Welcome to the Year 1 Home Page

Welcome to Term 6! We hope you had an enjoyable half term break! Our enquiry this term is 'How have holidays changed in Weston-Super-Mare?' which is described in further detail below. Please see our Medium Term Plan for information on what content we cover this term.

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

Year 1 Staff

• Teachers - Mr Rayner, Miss Pringle & Miss Simmonds.
• LSAs - Miss Buckley, Miss Andrews, Miss Groves & Mrs Law.
• PE Teachers - Mr Boon & Mr Evans.

PE days

• 1S - Monday Afternoon - Mr Boon
• 1R - Tuesday Afternoon - Mr Evans
• 1P - Friday Morning - Mr Evans

Dates for your diary:

• Friday 13th June - Summer Fair
• Wednesday 18th June - Sports Day
• Friday 20th June - Non-Uniform Day
• Tues 1st, Weds 2nd & Thurs 3rd July - Year 1 Class Assemblies
• Friday 4th July - Celebration of Culture Day
• Wednesday 16th July - Year 1 Weston-Super- Mare Trip
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Writing

This term we will study Rhyming poetry and Explanation texts as well as complete end of year assessments. We will revisit many of the features and skills covered this year to help prepare the children for their move up to Year 2.

Maths

In Maths we will be learning to work with larger numbers (to 100). We will also be learning about money including recognising coins and notes and counting small groups of coins. We will also begin to learn about time including the days of the week and months of the year as well as reading 'o'clock' and 'half past' times. 

Enquiry

This term our enquiry is called 'How have holidays changed in Weston-Super-Mare?'. During this enquiry we will learn about how Weston has changed since the Victorian era. We will also learn about Weston's physical and human features. Further details about our enquiry and our learning in the wider curriculum can be found in the Term 6 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 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-

- Tuesday 1S

- Tuesday 1R

- Wednesday 1P

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.

Spellings

From Term 3 the children will take a weekly spelling test. The Term 6 spellings are a mixture of common exception words and words which include some of the trickier phonemes/graphemes covered in phonics. Spellings will be sent home at the end of each term. Please encourage the children to practise these as often as possible. The children can use the provided practise grids to practise their spellings but this is not compulsory as different children prefer to practise their spellings in different ways. The practise grids do not need to be returned to school.