Year 1
Welcome to Class 1!
Teachers: Mrs Gibson and Miss Johnson
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Higgins and Miss Timms
Thank you for visiting our class page. Here, you can find information about our topics, homework expectations in Year 1 and our P.E. lessons. You can also find some useful documents as well as being able to see updates about our learning.
Topics
Our topics for the following year are as follows:
Autumn 1- Dinosaurs
Autumn 2- Childhood
Spring 1- Poles Apart
Spring 2- People and Animals
Summer 1- Once Upon a Time...
Summer 2- Nature Explorers
Knowledge organisers will be uploaded onto the class page each half term.
Homework Expectations
READING: In Year 1, children are expected to read at home every night in order to develop their fluency, comprehension and vocabulary. All children have a homework diary in which they should record which page of their book they are up to.
SPELLINGS: Children will receive a sheet of spellings at the beginning of each half term and it includes all the spellings they need to learn each week. The spellings correspond to the phonics being taught in class. Children are expected to practise these at home and there will be a spelling test in school every Friday.
MATHS: Children have a mental maths homework book and are required to complete a double page of Maths homework per week. This goes home on a Tuesday and must be handed in the following Monday.
We also recommend that your child regularly logs on to 'Numbots' to answer questions to help improve their fluency with number.
P.E.
Year 1 will have P.E. on Mondays and Tuesdays
PE kit consists of:
School jumper
Purple PE t-shirt or yellow/purple polo shirt
Black shorts or joggers - No logo or pattern
Trainers
Forest School kit is the same as the PE kit but with a warm and weather proof coat, hat and gloves and waterproof trousers if you have a pair.
Knowledge Organisers
In Year 1 we begin to learn cursive writing. Please feel free to use the following powerpoint with your children at home to help develop their cursive style!
Cursive writing
Spelling Lists
Phonics Information For Parents
Help with Phonics
Phase 5 phonics is taught throughout Year 1 and children should be confidently reading and writing these sounds by the end of the school year. We have included a phase 5 sounds mat above so you can check the sounds your child already knows and which they might have forgotten.
By being able to read and write these sounds your child will be learning how to read and spell decodable words.
The links below are for activities that will consolidate this work.
Common exception words are words that appear regularly in day-to-day language but which can’t be decoded using normal phonetic rules. That’s why these words are both tricky and essential for pupils to learn and a word mat has been included above.