The teachers in Year One this Year are Mrs McTeggart, Mrs Colwell, Miss Shefford and Mrs Redding.
Our teaching assistants are Mrs Willmer, Mrs Wilson, Mr Hill, Mrs Shortt, Miss Bazeley and Mrs Brown.
In the morning there is always a member of staff to greet the children on the door and if you have any queries then that member of staff will endeavour to address the concern so that they it be dealt with promptly. If you require a more lengthy discussion then please make an appointment with your teacher via your class e-mail or by contacting the school office.
Each term the theme of learning changes and you will receive a topic talk booklet to help you support your child’s learning at home.
Reading is the key to success in Year 1!!! Read! Read! Read! The children will be part of a comprehensive phonics scheme that will support and help them to embrace the phonics screening check at the end of year 1 with confidence. Reading at home is essential to enhance and consolidate the learning in school. Books are changed twice weekly and as an incentive the children are entered in to a book draw when they have read each week. This enables them to win a book of their choice to enjoy and keep at home as a reward for star reading!
Weekly spelling lists are sent home and tested on a Friday. You will also receive a termly list with some suggestions for ideas to help at home. These words are part of the Year One learning programme and these sessions help the children to apply them independently during writing tasks.
Every learning experience is carefully planned to be inspirational, exciting and fun!
Watch your child learn the skills to become an Explorer, Scientist, Artist, Designer, Mathematician, Historian, Author, Technology expert, Sports professional or whatever their life choices may be.
We have been designing, making and evaluating our own worry monster puppets in DT. We have also had fun being inspired by existing puppets and have been using a puppet theatre to make up stories. Take a look at some of our wonderful creations below. We hope that the children have enjoyed showing them to you at home also!
We had a wonderful World Book Day in year 1 and did lots of fun learning and making together! We started off the day showing off our costumes and telling our friends about our book characters. Then we spent time thinking about why reading is fun, including all of the different characters we get to meet and places we can travel to in our imaginations when we read a book.
We also discussed how useful books can be for finding information. They can be used to learn new skills, find recipes and discover more about things we are interested in! We came up with a whole list of places that would be fun to read a book including at the park, in the garden, in a den we’ve built, tucked into bed, relaxing on the sofa or even at the beach!
Later in the morning, we began choosing objects out of a mixed box, one at a time, to use in our own made up stories. Each class created their own characters and settings and brought them to life in a story that the children decided upon. They thought of some wonderful adjectives to describe and thoroughly enjoyed working as a team to make an exciting story! We also decorated our own front covers for the story that we made. We are going to be sharing each classes’ story with you when we have had a bit more time to work on illustrations and assemble our book! Look out for the upcoming blog posts!
We enjoyed getting creative in the afternoon and creating our own bookmarks and lolly stick puppets and using them to retell some of our favourite stories that we know. We had a lovely day all in all and can’t wait to see what next year’s World Book Day brings.
