Welcome to the Year 1 Home Page

Welcome to Term 1! We hope you had an enjoyable Summer! We are looking forward to welcoming the children back to school and helping them settle into their new classrooms and routines!

You will find information on our current term’s enquiry and important dates below.

Year 1 Staff

• Teachers - Mr Rayner, Miss Pringle & Mrs Patch.
• LSAs - Miss Groves, Mrs Garland, Mrs Roberts & Mrs Ellis
• PE Teachers - Mr Boon & Mr Evans.

PE days

• 1R - Thursday Afternoon - Mr Evans
• 1P - Friday Morning - Mr Boon
• 1KP - Friday Morning - Mr Evans

Dates for your diary:

Writing

This term we will focus on the basic skills of writing including sentence structure, applying phonics to spell, punctuation such as capital letters and full stops, finger spaces and rereading our work to check it makes sense.

Maths

In Maths we will be learning about Place Value within 10 and Addition and Subtraction. 

Enquiry

This term our enquiry is called 'What Am I?'. During this enquiry we will learn about different parts of our bodies and our 5 senses. Further details about our enquiry and our learning in the wider curriculum can be found in the Term 1 Medium Term Plan.

Reading

Reading is crucial to everything in Year 1 as it allows children to access more and more knowledge, as well as providing a basis for success in writing and maths. While the school encourages children to read to adults at home 3 times a week, we would recommend building a daily reading routine from the outset and in Year 1 we do not set homework until Term 6 in order to allow for this. Many parents find this daily routine easier to remember and prefer morning or last thing at night reads - whatever fits best into your busy schedule.

Children can change their books on the days below-

- 1KP - Friday

- 1P - Friday

- 1R - Thursdays

Reading at Home

This year children will get 2 books a week. One book is a decodable book for your child to read to you! One is a 'sharing book' (usually larger than the decodable) which you can read with/to your child to inspire the love of reading and instil the wonder of being read to. Reading books will continue to be changed once a week.  Children need to read their 1 book repeatedly to build up the essential skills of fluency. As adults we would find this boring, but children thrive on repetition to build confidence and essential reading skills.

Reading Skills

We will continue to read new texts each week in order to enhance our reading skills. In year 1 we use the Twinkl Reading Dogs to talk about different reading skills. See the attached document below to learn more about Inference Iggy, Predicting Pip, Rex Retriever, Sequencing Suki and Vocabulary Victor and bring them and their question types into your daily reading at home.

Spellings

Weekly spelling tests will start later in the year - Further information will be shared when necessary.