Year 1

Welcome to Year 1

Homework

Homework will be sent out every week on a Friday and needs to be returned the following Wednesday. Homework tasks can be selected each week from the ‘menu’ in their homework book as well as daily reading and spelling practice.

Spellings

There will also be a set of spellings included within the homework book. You can practise them inside the book or in by using Spelling Shed. You will find your Spelling Shed login inside your homework book. There will be a spelling test each week on a Friday. We will send your results via a message on MyEd or Dojo.

Reading

There will be one reading book sent in your homework pack each week. This is a colour banded book which matches the RWI group you are in. Once you have read the banded book, please indicate this in your Reading Record. Please read these books as much as possible, as it helps to build up fluency. We also encourage you to read books that you have at home and record them in your Reading Record. The more the better! 😊

PE will take place every Monday and Thursday. Children can come to school wearing their full PE kit (dark joggers or shorts, white t-shirt, black trainers, dark hoody, zipped jacket or blue school jumper).

Thank you for your support,

Year 1 Team 😊

Timetables

Nightingale

What We're Learning

Details of the Year 1 learning journey can be found here:

Year 1 - What we're learning

Please note, this page will be updated termly, so please keep checking back.

Autumn Term

Year One have made a great start to the new academic year. Mrs Doyle, Miss Foden and Miss Coop are delighted with how well they have adapted to the transition from Reception into Year One!

Theme Week was an exciting way to kick off the year. Our theme week, inspired by the bold, uplifting spirit of The Greatest Showman, was designed to celebrate uniqueness, creativity, and the power of dreaming big. Just like the film’s message – that everyone deserves to be seen, heard, and celebrated—we kicked off the year creating a learning environment that ensures every one of the children feels valued, inspired, and proud of who they are! What a great week it was!

Our Topic for Autumn term is ’Monsters'. We will be continuing learning how to segment and blend sounds through the RWI phonics programme. In English lessons, we will be reading stories all about Monsters to inspire our writing. We will be working on building simple sentences to include capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

In Maths, we will begin by working on place value of numbers 1 - 10. We will then move on to the Addition and Subtraction block of learning, with lots of exciting ways of working out number sentences and recognising each of the symbols. We will also be looking at 2D and 3D shapes and their properties this term.

Along with Art, Geography, ICT, Music, RE, PSHE, Science and PE – we have a very exciting term of learning coming up! We can’t wait to see what the children achieve!