1. Welcome to Year 1

2. Robins –Maria Sebastian, Munuse Yusuf, Mandy Banks
The Teaching Team
Robins –Maria Sebastian, Munuse Yusuf, Mandy Banks
Puffins – Kayleigh McKee, Munuse Yusuf, Pauline Johnson

3. Your child’s role Be prepared to take part Engage with learning
To follow the Golden Rules
Be considerate, cooperative, respectful, tidy and alert
In Year 1 children will develop their skills as independent learners and learn how to organise their own belongings and learning

4. Your Role
Provide appropriate clothing & equipment-Indoor & outdoor shoes, PE kit all labelled, a school book bag
Get children to school on time everyday
Good breakfast and plenty of sleep
Support with home learning
Be interested in your child’s learning – look at the learning boards on the class doors
Your child will be ready for learning through a supportive parent school partnership

5. Your child needs In school everyday:
PE kit: plain, coloured short sleeved t-shirt and black shorts plus jogging bottoms & sweatshirt for outdoors (when weather is colder), trainers in a named bag. Please leave them in school.
Book Bag
Healthy fruit or vegetable snack.
Water bottle.
Reminder
Termly-£5 class fund.

6. Days to Remember
PE: Outdoor P.E on Thursday for Robins and Puffins Indoor P.E on Friday for Puffins and Robins
Home Learning: Due in on Friday of each week. All home learning will link to the learning in class and is an important part of your child’s learning so please support at home by working on tasks together. This will include a topic task, Reading book with activity and later in the year a maths activity.
Class Books: Choice books should be changed daily during Early Morning Work and home readers are changed weekly during guided reading on your child’s reading day. Days are displayed and sent home

7. Morning Routines
Aim: To help children settle ready for learning and to start each day in a positive way
Early Morning Work from 8:30 am to 8:50am
Support your child in the mornings – they need to self register, change choice books, put water bottle away, remember their snack, settle to Early Morning Work
Work includes: puzzles, opportunities to practise skills learnt in class, quiet reading, topic work
Talk to a member of the teaching team with quick enquiries/comments or make an appointment for later if needed

8. Learning
More structured than Reception with direct teaching sessions being punctuated with group activity sessions
Cross-Curricular thematic learning
Curriculum Overviews have been sent home and on website with each new topic.
Topics covered through a variety of different subject areas, eg literacy, art, drama, ICT..
Maths, Reading and Phonics are taught daily.
Specialist teachers for some areas of learning including ICT, Music and PE
There will be trips planned throughout the year.

9. Year 1 Curriculum Overview for Autumn 1
Welcome to Year 1
We are looking forward to starting the year with you and your child as they move into Key Stage 1. We will be starting the term by getting to know each other, talking about the things that are the same about us and finding out how we are different.
WHO AM I?
Reminders
PE Kits - Please make sure your child has their PE kit in school everyday. Team coloured t-shirt, trainers and navy shorts
Puffins - PE days are Thursday and Friday
Robins – PE days are Thursday and Friday
Class fund – In Year 1 we continue to ask for £5 class fund each term towards cooking and sensory activities in class.
Home Readers – Children are encouraged to regularly change their home readers with you during early morning work.
Dates
Learning Review Appointments – Your child’s first learning review will take place during the week beginning 31st October. Exact dates and times to follow.

10. Our World Well-Being Futures Standards
As Geographers we will be using maps, atlases and globes to identify where we live and where our families are from.
As Historians we will be use words and phrases such as; a long time ago, years, decades to describe the passing of time. We will show understanding of a nations history during our work around Black History Month.
As Scientists we will be exploring our 5 senses. We will act as scientists asking questions, observing closely and talking about what we have done. We will identify and label parts of the body and learn about which part of the body is associated with which sense.
As Religiously aware students we will be finding out about the festival of Eid.
As Athletes we will be developing our skills to throw and bounce balls accurately.
As Dancers we will be travelling in a variety of ways, using different parts of our bodies. We will link 2 or more movements together to create a sequence using the floor and some small apparatus.
As Socially aware students we will be identifying different feelings and emotions and what can make us feel this way. We will talk about strategies we can use to solve simple problems.
Futures
Standards
As Readers we will be listening to and identifying features of different types of poetry and will be looking for recurring word patterns. We will be learning and applying different strategies to decode words to help us read a variety of texts.
As Writers we will be working on writing ‘good’ sentences – starting each sentence with a capital letter, spaces between words, using a full-stop at the end of a sentence. We will be working on forming all letters correctly and using our phonics to make plausible attempts at words we are writing.
As Mathematicians we will be learning to accurately copy, act and read addition and subtraction maths stories with 1 digit whole numbers and ½ and ¼.
We will be practising drawing straight lines with a ruler and drawing lines to make closed shapes.
As Artists we will explore a variety of techniques to improve our painting and drawing skills. We will use our experiences and ideas as inspiration for our art work using a range of materials in our creations.
As Musicians we will be taking part in singing together, making and controlling long and short sounds using our voices and instruments.
As Technicians we will be using a range of applications and devices in order to communicate our ideas, work and messages.
As Performers we will be sharing our dance work with children in the Year group.

11. We are looking forward to the year ahead and would like to
thank you in advance for all your support