Welcome to Year 1!

Class 1D

Teacher - Miss Dunn

Class 1A

Teacher - Mrs Adams

Teaching Assistants - Mrs O'Shea, Mrs Leslie, Mrs Kenlay, Mrs Monk, Mrs Patel (maternity leave)

 

Reminders

PE

1D: Tuesday (Indoor) Thursday (Outdoor)

1A: Tuesday (Indoor) Thursday (Outdoor)

Please come to school wearing your PE kit on these days.

Homework

Homework will be set via google classroom on a Friday and will be due the following Friday. Please see your child's reading record for logins.

Reading

Please send your child into school with their reading record, and book everyday! 

Termly curriculum overview

Parent information

 

English

 

Phonics

Our school has chosen Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised as our new systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme to teach early reading and spelling. 

Please click on the link below which will take you to the parent support page for phonics information: 

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/ 

 

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources

 

Spelling

Below are the common exception words and high frequency words for Year 1. 

Common exception words = words that cannot be decoded using phonics. 

High frequency words = words that are frequently used in books (some are decodable, some are not).

Possible task: practise reading and writing the words!

Art

We will be creating different farmyard landscapes.

RE

In RE the children will be focussing on the key questions: 

'Who is Muslim and what do they believe?'

Maths

Place Value to 100

Money

Time

Science

Animals including humans (human body)

Topic

Geography

'My local area'

PSHE

Families and people who care for me

Respectful relationships

Online Safety: 

Privacy & Security 

No Outsiders:

My world your world

Computing

'We are detectives'

Music

In music this half term our Charanga Topic 'reflect, rewind, replay'