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 enquiries and important dates below.

Year 1 Staff

• Teachers - Mr Rayner, Miss Pringle & Mrs Patch.
• LSAs - Miss Buckley, Miss Groves and Miss Workman.
• 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 your diary:

• Friday 5th June - Crazy Hair Day
• Monday 8th - Friday 12th June - Year 1 Phonics Screening Assessments
• Friday 19th June - Summer Fair
• Wednesday 24th June - Sports Day

Writing

This term we will study rhyming poetry, recounts 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 (to be added soon).

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 - Fridays

- 1P - Wednesday

- 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

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.

Homework

In Term 6 Year 1 children receive a short weekly homework to help prepare them for regular homework in Year 2. The homework will revisit some of the learning recently covered in class. The children may require some support to access the homework so your support is greatly appreciated.