Year 1
Welcome to Year 1!
There are three teachers in Year 1 – Mrs Ruddle/Mrs Whittaker and Miss Swann. We also have Mrs Kemp 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 Hassall. 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 Hassall
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!
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Monday 4th November
INSET – no children in school
Tuesday 5th November
Welcome back
Fridays:
8th 22nd 29th November
Workshops
Monday 11th November
Remembrance day
Friday 15th November
Children In Need Day – details to follow
Monday 18th November
Anti bullying week
Friday 29th November
Nativity costume deadline – details to follow
Tuesday 3rd December
Christmas Craft day – please wear old/ scruffy clothes just in case
Weds 4th December
Thurs 5th December
In school Dress rehearsal
Thurs 5th December
FROGS Christmas fair 6-8pm & story time with SANTA
Friday 6th am December
Monday 9th pm December
Nativity performance (Ticket information to follow)
Tuesday 10th December
Science Activity day
Thursday 12th December
Christmas Crafts Sale
Monday 16th December
Christingle Trip – additional information to follow
Wednesdays 18th December
Christmas party – more details to follow
Friday 20th December
Xmas jumper day
Last day – Christmas holidays
Monday 6th January
Welcome 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 1 visit the school library each Monday 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.
Home learning challenge work will be handed out each Wednesday and will be due in the following Wednesday . This may include peelings (red words), maths, phonics and 'I wonder..' challenges.
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.
Here are our Knowledge Organisers for the term so you can share our "I wonder ... " questions 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.