor Maths. We used the large tens frames and fir cones to represent numbers. We have also been practising our counting and writing our numbers. Part-Whole models helped us with our addition work too.
In Autumn 2 we will be focusing on Place value to 20. We will be working hard on our addition and subtraction skills in our mental math sessions.
Science
In Science we have been learning all about different materials. We enjoyed investing different materials and their properties. We had so much fun exploring which materials were waterproof. This led us to finding out all about the scientist Charles Macintosh.
In Autumn 2 we will be focusing on seasonal work including how the weather is reported and measured. We will then start our new topic ‘animals including humans.
Attendance superstars!
We are trying to get 5 stars so we can have a pizza party! We love it when our whole class are in school and we have 100% attendance!
Meeting our Year 6 Buddies
We met our Year 6 Buddies who will be a great help to us all this year throughout Year 1!
P.E.
During our PE lessons we have been learning fundamental mult- sport skills. We have had so much fun with Connor and learnt some fantastic skills along the way. In Autumn 2 we will be completing dance lessons with Emma. We can’t wait for you to come and watch what we have learnt in our Christmas Nativity.
Spanish
We are so lucky to be learning Spanish in Year 1. I am sure you will agree that they are developing brilliantly. Why not ask your child to count to 20 at home or to tell you the name of different food and drinks.
Art
Wow! The children have loved their art topic this term.