Welcome to Year One
Our Year 1 team is:
Ms Foy: Class Teacher Mrs Clifford: Teaching Assistant. Mrs Page: Teaching Assistant
Hello everyone!
We hope you have had a wonderful Summer break and are ready for the first term in Year 1!
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 peak at how a Supersonic Phonics lesson works. We will be embarking on Phase 5 phonemes and graphemes this year, including alternative spellings for familiar sounds. For phonics practise at home, you can find free games and resources at Phonicsplay website, providing exciting ways to recognise real and fake words, tricky words and with segmenting and blending 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" about a little mouse who likes to help others and encourages them to do the same. Using the story as a focus, we will be working on how to use the main themes to guide our imaginations before writing part of our own story. 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, 1 more and 1 less, comparing numbers and exploring greater than, less than and equal to. Numberblocks episodes on iPlayer are fun ways for your children to become familiar with mathematical concepts through songs.
PE Days - Monday and Wednesday afternoons. This term, we will be focussing on our fundamental movement skills and using the texts Supertato and Lost and Found to do so. Please can children ensure they have full kit in school at all times as well as jumper or long bottoms. Due to weather, we might change PE days and one of our units is outdoor so will be going outside if cold.
Please use tapestry to celebrate any work or exciting activities your child does at home - we love seeing what they get up to outside the classroom!
If you would like to talk to us about any aspect of life or have any questions, you can do so through contacting the or by emailing r.foy@holy-family.lancs.sch.uk
Take care,
Ms. Foy
To view our Year 1 curriculum map please click here.
To view our newsletter please click here.
To view our Autumn term curriculum map please click here.
To view our current timetable please click here.