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. lessons are Wednesdays and Thursdays
English
In English this term, we will be focusing on stories from fantasy settings, particularly a story called Aliens Love Underpants. We will be retelling the story, writing alternate versions, as well as writing some persuasive letters to the characters in the story. We will continue to focus on using our phonic knowledge for spelling and to develop and progress our sentence writing, extending our sentences using ‘and’ as well as learning about nouns, verbs and adjectives. We will continue to focus on forming our letters correctly and placing them on the line. We will continue our emphasis on capital letters, finger spaces and full stops, as well as question marks and exclamation marks.
Maths
In Maths, we will be following White Rose Maths. We are working on multiplications and division, particularly counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. We will then move on to fractions as well as continuing to review and work on our numbers to 50 as well as our number bonds to and within 10.
Science
Our science topic will be plants. We will be focusing identifying and naming parts of plants and their functions.
In History we will be learning about Beatrix Potter, a significant person in History.
In R.E. we will be introducing Buddhism asking ‘What can we find out about Buddha?’
In DT we will be looking at wheels in preparation for making a pull along toy,
In Music our topic is ‘Your imagination’
Our topic in PSHE will be ‘Being my best’
In P.E. this term we will be focusing on Team Building as well as Striking and Fielding skills. All children will require a full P.E. consisting of a 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 less access to areas of provision around the classroom as we will be moving to more whole class learning and working to develop more independence in order to prepare them for the changes when they move to Year 2.
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. Using ‘Teach your Monster to Read’ is also a fantastic online app which supports reading progress.
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.
We will continue to send the family maths scrapbooks home too, regularly changing the activities to give you access to some fun and engaging ‘real life’ maths that you can enjoy together.
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 then 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:
