Welcome to the Year 1 Home Page

Welcome to Term 2! We hope you had an enjoyable break! Our enquiry this term is 'What makes Brislington & Bristol Brilliant?' which is described in further detail below.

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 Buckley, Miss Groves and Mrs Crawshaw.
• PE Teachers - Mr Boon & Mr Evans.

PE days

• 1KP - Monday Afternoon - Mr Boon
• 1P - Monday Afternoon - Mr Evans
• 1R - Thursday Afternoon - Mr Evans

Dates for you diary:

• Monday 10th November - Odd Socks Day for Anti-Bullying Week
• Wednesday 19th November - Children's Flu Vaccinations
• Wednesday 26th November - Individual Photographs
• Tues 2nd - Thurs 4th December - Year 1 Local Walk
• Thursday 11th December - Key Stage 1 Christmas Play
• Friday 12th December - Key Stage 1 Christmas Play
• Wednesday 17th December - Christmas Dinner
• Friday 19th December - Class Christmas Party

Writing

This term our English foci are journey stories and information texts. The texts we will study are 'Little Red Riding Hood' and 'Come to Brilliant Bristol'. Children will be studying the features of these different texts and  focus on non-negotiables such as full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. They will begin to learn about plurals and how to add use adjectives to describe. In the last week we'll explore festive acrostic poetry!

Maths

In Maths we will be learning about 2D and 3D shapes, revisit addition and subtraction and begin to understand and work with teen numbers.

Enquiry

This term our enquiry is called 'What Makes Brislington & Bristol Brilliant?'. During this enquiry we will learn about our local area and significant landmarks. We will also learn to create and use a simple map. Further details about our enquiry and our learning in the wider curriculum can be found in the Year 1 Term 2 Medium Term Plan.

Reading

Reading is crucial to everything in year one as it allows children to access more and more knowledge, as well as providing a basis for success 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 TBC

- 1P TBC

- 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 instill 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.