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
Years 1, 2 and 3 AHT
Year 1 Donaldson class teacher
Miss Evans
Year 1 Tomlinson class teacher
Mrs Lemon
Year 1 HLTA
Mrs Atherton
Year 1 LSP
Mrs Francis
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. Pupils and their adults are to line up by the Year 1 paddock gate. A member of Year 1 staff will be at the gate to welcome the pupils 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. Pupils will be released through the gate at 3.20pm.
Keeping Year 1 pupils safe
During release, it is vital that safeguarding is maintained and pupils 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 pupils regularly identify and update their Network Hand. This ensures that pupils 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's 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, pupils are exposed to a balanced and varied curriculum which has been carefully planned to meet the needs of the pupils.
Key texts throughout the year
These are the texts the pupils will focus on throughout their English 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 2 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, 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 pupils 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
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Art |
Sculpture |
Collage |
Printing |
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Computing |
Exploring Purple Mash and Online safety Technoogy 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, pupils will sit the Phonics Screening Test. This seeks to test whether pupils have learnt to decode words using phonics to the required level. Pupils are expected to sound out and blend graphemes to read simple words. Throughout the year, we will be sitting various practice tests to help prepare the pupils and every day pupils 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 are transition days allocated where the pupils 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 discussing the changes/transition to the new year group and allow parents to ask questions.
Year 1 home learning and Reading books
Reading is more than just decoding a text and ‘reading’ the words on the page. Reading is all about being immersed into another world – a world of fantasy, magic, heroes and villains; a world of exploration and discovery; a world in which to escape reality, exploring emotions and supporting well-being. Reading is an essential life skill that we strive for all our pupils to master by the time they leave us at the end of Year 6. Therefore, we need you to work in collaboration with us.
Home learning
Pupils will receive a piece of Phonic and Maths home learning linked to what they have been doing in class. This will be sent home on a Friday and pupils will need to return it on a Wednesday for the class teacher to mark.
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
Pupils must bring a water bottle every day with water. As we are a healthy school, we encourage all pupils to only bring pure water and not bring in squash or flavoured water.
Pupils are allowed to bring in a healthy snack during tuck time. There is also free fruit available.
PE Days and Kit
Our Year 1 PE day is Tuesday, so please make sure your child's PE kit is brought to 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. .
- Black or navy shorts and a white t-shirt, or black or navy tracksuit bottoms and sweatshirts. Tracksuits must be plain and not have logos.
- Properly fitting black pumps or plimsolls.
- No jewellery to be worn.
- Everything should be labelled with your child's name.
- P.E. kit should be in school every day.
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 that 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 pupils with letter formation.
Supporting families and phonics