Welcome to Year 1

Meet the team

Mrs. Scattergood - Class Teacher

Mrs Massey - Teaching Assistant

 

Autumn 1

Please click to the left of the page to view the full curriculum for this term. 

 

Class Saint 

            We will continue to be guided by our class saint, Saint Francis who will help us to better understand the                                     Catholic Social Teaching Principle of ‘Stewardship’.

 

RE

The Virtues & Values this half term are ‘Eloquent & Truthful’.

We are going to be listening to and sequencing the story of Creation; we will be giving thanks for all that God has created for us.

 

Class Text

   

We will be exploring our topic ‘Once upon a time’.

To help us to understand the meaning of beginnings, the importance of our families and how & why we need to keep ourselves healthy to enable us to grow, we are going to be listening to, and working with, a range of texts. Stick Man is just one of these books, written by our class author Julia Donaldson and ‘Eat your Peas’ is a funny book written by Kes Gray. We will also be familiarising ourselves with a range of traditional tales, beginning with Little Red Riding Hood.

 

PE

‘FUNdamentals of movement’

Children will become competent in the FUNdamentals of movement (Agility, Balance, Co-ordination) and begin to apply these skills in conditioned games.

Please ensure that a full, labelled PE is in school at all times – as well as for class PE, the children will also need their full kit in school should they be attending appropriate after school ‘PE themed’ clubs.

Homework

High Frequency Words Practise

A set of high frequency words will be sent home every few weeks to help your child, recognise, read and then, independently write with correctly formed letters; the words will be grouped in spelling patterns wherever possible to aid memory committal.

Daily Homework

Daily Maths homework (small blue book) will be four questions practising the four basic operations; they should be completed and returned Tuesday to Tuesday for marking and re-setting.

Weekly homework

Children will receive one piece from either RE, science, art, DT, history, geography, computing or PSHE (these subjects will be rotated and linked to the class topics).

Reading Diaries

Children are encouraged to read at home daily (for at least 20 minutes) and are expected to have their diaries signed by an adult at least 3 times a week (a member of staff will check the diaries on a Monday Wednesday and Friday).

BIG Chat

The children will receive a slip in their reading diaries which will have a BIG Chat for home focus; we will be working with this on a two-week cycle. Week 1 is where we plan and discuss, as a class, and week 2 will be an independent write-up for the children so that we can continually assess their growing ability to independently apply new writing skills such as spelling, handwriting, sentence construction, stamina and punctuation.

 

Class Diary- trips, assemblies etc.

Please see the school messenger and website calendar for further information.