Welcome to Year 1!
Class 1D
Teacher - Miss Dunn
Teaching assistant - Mrs Bartram
Class 1LS
Teacher - Mrs Luck (M/Tu/W) and Mrs Standen (Th/F)
Teaching Assistant - Mrs Monk
Reminders
PE
1D: Wednesday and Thursday
1LS: Wednesday and Friday
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
This half term we will be continuing to focus on the features of a sentence. We will be using descriptive language to describe settings and characters. We will be consolidating and learning new time conjunctions to write for different purposes. We will be introduced to the exclamation mark and learn how to use it in our writing.
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/
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
Computing
RE
Music
Maths
This half term in maths, we will be learning about Place Value and Addition and Subtraction
Here are some links to different maths games:
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/partPartWhole/index.html
Science
Our focus in science for this half term is all about testing materials
Topic
(Geography/History)
Our focus for this half term is famous queens
PSHE