Welcome to Year One
Our Year 1 team is:
Mrs. Steele and Miss. Marsden: Class Teachers Miss. Foltanova Teaching Assistant
Hello everyone!
We hope you have had a wonderful summer and are ready for the new year ahead!
Phonics - We are following the Supersonic Phonic Friends programme for phonics, which the children were introduced to last year. This combines an active and fun way. Click here for a sneak peek at how a Supersonic Phonics lesson works. For phonics practice at home, you can find free games and resources on the Phonics Play website, providing exciting ways to recognise real and fake words, practice tricky words and segment and blend sounds.
Children should continue to read and be read to daily, a variety of texts with different genres e.g. non-fiction information books, fairy stories and recipe books to build upon vocabulary and understanding of each genre's style. Reading books will be changed on Tuesdays and library books changed on Wednesdays.
Literacy - In class, we are focusing on a story called "Harry the Happy Mouse" by N.G.K. The story follows a cheerful, traditional story abut a mouse called Harry who lives in the colourful English countryside. Harry helps a Frog, but asks the Frog to repay the kindness to someone else. We will use skills from phonics lessons and elements of drama to guide us with our writing.
Maths - This term, we will be learning about place value to 10, as well as addition and subtraction within 10 and ending the term with shape. Numberblocks episodes on BBC iPlayer are a great way for your children to become familiar with mathematical concepts through songs.
PE Days - Wednesday and Thursday. This term, we will be focusing on our fundamental movement skills and dance. Please ensure they have a full PE kit in school at all times, as well as a jumper or long bottoms. Due to the weather, we might change PE days, and one of our units is outdoor, so we will be going outside if cold.
If you would like to talk to us about any aspect of life or have any questions, you can do so through contacting us via email at: c.steele@holy-family.lancs.sch.uk (Monday - Wednesday) and N.marsden@holy-family.lancs.sch.uk (Thursday and Friday)
Have a lovely day!
Mrs. Steele and Miss. Marsden
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