Year 1

Welcome to Year 1!

There are three teachers in Year 1 – Mrs Ruddle/Mrs Whittaker and Miss Swann. We also have Mrs Strawson on our team who teaches Miss Swann's class on Mondays. 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!

Monday 24^th February	Inset
Tuesday 25^th February	Welcome back to school
Fridays: 28^thFebruary 7^th March 14^th March	Workshops
Tuesday 4^th March Wednesday 5^th March	Parents evening
Thursday 6^th March	World Book Day – children can come in fancy dress or pyjamas and bring in their favourite book
Thursday 6^th March Friday 7^th March Mon 10^thMarch Tuesday 11^th March	Scholastic book fair in the library
Monday 17^th March	Animal visit
Monday 17^th March	Assessment week, we do not publicise this with our children but we will be completing Phonics and maths assessments during this week as part of our regular progress checks.
Friday 21^st March	Red nose day
Tuesday 1^st April	Easter Bonnet Parade – please can your child make/ decorate a bonnet to wear. We can't wait to showcase these around school in our parade. More details to follow.
Friday 4^th April	Grange has got talent finals
Friday 4^th April	Last day of our Spring term.
Tuesday 22^nd April	Welcome back after the Easter holidays 😊
TBC	Phonics Screening parents meeting

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 Thursday and will be due in the following Thursday. This may include peelings (red words), maths, phonics and 'I wonder..' challenges.

What do we learn in Year 1? Click here to see our Year 1 curriculum overview and our latest termly newsletter.

Click here to download our Year 1 Curriculum Overview

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

Autumn Term 1 - I Wonder... What makes me me?

Autumn Term 2 - I Wonder...How do People Celebrate and I Wonder...How Have Toys Changed?

Spring Term 1 - I Wonder ... How Can We Get There? Knowledge Organiser

Spring Term 2 - I Wonder ... is it a world of imagination?

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.

Phonics screening check: information for parents

Reading

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

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.

Mathematics

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.

Spellings

Year 1 Common Exception Words

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