Year 1 2024 - 2025

Welcome to Year 1!

There are 3 classes in Year 1 this year: 1B, 1R and 1M. The class teachers are Miss Browning (Class 1B), Miss Rigby (Class 1R), Ms Hardy and Mr Hoye (Class 1M).
We have five teaching assistants who also work with us: Ms Toft, Mr Carpenter, Ms Rasha, Miss Hoey, Miss Daulby. Ms Hardy will be teaching in 1M Monday-Wednesday and Mr Hoye will teach in 1M on Thursdays and Fridays.

This half term we hope that the sun will be shining and we are so excited to learn and explore together in our final term of Year 1! We will be spending lots of time helping our lovely Year 1's get ready for their next adventure of starting in Year 2 in September.

Summer 2

This half-term we will be covering the following topics:

Writing: We will be writing non-fiction reports based on The Big Book of Birds
Reading: We will be exploring the text Walking Through the Jungle and practising reading with expression
Maths: We will explore counting using coins in patterns of 2s, 5s and 10s as well as learning to tell the time
Science: Animals
Art: Animal Sculptures
PE: Dance
History: Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell
RE and PSHE/Rights Lessons: Why should we care for others and the world

We will also continue to learn a different Right each week!

Things to remember this term...

Reading books: Please bring your book bag in every day to read with an adult. Books will be changed each Monday. Your child will recieve a colour coded book for their level of indepedent reading as well as a reading for pleasure book to read with an adult.
Reading records: Your child will receive a reading record to log the books they are given and to share the amazing reading they have been doing at home.
Phonics packs: Phonics books will be changed by your childs Phonics teacher each week.
Please bring a reusable water bottle to have in class every day, especially as the weather begins to get warmer.

PE Days: