Year 1

Welcome to Year 1!

Welcome to Year 1 where we love to learn at every opportunity.

We spend a lot of our time learning through games, songs and practical activities. We have lots of fun becoming historians, readers, writers, artists plus many other things.

This page will be updated throughout the year with important information, photographs and updates about our learning journey.

Welcome to our classroom

Important days for parents

Tuesdays: Library books changed.
Wednesdays: Homework folder due in (with spelling wordsearch)
Wednesday and Friday: PE - please send children into school in their PE kit.
Friday: Spelling check of 5 words within school.

Weekly Timetable

Monday to Friday

8.45 - 9.00 - Morning Registration
9.00 - 9.45 - Phonics
9.45 - 10.20 - Maths
10.20 - 10.40 - Break
10.40 - 11.00 Maths continued
11.00 - 11.45 - Writing
11.45 - 12.00 - Reading
12.00 - 1.00 - Lunchtime
1.00 - 2.00 - Wider curriculum subjects such as Music, Art, History, Geography, PE, DT etc.
2.00 - 2.10 - Daily Mile outside
2.10 - 2.45 - Wider curriculum subjects such as Music, Art, History, Geography, PE, DT etc.
2.45 - 3.20 - Assembly
3.20 - Home time

Our PE days are Wednesday and Friday - please ensure children wear their PE kit to school on these days.

Reading

In Year 1 it is important that the children are able to read a wide variety of books as well as listen to stories and books. The children will bring home their phonically regular books as well as a library book each week. A little and often approach to learning to read is the best so we advise 5-10 minutes each night of reading to an adult.

What are we learning this term

English - basic sentence structure and grammar as well as writing fiction and non fiction texts.

Maths - Place value within 10

Science - 'The Human Body' and 'Materials'.

Geography - What is it like here? Learning about our local area and where we live in the world.

History - How I am making history? Learning about our place within history.

Art - Exploring lines and shapes in drawing.

DT - Mechanisms including wheels and axles

RE - How did the world begin? Discussing a variety of beliefs.

Class reading

We love reading books in Year 1. We read a story every day. Some of these will be linked to our topics and others will be the children's choice. We will also look at various texts within our whole class reading lessons. Below are some of the titles that we will be looking at.

Not Now Bernard
How Spiders Live
Harry's Hamster
Spaghetti! Spaghetti! (poetry)
Big City Atlas
Hide and Seek
My Bottom's Gone Missing
The Boy and the Lion
If I were (poetry)
The Magic and Mystery of Trees
The Emperor's Egg
Mog, The Forgetful Cat

Homework

Homework is a mixture of online learning and a piece of paper homework each week. We expect children will access Numbots for 5 minutes each week, practise their spellings and complete a test on SpellingFrame each week and complete their Oxford Owl quizzes. If you have any difficulties with any of these, please let me know.

Notices and Reminders

Photo Gallery

Take a look at what we've been getting up to.