Welcome to Year 1!

Class 1D

Teacher - Miss Dunn

Teaching assistant - Mrs Bartram

Class 1SL

Teacher - Mrs Luck (M/Tu/W) and Mrs Standen (Th/F)

Teaching Assistant - Mrs Monk

Reminders

PE

1D: Tuesday and Wednesday

1SL: Tuesday and Wednesday 

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

We are currently teaching phase 5. We will also be practicing pseudo words (real / fake words).

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/DT

RE

Maths

This half term in maths, we will be learning about:

Multiplication and Division

Fractions

Geometry - Position and Direction

 

Science

Our focus in science for this half term is all about

animals, including humans.

Topic

(Geography/History)

Our focus for this half term is all about 'The Weather'.

PSHE

Computing

Music