Welcome to the Year 1 Home Page

Welcome to Term 5! We hope you had a lovely Easter! Our enquiry this term is 'Where are our capital cities?' which is described in further detail below. Please see our Term 5 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:

• Monday 27th April- 1P trip to St. Luke's Church
• Wednesday 29th April- 1R trip to St. Luke's Church
• Thursday 30th April- 1KP trip to St. Luke's Church
• Monday 4th May- Bank Holiday
• Thursday 21st May- FoS Non-Uniform Day 
• Friday 22nd May- Inset Day 

Writing

This term our English foci are 'beating the monster' stories and 'letter writing'. We will study 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and we will also write a letter to tell a friend about one of our amazing capital cities! Children will be studying the features of these different texts and focus on non-negotiables such as full stops, capital letters, finger spaces.

Maths

In Maths we will be learning about grouping and sharing numbers. As well as looking at fractions and position and direction. 

Enquiry

This term our enquiry is called 'Where are our capital cities?'. During this enquiry we will learn about the four capital cities of the UK. In Computing we will be creating audio using the apps Scratch Jr. and Garage Band! Further details about our enquiry and our learning in the wider curriculum can be found in the Term 5 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 - Fridays

- 1P - Tuesday (Term 5 only)

- 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.

Spellings

From Term 3 the children will take a weekly spelling test. During Term 5, each week's spellings will alternate between CEW's and focus digraphs. 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.