Welcome to Year One 

Welcome to Year One – Spring

A very warm welcome to Year 1 2025-2026. Miss Breed and Mrs Norris are the Year 1 teachers with Miss Mannion and Miss Hall supporting learning.

In Year 1, we follow the National Curriculum and our morning consists of Maths, Phonics and Curriculum learning. We link all our learning to a range of exciting topics which engage the children and immerse them in fun learning.

Our curriculum topics this Spring term include;

History – How have toys changed over time?

Narrative – Penguin by Polly Dunbar (writing a setting description and recount)

Poetry and Art week – simple printmaking

Geography – Seasons and weather

In Mathematics, we are going to consolidate our learning of place value and introducing addition and subtraction, in which we will encourage the children to use lots of apparatus in order to add and subtract. We will also be introducing measurement – length, height, mass and volume.

Phonics –Phonics is the gateway to the world – good phonetic knowledge and the ability to read enables great things! Daily phonics lessons and reading at home enable this. Don’t forget that there are lots of ways to read – magazines, comics, recipes, street signs etc.

PE – our PE day will be on a Friday. Please send your child to school in their full PE kit (making sure they have a cardigan/jumper to keep them warm as some of our lessons will be outdoors!)

Thank you for your continued support!

The Year 1 team.