Welcome to Year 1!
On this page you will find information detailing what your child will be learning this year along with useful information and updates. This year, we’ve got some lovely activities and themes planned so don’t forget to look at the knowledge organisers below to see what the children will be learning in each subject this half term.
Please continue to use ClassDojo to contact staff and keep up to date with exciting opportunities and experiences.
PE DAYS: MONDAY AND FRIDAY
Please note that children need to come into school in their PE kit on a day when they have PE. As a reminder, the P.E. kit consists of:
· Black leggings or tracksuit bottoms or shorts
· Red PE top
· Black jumper
· Trainers/Wellies
Meet the Staff
Miss J Moore
Year 1 Teacher
Mrs R Colloff
Year 1 Teacher
Mrs J Cruxton
Teaching Assistant
Miss C Wood
Teaching Assistant
Miss F Podmore
Teaching Assistant
Homework
Reading
Reading on a regular basis is vital when children are in year one. Children will bring their reading books home every evening and the role of the adult is to listen and support them. Please remind them to use their decoding strategies when they come across an unfamiliar word- this could be sounding it out, using the pictures to help or finding words within words. Your child will have a questioning prompt page at the back of the guided reading book – it’s important that children can discuss what they have read to deepen their understanding of a text. Please make sure that the reading is recorded in the ‘boom reader’ app each time your child reads.
Phonics and Spellings
Your child will have a daily phonics session following Little Wandle. Interwoven into these sessions will be high frequency words and words linked to the particular sound or spelling pattern learnt. Please practice these words with your child at home. Spellings are included in their homework books which follows our Little Wandle scheme.
Maths task
A piece of Maths homework will be sent on a weekly basis. Work will be set which reinforces the learning that has taken place in the classroom that week and that will develop basic skills. This will be sent out on a Friday and be due in the following Thursday.