Welcome to Year 1, our class teacher is Jacqui Evans who is assisted by Hayley Walker.
Useful documents for Year 1
Year 1 Long Term Overview 2025 26
Important dates and information: P.E. Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Visit to Church – 8th December 2025
English
In English this half term, we will be writing recounts and focusing on another selection of familiar stories as well as some poetry and beginning to learn some dictionary skills. We will focus on using our phonic knowledge to write simple words/phrases and possibly sentences. We will be trying to form our letters correctly and place them on the line. We will be focusing on capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Maths
In Maths, we will be following White Rose Maths. We are looking at numbers 1-10, focusing on addition and subtraction and particularly our very important number bonds. We are trying to build an in-depth knowledge of number and make them really secure as this will help them further up the school. Our number bonds to and within 10 are a very important foundation for building our maths skills and we are working towards ensuring these are embedded by the end of this term.
Science
Our science topics will continue this term with Animals including Humans. We will be focusing on humans this half term. We will be learning about different parts of the body, looking into our senses and learning about scientific investigation. After half term we will be focusing on animals.
Foundation subjects:
In Geography we will be focusing on the question ‘Where is my school?’ We will be looking at our school in relation to the local area, including map work and identifying landmarks in the local area.
In R.E. we will be looking at Christianity and the Christmas story.
Our key questions this term are ‘What do Christians believe about Jesus?’ and ‘What is it like inside a church?’ We are going to visit The Grove Methodist Church again just before Christmas to see it decorated and prepared for the Festive season.
In Art will will be working on self-portraits.
In Music, we are learning about rhythm and song. We will be learning lots of lovely new songs this term.
Our topic in PSHE will be ‘Valuing Difference’ looking at rules, kindness and being fair to everyone.
In P.E. this half term we will be focusing on dance. We will be moving to the beat and using interesting actions to different themes. All children will require a full P.E. consisting of a colour top based on their team colour, a pair of black shorts or leggings and a pair of trainers/sand shoes for this half term
The children will have access to areas of provision around the classroom in order to encourage independent learning and exploring.
How you can help your child:
We believe that any work you do at home with your child should be simple and purposeful. We would ask you to support your child in the following:
Reading- Reading any texts with your child will help improve their fluency and knowledge. We will send home a reading book assessed at their current reading level.
Number skills- Basic number skills are a great way to help improve your child’s confidence in maths. We would ask that you support them to play Numbots as this will really help their basic skills. White Rose Maths 1 minute maths app is also a great free resource that can help children be secure with subitizing and number bonds which form the building blocks for all maths as they progress through school.
Keeping homework fun helps to engage your child and not add any pressure to home life.
If there is anything we can support you with, please let us know.
Thanks
Jacqui and Hayley
Key websites to support learning:
There is also Number blocks on BBC I player which teachers great mathematical terms/language and helps build those secure number bond facts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks
There is also Number blocks on BBC I player which teachers great mathematical terms/language and helps build those secure number bond facts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks
In Year One, children will take part in a phonic reading assessment you can find out more information about this here:
Here are a selection of website you might like to try at home:
