Year 1 2024 - 2025
Mrs Cooper
Class Teacher
Mrs Coleman
SEN Teaching Assistant
Welcome to Year 1
To support your child with their phonics at home, you will find some useful files and links attached to this page. These can be referred to whilst reading together or during writing activities.
Maths
For this half term we will be focusing place value and addition and subtraction up to 20.
English
This half term we are going to be using 'The Lion Inside' to inspire our writing. Please don't read the story if you aren't already familiar with it. It's lovely for the children to learn the story together.
Reading
Please record any home time reads in your child's reading diary. This can be a story, a recipe, a comic or phonics practice. You must bring it to school every day. It also contains helpful phonics pages. Children will change the book once a week, they need to have read the book 4 times (at home and at school) to be able to change it.
Many of our children have a year 6 reading buddy. They love sharing stories together :)
RE
Our unit this half term is Galilee to Jerusalem. We will be learning about the life of Jesus as a child and some of the people who met by him and were changed by their experience.
Spellings
This half term we will be introducing a weekly spelling list. We encourage the children to practice these words at home.
PE
We will be having PE on a Monday (outside) and Thursday (inside). This term we will be continuing our football skills and developing a dance inspired by zoo animals.
Phonics games! To help the children prepare for the phonics screen check in June have a go at a few games :)
There's a fab alien game that has a Mario vibe!
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
Lots of flash card options
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Though a subscription is needed for a few of the games, there are some actvities the children are familiar with.