Year 1 2024 - 2025

Pupil Survey https://forms.office.com/e/hzFKBv6Yyc?origin=lprLink

Alphabet of Countries - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6h7LEru69U 

Year one is the beginning of Key Stage One where we begin to access the National Curriculum 2014.

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A warm welcome back to the start of a new year!

We hope that you and your family have had a magical Christmas time. Best wishes for a wonderful 2025!

We can't wait to share our wonderful new topics with you!

As always, remember to ask if you have any questions, we are happy to help!

Miss Taylor, Mrs Thompson and Mrs Bebbington

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We have a huge variety of stories and non-fiction books lined up to provide many opportunities for story telling, writing, role-play, creative work, and PSHE discussions.  

Our No Outsiders stories this term will include…

In Maths, we will explore the following areas…

Number and place value (within 20 and 50)

Addition and subtraction (within 20)

Volume and Mass

Telling the time (o' clock and half past)

Please follow the link below to find the maths help books for each of these areas.

http://www.excalibur.cheshire.sch.uk/page/maths-workbooks-for-parents/86832

   

In Geography, we will be exploring what the weather is like in the UK. We will investigate the four seasons, the ways in which we prepare ourselves for different types of weather and then we will begin to learn the skill of using a compass!

During History, we will be learning about toys from both past and present. We will explore the changes that the same type of toy has gone through over the years- including the materials used to make these toys. We will also compare the toys that we play with to those that our parents and grandparents played with.

Staff

Who is who in year one?

Class Teacher: Miss Taylor (Tuesday mornings, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays)

Class Teacher: Mrs Thompson (Mondays and Tuesday afternoons)

Welfare Assistant: Mrs Bebbington

PE

PE lessons will be on Monday and Thursday.

Children will leave their kit in school so they can change for PE- please name everything! If your child comes home in their PE kit after a sports club, please try and get it straight back into school!

Kits will be sent home for washing at the end of each half term.  

Joggers and tracksuits can be included if the weather gets chilly but these should be in school colours.

For health and safety reasons, long hair should be tied back and children should not wear jewellery.

Earrings should be taken out or covered with micropore.  (Children should arrive with earrings already covered or taken out as staff can not assist with this)  

Children need pumps or trainers. Ideally, these should be pull on or have velcro fastens.  This will allow them to be as independent as possible and ensure a speedy change.

Refreshments

Children need to bring fresh water in a labelled water bottle every day. They are encouraged to have regular drink breaks and can have their bottles refilled when needed. Please do not add juice to their water bottles.

Children will need to bring in a healthy breaktime snack or hot snacks such as bagels and toast can be chosen from the kitchen and paid for on Parentmail.

During afternoon break, your child will be offered a piece of fruit.  This fruit is funded by the government healthy eating initiative.  

Homework

In your child's homework book will be a sheet outlining the homework for that week.

There will be a handwriting activity- please ensure your child is holding their pencil correctly and forming their letters as per the Read Write Inc formation sheet.

One or two short activites will be set on Seesaw at the end of each week.  They will vary in terms of subject focus (it may be maths or topic based, a request to bring something in or a literacy task).

If appropriate, there may be a "Mathletics" activity instead for them to have a go at (logins can be found on their login cards in their planner). They can win points on Mathletics and there is the chance to earn certificates during our celebration assembly on a Friday. The children will have a week to complete the tasks so please support them to get their home learning done.  

Seesaw can be used to post messages but please be aware that it is not checked daily so a message of importance should be given at the door, via email or by telephone.

By the end of Year 1, children need to be able to count (in ones) to a hundred.  Please make sure your child is secure counting forwards and backwards with numbers to 20, then to 50 and then to 100.  Skip counting in tens, fives and twos is also a great thing to practise when you have a few spare minutes now and then.

The children also need to record numbers, from memory, using the correct formation and of a consistent size.

Click the formation paper below if you like.

Reading

In Year 1, the children will bring home books related to our Read, Write Inc. programme.  These books need to be returned on the following Monday so new ones can be issued.  Please return them in the Read, Write Inc. folder provided.  

The children are also encouraged to take books home from our school library.  We will have our library time on Tuesday so library books should be returned on this day.  The library books can be identified by the 'Excalibur Library' sticker on the back cover.

Are you ready for some extra home learning?

Try the games below for some learning fun.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=PostSortingcalculationsv2