Welcome to Year 1
These are our teachers and teaching assistants who help us with our learning:
Teaching Staff: Mrs Thomas and Mr. Dunne
Higher Level Teaching Assistant: Mrs Horrex
Teaching Assistants: Miss Bensley, Mrs. Mayhew, Miss Frost and Miss Paterson
Autumn 1
Under the Sea, Pirates, Fantastic Beasts
In the first half of the Autumn Term, children in Year 1 independently access play based learning activities (continuous provision) whilst completing learning activities in small groups with an adult. We call our continuous provision activities COOL jobs - choosing our own learning - and these link to our focus text for the week.
PE days are Monday and Wednesday for both classes.
Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural in Year 1
How can you help your child in Year 1?
Reading at home
This term we are exciting to be continuing to use our new reading scheme, Rocket Phonics, from Foundation Stage to Year 2. The books are all phonetically plausible and based on your child's phonics knowledge.
We hope that you are able to read with your child as regularly as possible and record any comments in their yellow log. We will be having Rapid Reading for two weeks in each half term. During Rapid Reading weeks, children read daily with an adult in a guided reading style session. There is a specific focus for the reading weeks e.g. phonics knowledge, decoding, common exception words etc. and is very beneficial in helping childrens' reading skills improve. We hope you will also see improvements in your child's reading from Rapid Reading and thank you for any comments and feedback.
Phonics
This term we will continue to build on children's phonics learning from the Foundation Stage. This will include consolidating our knowledge of phase 3 and developing our knowledge of phase 5 sounds. We use the scheme 'Rocket Phonics' to deliver our phonics teaching and use the corresponding reading books. We ensure that children are reading books that match their phonics knowledge. Please see the websites below to play some games at home:
www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3-games.html
Maths at home
At the beginning of this term, we will be consolidating our counting skills within 20 - Counting on and back, writing and recognising numbers. W will also be learning about position and direction through using the beebots to explore positional language.
Home learning is due back into school on a Thursday. Please ensure your child brings their home learning book back each week so that we can check which task they have completed. We will send home learning books back out on a Friday. Please remember only 1 piece needs to be completed each week, although you are welcome to complete more if your child wishes.