Welcome to Year One 

A very warm welcome to Year 1 2023-2024. Miss Breed and Miss Jones are the Year 1 teachers with Mrs Emery, Mrs Williamson and Miss Jones 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 Autumn term include;

Science – Animals including humans – Where we will be learning to identify and name a variety of common animals.

Geography – Human and Physical Features – Where we will be exploring the local environment, including creating a simple map!

Narrative – Where we will be sequencing a story to support writing an alternative ending.

Science – Where we will be learning about everyday materials and identifying what material objects are made from.

Art – Where we will be learning about the Artist Paul Klee and using a range of materials to design a product

Computing – Where we will be understanding what algorithms are.  

In Mathematics, we are going to consolidate our learning of place value and introduce addition and subtraction, in which we will encourage the children to use lots of apparatus in order to add and subtract.

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.