Year 1
Welcome to our year group web page! Here you will find lots of information about Year 1. We hope you enjoy viewing our web page and discovering more about what we have been learning about in school.
Meet the team
Miss Skelding - 1 Tomlinson Teacher
Miss Barnham - 1 Donaldson Teacher
Mrs Atherton - Year 1 Learning support
Mrs Whyle - 1 Donaldson Teacher on Friday
Mrs Bagail - Year 1 Learning Support
Year 1 class names and author link
Our class authors are Jill Tomlinson and Julia Donaldson. Our classes are named after these influential writers, because they have an excellent and high-quality range of Children's Literature.
1 Donaldson
1 Tomlinson
Year 1 start and end of day handover information
At the start of the day the gates are open at 8.45am. Children and their adults are to line up by the Year 1 paddock gate. A member of Year 1 staff will be with on the gate to welcome the children into school. Any messages can be passed onto the member of staff who will relay this back to your child's class teacher.
The bell at the end of the school day is 3.20pm. The school gates will be open at 3.15 for parents to begin to line up outside the Year 1 paddock gate. Children will be released through the gate at 3.20pm.
Keeping Year 1 pupils safe
During release, it is vital that safeguarding is maintained and children are collected promptly and safely. If for any reason you have to send an alternative adult to collect your child, please ensure you inform the school office. They will ensure this information is passed onto the Year 1 team.
These are extracts from our Positive Interactions Policy
Protective behaviours
We have a Protective Behaviours culture and children regularly identify and update their Network Hand. This ensures that children know which adults they can approach if they are worried, however ‘awful or small’.
Proactive social media reminders
We send regular and proactive reminders to parents regarding social media and always request you check pupil devices regularly and have full access to all their devices and accounts. By working together in this way we work towards keeping pupils safe.
Learning 4 Life
Our Learning for Life lessons allow us to be proactive with teaching children how to keep themselves safe, learn about relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education.
Year 1 curriculum overview
Throughout Year 1 the children are exposed to a balanced and varied curriculum, which has been carefully curated to meet the needs of the children.
Across the Autumn term the children are carefully transitioned from the Early Years curriculum through appropriately planned child-initiated activity sessions. This allows the children to move onto a more formal curriculum, however play-based activities are incorporated where appropriate to support the children and their holistic learning throughout the year.
Daily the children receive:
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x2 Phonics/Spelling sessions, 1x Maths and 1x Literacy lesson.
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3x a week children will receive a Reading lesson per day.
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1x a week children will do P.E, Science, R.E, Geography/History (rotated half termly), Art/D.T. (rotated half termly) and Learning for Life.
Key texts throughout the year
These are the texts the children will focus on throughout their Literacy learning journey. Often we make irresistible links to other topics across the year using these texts, to engage learners in a range of different ways.
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
Mathematics Curriculum
We have made a conscious decision to use White Rose as a product; however, we have created our own curriculum overview for Maths. Teachers will use this curriculum overview to deliver the majority of the units outlined within each strand, using White Rose as a supporting resource (example of the curriculum overview is below). As teachers follow the learning journey, pupils will experience mathematics through the CPA and Singapore Maths approach. This ensures that mathematics remains pictorial and enables pupils to use a variety of strategies to solve problems – thus removing barriers and ensuring mathematics is accessible to all. The curriculum has been specifically designed to give pupils the time to master each skill. Early mastery of skills is also encouraged, as skills from the following year group have been naturally linked to, which removes the ceiling on learning outcomes.
There are mathematical units that will be taught using a cross-curricular approach. Pupils should expect to be taught statistics and time through other areas of the curriculum, such as Geography and Science. This enables children to see that mathematics is not a stand-alone subject and has an impact within other subject areas. This also allows for more time within mathematics lessons to teach other units in greater detail and address any misconceptions or gaps in knowledge.
