Year 1 2024 - 2025

Mrs Marshall

Mrs Bailey

Welcome to the Year 1 Homepage!

The Year 1 team are Mrs Marshall, Mrs Bailey, Miss Franklin and Mrs Davies.

Here you will find out everything you need to know about what Year 1 are getting up to in school.

Autumn Term

PE DAY: MONDAYS AND FRIDAYS

Please send your children into school in PE kit on Mondays (AmaSing) and Fridays (Gymnastics). It is important that earrings are taken out prior to children coming to school unless they have been recently pierced in which case they should be covered with tape before they come to school. This is for everyone's safety.

Thank you.

The term

In English our new book will see us meet a cheeky little monster taking us on adventures through different fairytales. During this half term, the children will be continuing to work on joining words to make simple sentences using capital letters and a full stop at the end of each question. They will also be introduced to the conjuction 'and' to join words. As always, there will be a real focus on applying their phonic knowledge to their spellings and working on the Year 1 tricky words. In Year 1, everytime we write, we try our best to correctly form our letters and sit them neatly on the line.

Although the children won't be bringing home spellings, they will continue to develop their spelling knowledge in school.

We would encourage you to read daily with and to your children and to notice rhyme, pattern and spelling whilst you are reading.

In Maths, children will look addition and subtraction within 10, including different ways of adding and subtracting within 10. They will be introduced to the part whole diagram and will continue to use manipulatives and pictorial representations to support their understanding and use of vocabulary. They will also gain an understanding of positional language, as well as directional language for left and right. The children will continue to take part in Mastery Maths for 15 minutes, 4 days a week to help build their maths fluency.

Miss Anders will be teaching us Science and Geography and we will be learning about changing seasons what they are, comparing and contrasting them, observing and noting changes across the seasons describing weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies. We will also be learning about seasons relate to the months of the year.

In Music we will be using our Charanga music programme to develop our ‘musical heartbeat’. Our lessons will focus on finding and trying to keep a steady beat, simple rhythm patterns using long and short and simple melodic patterns using high and low.

Over the half term we will enjoy warming up our face, body and voice ready for singing, develop skills in moving in time with a steady beat, copying back simple long and short rhythms with clapping, copying back singing simple high and low patterns and copying back rhythmic words.

We will also be learning lots of new songs for our Christmas performance – more information on this to follow later in the term.

In RE we are looking at why Christians celebrate Christmas which involves considering what we mean by the word ‘precious’, exploring the idea of gifts and the value of gifts, particularly the emotional value of giving and receiving.

We will be enjoying a Christmas joke advent calendar throughout December so be prepared for lots of festive fun!

In our PSHE lessons we will be learning different ways to accept other people’s play, ways we can express our feelings, that it is okay to agree and disagree with other people and how to be respectful when we don’t agree. We also explore ways to keep ourselves safe in friendships and this includes respect for ourselves and each other. We also explore safety in terms of some parts of our body being private and this is another way to keep ourselves safe.

We will be working through the first two modules in our myHappymind programme which focus on developing an understanding of our brains and learning about character strengths, celebrating those strengths in ourselves and in others. Our PSHE and No Outsiders programme supports this work, focusing on developing relationships.

Throughout the term we are developing a class emotional toolkit linked to different Zones of Regulation (Red Zone, Blue Zone, Green Zone and Yellow Zone), increasing our self awareness of emotions and our understanding of how to express these. Each week we choose a different strategy to practice and decide which Zone we might use this strategy in. This term will be be practicing the following strategies: stand up tall,find a quiet space and do stillness (sit with hands on knees or on the table, and count to 10 as you breathe in for 3 seconds and out for 5 seconds), colour counting (choose a colour, and see how many things you can see that have that colour in them), finger breathing, stand up tall, stretch it out, yoga poses.

Our PE days will be Mondays (AmaSing) and Fridays (Gymnastics with Mr Bell) so please send children into school in PE kits on these days.

For safety reasons please can children with long hair have their hair tied back on PE days and children with earrings take their earrings out at home before they come to school. Anyone with newly pierced ears should come to school with tape over their ear rings.

School uniform - please remember to clearly label clothing (including PE kit, hats, coats etc) so items can easily be returned to the children if they go missing. Please send your child into school every day this half term with a suitable coat for the time of year. We go outside for breaks when it is raining so the coat will need to be waterproof.

Please use the tabs above to find out more about what your child is learning about in English and in Maths and for some educational games. Also, using the links above you will also be able to access key information linked with how to contact us and a reminder of what your child needs to bring in each day.