Welcome to Year 1

P.E.

Children are to come to school in their P.E kits on their designated days. Please ensure that your child comes appropriately dressed following school PE dress code.

Tuesday – Outdoor

Thursday – Indoor

 

Reading:

Children have all been issued with a colour banded reading book and we would also encourage children to read a range of books from either the classroom, library or home to really instil that love and passion for reading.

The Year 1 expectation is for you to read with your child minimum of 3 times per week and record it in their reading record.  A parent, carer or guardian signature will be required for each read.

Please refer to the reading records for guidance and examples on possible questions that you could ask your child about the text which they are reading.

Reading logs and reading books are expected to be in school every day as part of school equipment and will be checked and signed by school every Wednesday.

 

Spellings:

Spellings will be introduced on Monday and tested on a Friday. 
All children have access to Spelling Shed which is a valuable online tool. Children should be accessing this at home via their log on and playing minimum 5 – 10 mins per day to really embed the sounds and spelling patterns. In turn, this will help with long term memory and increase their weekly spelling scores. 

Homework:

Year 1 will receive a ‘Homework Choice Menu’ filled with fun, creative activities linked to this term’s curriculum topic – Monsters. It is a free choice menu, and the children are expected to complete at least 3 activities over each half term, with the option to do more if they wish.

Timetable

What We're Learning

Details of the Year 1 learning journey can be found here: 

Year 1 - What we're learning

Autumn Term

Autumn term is set to be full of adventure, imagination and discovery, with lots of opportunities for children to creatively learn and explore our exciting themes: Monsters!

This term in English, Year 1 will develop their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through engaging, high-quality texts and Drawing Club. Drawing Club provides an exciting, creative approach to developing vocabulary, sentence construction, phonics and early writing skills, while encouraging children to use their imagination and express their ideas. Children will practise forming letters, writing simple sentences, using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops, and applying their phonics knowledge. Through stories, drawing and storytelling, children will build confidence in speaking, develop their comprehension skills and become enthusiastic, independent writers.

Following the White Rose Maths scheme, Year 1 will develop their understanding of number, beginning with counting, recognising and representing numbers to 10 and then extending this knowledge to numbers to 20. They will explore addition and subtraction within 10, using practical resources, number bonds and part-whole models to develop fluency.  Children will also begin to explore place value within 20, comparing and ordering numbers and using mathematical language to describe numbers. Later in the term, they will learn about shape, identifying and sorting common 2D and 3D shapes and exploring their properties. Throughout the term, children will develop their ability to reason, solve problems and explain their mathematical thinking, using practical and pictorial representations to support their understanding.