Year 1

Welcome to Year One’s class page

Your teachers this year are Mrs Lamb, Mrs Hackney, Miss Nadeem, Mrs Oben and Mrs Wallace.

We are so excited to share a fun filled year with you!

Academic Year 2024-2025

Autumn 1

Reminders and Yr 1 Expectations

Please read at least 5 times a week with your child at home and sign their reading diaries. Children hand in their reading diaries every morning to be checked. Children who haven’t read at home will need to be heard within the school day. Your child will also be heard throughout the week by a member of staff and have their book changed.
Children will have a homework book, given out on a Wednesday and this will be returned on a Monday.
Children will receive Math’s fluency homework Monday to Friday - Please complete each night and return in the morning.
PE Kits: On a Monday and Thursday- children should arrive at school in their uniform and will get changed into PE kit. Please make sure children have everything they need, including school shoes and ties for after PE.
End of Y1 Expectations
Please find a copy of the curriculum letter for this half term

Please continue to scroll down after the Phonics and Maths weekly updates to find out what your children will be learning in the curriculum including photographs throughout this half term.

Below is some useful information and activities.

Phoneme– The sound of a letter. For example /k/.

Grapheme– The way we write the phoneme (sound). For example, /k/ can be written as c k ck qu ch.

Digraphs– Two graphemes that make one phoneme (sound).

Trigraphs– Three graphemes that make one phoneme (sound).

Please find below phonics pronunciation videos to support at home. This will tell you how to pronounce each sound.

Phase 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZtjFIvA_fs

Phase 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvOuc7cWXxc

Phase 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BwWD2ZlvBY

Week beginning 4th November

This week we will be looking at phase 4 and consolidating phase 3 sounds before we move onto our new Phase 5 sounds the following week. Please click on links below to support this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vitLy4GvO44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG-xKG7I83E

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=little+learners+phase+3

Maths

This week we will be looking at a new unit focused on subtracting numbers. Please click on the links below for additional support with this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMJOP1E4Nbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fny08Url8ik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U5TTiA6M48

Week beginning 21.10.24

This week we are consolidating all of our phase 3 sounds and introducing these in longer words. Please click on the links below to use these games for additional practise.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/3/pick-a-picture

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-3#google_vignette

Maths

To help with addition number sentences please use the game below to practise these skills

https://www.iknowit.com/lessons/a-addition-to-10.html

Week beginning 14.10.24

This week we will be looking at the sounds ure and er, please find below useful videos to support your child with blending skills.

ure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_2Oju8WKW4

er

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Taa3ANEyN_Y

Maths

This week the children can work on consolidating counting forwards and backwards to 10, using symbols for greater than, less than and equal to. Please click below for useful links

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RfIKqkvHTY&list=PLpTWh6VEf2n_k5ifGOvfq0Q_WuDrXUWXP

https://wordwall.net/resource/307674/maths/number-bonds-to-5-complete-the-number-sentences

https://www.starfall.com/h/numbers/greater-less-equals/?sn=math0

Week beginning 7.10.24

This week we have been looking at the sounds ear, air, er and ure. Please click below for videos and activities to support your children with blending to read words with these sounds

Maths

In Maths this week the children are learning to write number sentences, please click on the game below to support your children with this

https://wordwall.net/resource/307674/maths/number-bonds-to-5-complete-the-number-sentences

Week beginning 30.9.24

This week we have been looking at the sounds ar, or, ur, ow and oi. Please click below for videos and activities to support your children with blending to read words with these sounds

Alphablocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeEch_XJrWc

or blending video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TKWxjU0UgQ

ar blending video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLFON8qBZsE

oi blending video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-0wWdE-Ezg

Maths

In maths we have been learning the symbols to show if something is greater than, less than or equal to. Please click on the game below to allow your child to practise this skill

https://www.starfall.com/h/numbers/greater-less-equals/?sn=math0

Week beginning 23.9.24

This week we are looking at the sounds ai, ee, high, oa and oo. Please click on the link below to practise your blending skills with these sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXEOFTzHIrE

The children are learning to read and write phase 3 tricky words. Please click on the like below to practise these at home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY

Maths

This week the children are continuing to learn to count backwards from 10. They are also learning to find 1 less. Please use the links below to support this leering at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRuS7c5GEHw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zht28hv

Geography

As we are learning about the "Local Area" we would like to set the children a challenge. Every child should be able to orally say where they live. Can you practise teaching your children their home address. This is an important life skill and could be vital for an emergency. Here are some photographs of us on our local walk where we were learning lots of new vocabulary, what our local area is called and being introduced to human and physical features.