Welcome to the Year 1 Home Page

Welcome to Term 1! We hope you had an enjoyable Summer and enjoyed the sun! Our enquiry this term is 'What Am I?' which is described in further detail below. Please see our Medium Term Plan above 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 & Miss Simmonds.
• LSAs - Miss Buckley, Miss Andrews & Miss Groves.
• 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 you diary:

• Monday 2nd September - INSET Day
• Tuesday 3rd September - INSET Day
• Friday 20th September - Friends of School Fun Day
• Friday 25th October - INSET Day
• Monday 4th November - Term 2 starts

Writing

This term our English foci are problem & resolution stories and instructional texts. The texts we will study are 'Funnybones' and 'How to Trap a Dragon'. Children will be studying the features of these different texts and  focus on non-negotiables such as full stops, capital letters, finger spaces and time conjunctions.

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 Year 1 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-

- Monday 1S

- Tuesday 1R

- Friday 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.