Year 1 Welcome

Welcome to Year 1

Welcome back! We hope that you have had a wonderful summer making lots of memories. We are very excited to see your children all back at school and can’t wait to watch how they continue to flourish in KS1.

We will start the school year off by following a similar routine to the one we followed in F2 to allow the children to make the transition into Year 1 with more ease.

For English this term, we will be using the book ‘Lost & Found’. This is a lovely book that explores the friendship between a boy and a penguin. A Penguin shows up unexpectedly at a boys house and the boy tries very hard to find a way to get the penguin back home with surprising results.

During our English sessions the children will explore settings, how the characters feel and what they might be thinking. They will consider what could happen next in the text and describe characters. Children will discuss new vocabulary and take part in discussions to think about what has been read to them. At the end of the term the children will write their own simple story based on the structure of ‘Lost and ‘Found’ but using a new animal.

In maths the class will count out a number of items from a larger group, begin to recognise numbers as words as well as numerals. They will recognise 1 more and 1 less than a number and count backwards with increasing confidence. We will compare numbers, beginning by using the vocabulary fewer, more than and the same and then progressing onto greater then, less than and equal to. Towards the end of the term children will order numbers and think about where numbers sit on a number line

In science, our topic this term will be ‘All about me’. The children will name different body parts and talk about what we use them for. We will then move onto exploring our 5 senses, naming them and investigating what each of them does.

Things to remember

Our PE day will be on a WEDNESDAY. Children need to come into school wearing their correct PE uniform please.

Please make sure your child brings their book bag in every day.

Their reading book will then be changed every Friday. Please read their book with them every day if possible - little and often is much better than trying to do a lot in one go.

Children also need to bring a labelled water bottle to school each day.

Please make sure your child has their name in any cardigans, jumpers and coats.

Any issues please come and see us, we are looking forward to having an exciting and fun year with your children.

Mrs Lyon, Mrs Rainey & Mrs Ford x x x