In Year One we are enthusiastic and ambitious learners! This year is about developing our numeracy and literacy skills as we enter into Key Stage 1. We are continually adding to our range of Maths skills and developing our fluency in Maths. We love doing our Mental Maths sessions each day! We are making great progress with our phonics knowledge and becoming strong readers. We are also learning writing skills and developing the ability to write well structured but exciting sentences. This year we also get to explore the wider curriculum; Science, History, Geography, RE, Design Technology, Art and PSHE! We are learning so much about our world and are looking forward to some exciting trips and activities.
PE
PE days are Wednesday and Thursday. Please come to school wearing your PE kit on these days.
Forest School
Forest school is fortnightly on a Wednesday. Children need to bring in a spare change of clothes that they do not mind getting a little muddy.
Reading
We expect children to read at least four times a week at home – an adult needs to sign when they read in their reading record and reading books need to be in school every day.
Our class books for this year are: Ruby’s Worry, Last Stop on Market Street, Perfectly Norman, Six Dinner Sid, The Knight who wouldn’t fight, The Queen’s Hat.
Phonics
In Year 1 children consolidate Phase 2 sounds first
s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, l
Then these sounds next…
j, v, w, x, y, z, qu, th, sh, ch, ng, nk
and then finally these sounds…
ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, er
Visit our phonics page for parent guides to help you support your child with learning phonics at home.
Homework
Homework will be sent home on Fridays, and is expected back in on the following Friday.
We expect children to read at least four times per week, practise their Maths skills on Doodle Maths and practise their spellings that have been set in their Phonics groups.
Homework is expected to take the children around 20 minutes.
Our Learning
Details of learning in our class can be found in Our Learning pages.
What an excellent session we had today! The children created amazing creatures using clay and things we had foraged such as twigs, leaves, conkers and more. They thought carefully about the shape of their creature and added features such as …
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Well done to all of Year 1 for another wonderful Forest School session. We had a lot of fun playing some team games – can your child teach you 1,2,3 where are you at home? The Forest School adults were …
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What a wonderful first session Year 1 had in Forest School. They listened very carefully to our Forest School rules, played some wonderful team games, applied themselves sensibly and enthusiastically to our colour activity and then enjoyed some explore time. …
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Year 1 were so lucky to be the first year group to get to participate in Forest School today, they had a great time exploring colours in nature with Mrs Dixon.
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Year One have been learning all about textiles in Design Technology. They have explored ways to join fabric, including stapling, using safety pins and glueing. They will be designing their hand puppets and deciding on the joining techinque they will …
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Felix in Year 6 played his cello for both Year 1 classes this morning. He answered questions about the instrument and joined in with their Elves and the Shoemaker song. Thank you for inspiring the next generation Felix!
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Year 1 had a brilliant time at Radstock Museum! They explored the museum and learnt about the history of our local community and area. They particularly liked pulling the mining carts!
Read MoreYear I have begun their unit on multiplication. We have have done lots of counting in twos, fives and tens. We have had fun playing games of finding equal groups by rolling the dice and looking for the same number. …
Read MoreIn DT, Year One have learnt about sliders and how they can be used in moving pictures to make a character move horizontally or vertically. Year One children all made their own moving pictures with one of the characters from …
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On Tuesday morning, Year 1 were lucky enough to have a visitor from Wessex Water. We learnt where our water comes from and even had a chance to filter dirty water. We learnt about how water can be a liquid, …
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