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.
What an exciting adventure we have been on!! All the way to The North Pole!!
All dressed in our cosy, fluffy pyjamas, dressing gowns and slippers we started the day by watching to the part of the film where the boy boards the train and begins his journey to the North Pole.
The children were then so excited to use their own tickets and board the Polar Express train that had come to visit us in the small hall!! They enjoyed Yummy hot chocolate and marshmallows! After singing along to the theme tune and having their photos taken, we returned to the classroom to explore adjectives linked to tasting and use adjectives to describe the feel of their pyjamas. We also talked about action words to describe how they might have travelled down the stairs after seeing the trai from their bedroom window. The children were asked to use these words in their independent writing. We as teachers were so impressed with their word choices and were really pleased that the experience had proven to inspire their imagination and influence the quality of their responses. Take a look at the photos and some examples of the awesome adjectives we collected. I’m sure you will agree that their writing was super impressive. Next week the children will complete the film and explore feeling words to suggest how the boy felt when he lost the first gift of Christmas (The bell) given by Santa. They will then meet Santa as he makes a quick visit to Year One before he begins his mammoth task of delivering presents around the world. The boy in the story receives a special surprise present under his tree on Christmas day From ‘Mr C’ I wonder if you can guess what it was? Don’t forget, only for those that believe will they hear the twinkling sound of the bell.
We have been looking at life in an Inuit community. The Inuit girl in the story is fishing and we were excited to find out more about everyday life. We explored fishing, building an igloo, soap stone carving and reading fascinating facts to build on our knowledge and understanding! Take a look at the photos!
