Welcome to Year 1!
A warm welcome from the Year 1 Team - We hope you find our page useful!
Mrs Sarah Smith teaches Class 3 on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Mrs Sarah Jones teaches Class 3 on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
We also have wonderful support staff working with us across the week too:
- Miss Samantha Higgs
- Miss Lucy Gledhill
Miss Hannah Page teaches Class 4 on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Miss Leeds teaches Class 4 on Thursdays and Fridays. Miss Leeds and Miss Page share the teaching on Wednesdays.
We also have the wonderful Mrs Maria McDowell supporting us throughout the week.
We have fun outdoor learning at Forest School, led by Mrs Laura Peck. We also enjoy music lessons with our specialist teacher, Mrs Aggi Scaber.
- Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday, so please make sure your child has a full (named) kit in school on those days.
- Please include trainers, leggings or jogging bottoms in your child’s PE kit so that we can go outside as much as possible.
- All jumpers and water bottles should be named. Please check labels regularly as the names do fade!
- Water bottles, book bags and reading books should come into school every day.
- Please fill your child’s water bottle with fresh water every day.
- In warmer weather, please send your child to school with a hat and apply sun-cream before school, as we are not able to apply it at school.
- We send home a reading book every Monday, which is kept for one week. Please ensure your child has their reading record and book in their bag EVERY day, so adults can hear them read in school.
- Please try to encourage your child to read at home at least 3 times a week, and write in the Reading Journal each time.
- You can use the questions at the back of the book to check if your child has understood what they have read.
- Spellings go home on a Friday, which are always linked to the phonics they learned last week.
- We do a spelling check on the following Friday.
- Later in the year we will be giving your children Times Table Rock Stars logins. Please encourage your children to play regularly.
- In year 1 we learn our 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
Please read our Curriculum Letters so that you can help to support your children's learning. We publish a new one each term so you can see what your child is learning throughout the year.
Curriculum letters 2024-25
Term 2 spellings
Term 3 Spellings
Handwriting in KS1
Please practise reading and spelling the Year 1 word list and play games with the sounds on the sound mat.