1. Welcome to Year 1 Staff Mrs Clarke Mrs Styler Mrs Alberici Mrs Jones
Mrs Eades
Talk about
Writing
Maths
Reading

2. Year One
Writing

3. Writing Areas covered Handwriting Spellings Grammar Talk for Writing
Those exceeding in reception may not necessarily be exceeding in Year One because the expectation and criteria they need to achieve is much more complicated.
7 of the 11 for meeting the expectation for the end of the year.
All children are currently working towards the Year One curriculum.

4. Handwriting
Each child need to form lower case letters in the correct direction, relative size to one another(cursive font)
They are able to write taught graphemes in a continuous cursive style. E.g:
Those exceeding in reception may not necessarily be exceeding in Year One because the expectation and criteria they need to achieve is much more complicated.
7 of the 11 for meeting the expectation for the end of the year.
All children are currently working towards the Year One curriculum.

5. Spellings
Spell correctly words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught*.
Spell Common Exception words for year one*.

7. Grammar Uses the prefix un- correctly.
Use suffix ing, ed, er and est where no change is needed in the spelling of the root word.
help-helping,helped, helper.
Punctuation
Leaves spaces between words.
Punctuates most sentences using a capital letter.
Uses a capital letter for the personal pronoun ‘I’.
Punctuates most sentences using a full stop.
Can use a question mark.
Can use an exclamation mark.

8. Talk for Writing
Adopted throughout the school Nursery – Year 6 based on a proven method of improving writing.
Uses action words
Repetition
Acting
Modelling
Vocab exploration
Story mountain
Story maps
*** video of them performing ***
Aims to ensure children can
Write a sequence of sentences that form a short passage.
Joins words and joining clauses using ‘and’.

9. Supporting you child’s writing at home.
Encourage them to write in the cursive style.
Make a story map.
Dictate simple sentences including questions and statements using the weeks spellings.
Encourage writing - shopping lists, book reviews, facts, diaries, recounts of visits and greetings cards.
Keep writing at home short, as quality is important not quantity!

10. Assessment
We assess using the Non- negotiables as detailed in your pack.