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.
Year 1 have been enjoying reading and learning all about poetry. We have spent time looking at and listening to the rain to get inspired! As classes we have collected onomatopoeia sounds and interesting adjectives to write our own class poems all about rain! Our teachers even got their wellies on and umbrellas up to have water poured over us to help us use our imagination and hear the water sounds!
We put our detective skills to the test when we worked together to find all of the number bonds to 20. We started with 20 conkers and took one away each time to find the pairs of numbers that make 20. Then we wrote the matching number sentences for each one on our whiteboards. Working systematically meant we found them all! Some of us that were truly keeping our minds active, even spotted the patterns: including the number of conkers decreasing as the number of spaces on the tens frame increased and the same bonds/ pairs of numbers being reversed- e.g. 1+19=20 and 19+1=20!
