Year 1 2024 - 2025

Mrs Dennehy

Mrs Blair

Mrs Button

Welcome to Class 1

Autumn Term 2024-25

We are really looking forward to welcoming our new class. We have been busy preparing the classroom and planning lots of exciting things for the children to do once they start Class One on Wednesday 4th September. We will spend time settling in, sharing holiday news and catching up with friends.

Our main English focus will be based around a beautiful picture book entitled 'Lost and Found' by Olivers Jeffers. This follows the adventures of a boy who finds a penguin at his door. It is a wonderful story of feelings and friendship. The rich, descriptive language in the text and wonderfully detailed illustrations will hopefully inspire some fantastic work.

Phonics will continue daily and sounds covered will be sent home weekly for practise.

In Maths we will be looking at numbers to 20, simple addition, one more/less, 2D shape and counting in patterns of numbers.

Topic work has a Geography focus this half term. We will be considering the question 'What is the geography of where I live?'. This investigation enables pupils, as young geographers, to identify and begin to understand the key physical and human geographical features of their local area We will use Google Earth and enjoy some feildwork outside. More details and a useful vocabulary list can be found in the Geography Knowledge Organiser below.

In Science our topic focus is 'Ourselves'. The children will look at how they have changed since being a baby. We will talk about different body parts and our senses. The Science Knowledge Organiser contains more details in the link below.

Children will all be given 2 reading books per week and would all benefit from reading every night. Little and often is best! Homework and spellings will be sent out on Fridays to be handed in by the following Tuesday. We really appreciate your support in this matter.

P.E. for Class 1 will be each Monday (pilates) and Wednesday and the children should come into school wearing their P.E. kits on these days.

Fruit snacks are available daily free of charge. Fairtrade cookies are sold by Year Six children on Wednesdays for 40p and toast is for sale on Fridays for 20p.

Please check the class page regularly for updates and photographs of what we have been getting up to in class.

Each child should have their own login details for both Purple Mash and Active Learn. Both online learning platforms offer a great range of learning activities that children enjoy in school.

Remember if you want to contact us, please use the email address [email protected]

-Many thanks

Mrs Blair and Mrs Dennehy

If you need an extra link to reading activities. The Learn Live Read Channel will feature one Live read every week day at 10.00. Here's the link! https://learnliveuk.com/learn-live-read-channel/

Useful links

Active Learn Login

Purple Mash

Music Links

Mini Music Makers

RNSO music challenges

Stomp Style Body Percussion

Mental Health links:

Please also visit the school's dedicated mental health and well-being page for more information on where to get support.

Welcome to the Class One Learning Hub!

Click on the icons below which will take you straight to the website. The website will give you ideas and activities for their age related learning journey. We will add to this over time. Don't forget to look on Google Classroom for your latest activities!