Year 1
Welcome to Year 1!
There are three teachers in Year 1 – Mrs Ruddle/Mrs Whittaker and Miss Swann. We also have Mrs Wheeler on our team who is currently teaching in Year 1 whilst Miss Swann is on maternity leave. Our teaching assistants are Mrs Clarke, Miss Wheat and Mrs Hassal. Our aim is to ensure that the children experience a smooth transition from the Foundation Stage to Key Stage One. The Year 1 curriculum builds upon and extends the experiences that children have had in Reception. Learning through play will continue to be an important part of the school day during the autumn term, and the children will gradually be eased into more formal learning as the year goes on, so that they remain motivated, enthused and eager learners.
Miss Swann
Mrs Ruddle
Mrs Whittaker
Mrs Wheat
Mrs Clarke
Mrs Hassal
Important notices
Every child should arrive at school on time and ready to learn. We will open our gates at 8:35am and children need to have arrived by 8:45am to ensure they do not receive a late mark in the register. The gates will shut promptly after 8:45am. Being on time each day will enable your children to receive the best of their learning opportunities.
The children will be doing P.E with Mr. Oliver each week on a Wednesday. Your child should come to school wearing their PE kit.
Please ensure you sign up to WEDUC at the start of the year as we do not want you to miss any important information.
Please contact the office if there are any changes with personal details e.g., new address or change to mobile phone numbers.
Please ensure that school uniform is labelled.
Diary Dates!
- 16th and 17th October – Parents Evening
- 25th October – Break up for half term
- 4th November – INSET day
- 5th November - Back to school
Reading and Homework Expectations
The children will have many opportunities to read and enjoy books throughout the week at school, especially in shared reading sessions and through listening to our class text. Children in Year 4 visit the school library each Wednesday where they can choose both fiction and non-fiction books.
We ask that children read at home as often as possible, ideally 10 minutes each day and that they record this in their reading diaries. Reading at home and discussing books with your child is a great way to build on and improve not only their reading fluency, but also their wider reading skills such as inference and comprehension. Regular readers who record it in their reading diary are rewarded with bronze stickers.
Spellings are given out every Friday and your child will be tested on these the following Thursday.
Homework will be handed out each Friday and will be due in the following Tuesday. Sometimes homework will consist of projects which last a few weeks. We will inform you when this is the case.
Times Table Rockstars
Fluency in all the multiplication tables up to 12x12 is important for children in Key Stage 2. Many of the concepts covered in the Year 4 mathematics curriculum require children to be fluent in recalling their times tables facts. Due to new government requirements, Year 4 children will complete a Times Tables assessment at the end of the year.
Times Tables Rock Starts is a fantastic tool for your child to practise their skills. Once logged in to Times Tables Rock Stars, children can compete in ‘Battle of the Bands’ against the other Year 4 class, compete with their friends and children around the world. Your child’s log in details and password remain the same as last year... Just a quick 10-minute practice every day will have a huge impact on their development in this area. Children are rewarded for their efforts on TTRS and we are able to see where they have excelled and where they may need some additional support.
What do we learn in Year 1?
Click here to download our Year 1 Curriculum Overview
Please read this half-term newsletter to see how you can support your child's learning at home.
End of Year 1 Expectations
Here you will find information for parents and carers on the end of year expectations for children in our school. The staff have identified these expectations as being the minimum requirements your child must meet in order to ensure continued progress throughout the following year.
All the objectives will be worked on throughout the year and will be the focus of direct teaching. Any extra support you can provide in helping your children to achieve these are greatly valued. We will hold parent workshops throughout the year to help support you with this, such as phonics workshops and maths drop ins.
If you have any queries regarding the content on this page or want support in knowing how best to help your child please talk to a member of the Year 1 team.
- Identify which words appear again and again.
- Relate reading to own experiences.
- Re-reads if reading does not make sense.
- Re-tell with considerable accuracy.
- Discuss significance of title & events.
- Make predictions on basis of what has been read.
- Make inferences on basis of what is being said & done.
- Reads with pace & expression, i.e. pause at full stop; raise voice for question
- Knows difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.
- Writing simple sentences that make sense.
- Sequencing sentences to form own short narratives.
- Demarcating some sentences using capital letters and full stops.
- Using adjectives in simple sentences.
- Beginning to use a range of sentence starters including time conjunctions to order writing.
- Joining words and sentences using the conjunction and.
- Using a capital letter for some proper nouns.
- Beginning to use exclamation marks and questions marks.
- Beginning to use some prefixes and suffixes where no change to the spelling of the root word (un-, -s, -es, – ing, -ed, -er, -est).
- Segmenting spoken words - spelling many correctly and making phonetically plausible attempts at others.
- Spells words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught.
- Spelling many Y1 common exception words.
- Forming capital letters and digits correctly - using a consistent size and beginning in the correct place.
- Using spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters.
- Count to & across 100, forwards & backwards from any number.
- Read & write numbers to 20 in digits & words.
- Read & write numbers to 100 in digits.
- Say 1 more/1 less to 100.
- Count in multiples of 1, 2, 5 & 10.
- Know bonds to 10 by heart.
- Use bonds & subtraction facts to 20.
- Add & subtract:
- 1 digit & 2 digit numbers to 20, including zero.
- Add any three 1-digit numbers with a total up to 20.
- Solve simple multiplication & division with apparatus & arrays.
- Recognise half and quarter of object, shape or quantity.
- Sequence events in order.
- Use language of day, week, month and year.