Year 1 2025 - 2026
Mrs Cooper
Class Teacher
Mrs Coleman
SEN Teaching Assistant
Welcome to Year 1
To support your child with their phonics at home, you will find some useful files and links attached to this page. These can be referred to whilst reading together or during writing activities.
Maths
For this half term we will be focusing on place value within 20.
English
This half term we are going to be using 'The Lion Inside' to inspire our writing. Please don't read the story if you aren't already familiar with it. It's lovely for the children to learn the story together.
Reading
Please record any home time reads in your child's reading diary. This can be a story, a recipe, a comic or phonics practice. You must bring it to school every day. It also contains helpful phonics pages. Children will change the book once a week, they need to have read the book 4 times (at home and at school) to be able to change it.
RE
Our unit this half term is Galilee to Jerusalem. We will be learning about the early life of Christ and what it means to be a 'light of all nations'.
Spellings
This half term we will start having weekly spellings. We do not test these but have regularly activities to build the children familiarity of spelling patterns. Once a spelling list has been sent home the children are expected to spell them correctly, using classroom resources for support.
PE
We will be having PE on a Monday (outside) and Thursday (indoor). This term our outdoor focus will be football skills and our indoor focus will be dance-inspired by wild animals.
Phonics games! To help the children prepare for the phonics screen check in June have a go at a few games :)
There's a fab alien game that has a Mario vibe!
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
Lots of flash card options
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Though a subscription is needed for a few of the games, there are some actvities the children are familiar with.