The teachers in Year One this Year are Mrs McTeggart, Miss Smith, Miss Shefford and Mrs Redding.
Our teaching assistants are Mrs Willmer, Mrs Wilson (HLTA), Mrs Brown and Miss Bazeley.
Our 1:1 learning support assistants are Mrs C Shortt and Mrs Mel Bratu.
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!
The children will bring home a card with their ‘Focus 4’ spellings listed on for them to practise until they feel ready to bring them back to school to be tested. Personal targets will be made for each child and they will receive rewards for their efforts. Testing sessions will be completed on a Tuesday afternoon. These words are part of the Year One learning programme and this strategy will inevitably help the children to retain spelling patterns/ word shapes and 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 had a brilliant time on Tuesday morning trying some tasty pancakes to get the full experience of an authentic Shrove Tuesday. We had a choice of lemon and sugar toppings and all gave a big cheer for Mrs McTeggart for successfully flipping all of the pancakes with no mishaps! We have also enjoyed reading the story - Mr Wolf’s pancakes. Please watch the video to listen and enjoy sharing the story at home together.
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.
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. The children 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. We had a lovely day all in all and can’t wait to see what next year’s World Book Day brings.