Curriculum subjects
Autumn Term | Spring Term | Summer Term | ||||
Art |
Sculpture |
Collage |
Printing |
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Computing |
Exploring Purple Mash and Online safety Technology outside the classroom |
Maze Explorers Coding |
Spreadsheets Animated Stories |
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Design Technology | Cooking and Nutrition | Mechanics | Construction using textiles | |||
Geography | History focus |
Local Geography The U.K. |
Planet Earth | |||
History | Guy Fawkes | Geography focus | Beaches from over 100 years ago | |||
Learning 4 Life |
Proud to be me Protective behaviours Be Safe, Be Kind |
Aiming High Fit 4 Life |
Perfect Planet | |||
Music | Hip hop music | Reggae music | Latin music | |||
Physical Education |
Net and Wall games Gymnastics |
Dance Invasion games |
Striking and fielding games Athletics |
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Religious Education |
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Beginning to learn Sikhi: Part A. Stories of the Sikh Gurus. What do Christians believe God is like? |
Holy places: where and how do Christians, Sikhs and Muslims worship?
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Science |
Animals, including humans |
Materials |
Plants |
Preparing for Phonics screening
At the end of Year 1, normally the second week of June, children will sit the Phonics Screening Test. This seeks to test whether children have learned to decode words using phonics to the required level. Children are expected to sound out and blend graphemes to read simple words. Throughout the year, we will be sitting various practise tests to help prepare the children and every day children will be taught two phonic sessions. Below you will find some phonic assessment materials that may support you at home to help your child.
2018 Phonics Screening Check: Answers
2018 Phonics Screening Check: Words
Transition into Year 2
Towards the end of the academic year there is transition days allocated where the children will have the chance to meet their new Year 2 Teacher and get to know them.
There will also be a "Meet the Teacher" evening where you have the chance to listen to the Teacher's discuss the changes/transition to the new year group and allow parents to ask questions.
Year 1 home learning and Reading books
As a school we follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds revised scheme. Your child will read to us once a week and a member of staff will write a comment in their reading record. Children's books will be changed weekly.
Your child will bring home a library book and reading practice book that has been carefully matched to your child's current reading level. If your child is reading it with little help, please don't worry that it's too easy-your child needs to develop fluency and confidence in reading.
Listen to them read the book each night. Remember to give them lots of praise-celebrate their success. If they cannot read a word, read it to them. After they have finished, talk about the book together and write a comment in their reading record daily.
Book bags and reading records need to be in school daily.
In order to encourage your child to become a lifelong reader, it is important that they learn to read for pleasure. The sharing book is a book they have chosen for you to enjoy together. Please remember that you shouldn't expect your child to read this alone. Read it to or with them. Discuss the pictures, enjoy the story, predict what might happen next, use different voices for the characters, explore the facts in a non-fiction book. The main thing is that you have fun.
Children will also receive a piece of Phonics and Maths home learning each week which will be set on a Friday. Children need to return their home learning the following Friday and this will be marked. Please remove any marked home learning from their folder each week.
Useful links
Please find some links to support your child with home learning
Maths:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=Year%201
https://www.youtube.com/user/JackHartmann (Really useful songs to learn numbers/shapes ect)
https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/learning-home-packs/
English:
https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/learning-home-packs/
https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-5454.htm
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
Phonics:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
https://phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/
Water bottles and snacks
Children must bring in a water bottle everyday with water. As we are a healthy school, we encourage all children to only bring pure water and not bring in squash or flavoured water.
Children also, receive a morning break time wherein we encourage adults to send in a healthy snack e.g. fruit. There is free fruit available to children everyday too.
If you have any questions, please come and ask.
PE Days and Kit
Our Year 1 PE day is Monday, so please make sure your PE kit is brought into school on the first day back and stays in school until the end of the half-term. This is then sent home over the holidays to be washed and must be sent back in, on the first day back to school.
Kit includes:
- A plain white polo top/plain white T-shirt (you can purchase a top with the TM logo)
- Shorts/Joggers (weather dependant)
- A pair of pumps
- A black hoody with a zip is ideal for the colder weather.
P.E. normally takes place in the dance studio, but there will be occasions where the outdoor playground/field may be used.
Year 1 parental support and engagement
Throughout the year we host a variety of parent Phonic parent workshops. These will take place at different points in the year and staff will make parents aware of these through a letter.
If there is any support parents need with anything staff are always available for a chat at the end of the day. Any messages can be passed onto other members of staff if your child's teacher is not on the gate in the morning.
Year 1 Handwriting
As a school we follow the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised Scheme. For handwriting, we use the Little Wandle letter formation rhymes to help support our children with letter formation. Please see the below guidance for support.