Year 1

 

Welcome to Year 1! 

• Puffins with Miss Phillips
• Woodpeckers with Miss Pantalone
• Sparrows with Miss Dawkins

In Year 1, the children transition from the play-based learning they will have experienced in Year R to the more structured learning in the Key Stage One curriculum. Each morning the children will have a Maths, English and Phonics session. In the afternoons, the children will complete handwriting and reading activities as part of their learning. Foundation subjects will be covered as listed on the term learning journey overview. PHSE and Music sessions are taught weekly.

Currently Year 1 PE days are Mondays and Thursdays. Children should bring their kits with them and will get changed at school.  They will then go home in their kits with their uniform in their bags.  

 

 

 

Our Federation is united by four key values that all children are encouraged to live by every day: Ready, Respectful, Safe and Kind. These principles shape how our pupils learn, behave and interact, creating a positive and supportive environment for everyone. 

 

 

 

Home Learning is given out every Friday an returned the following week. In Year 1, We focus on spellings which we have been learning in our Little Wandle Phonics sessions. Children will be given 6 spellings per week. Arithmetic is another focus with 5 questions per day. This is along side a daily read of 10 minutes. If you would like any additional support with your child's home learning please speak to your child's class teacher and they will be happy to offer some additional support. 

 

 

 

 

We are so excited to be visiting Marwell Zoo this year to help launch our 'Hakuna Matata' topic.

Our school Trip to Marwell Zoo is Friday 1st May 2026 for Year 1 Puffin and Woodpecker children.

Our school Trip to Marwell Zoo is Friday 8th May 2026 for All of Robin, Wren and Sparrow children.

 

 

 

 

 You can access our Year 1 yearly overview here:  /docs/Year_1_Yearly_overview_2025-2026.docx.

 

  Click the link and it will take you to our half termly overviews. 

Autumn 1 Once upon a time:  /docs/Autumn_1_OUAT.pdf

 We launches our Jack and the Beanstalk unit this half term. The children had a wonderful understanding of fairytales and joined in brilliantly with our familiar tales.

 

Dungeons and Dragons: /docs/Autumn_2_dragons.pdf

 

 We started the half term with eggs found in the music garden. We went out to investigated and located dragon poo and  a dragon foot print. We had a class discussion on how this could have happened. We also looked at the story ' There is no dragon in this story' .

 

 

Ships Ahoy!:  /docs/Spring_1_Pirates.pdf

This half term We had a fantastic pirate day to launch our new topic. The children all dressed up and our first quest was to find the hidden treasure chest. This launched our new story ' Pirate's love underpants'. The children did so well this half term and this is reflected in their incredible writing. 

 

 Superheroes! - Caped Crusaders:/docs/Spring_2_Superhero.pdf

 

This half term is all about superheroes. The children had a wonderful superhero day at the start of the term. The children dressed up as real and fictional superheroes and had lots of fun creating their own supertato friend. We are so excited to see where the learning will take us!

 

 

Here is our Reading Bookcase, which shows the key texts we will be reading across the curriculum in Year 1. 

Please click on the link: /docs/Bookcase_Y1.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attached is the Overview for Summer 2 learning:/docs/Summer_2_Fire_Fire.pdf

 

 

Attached is the Overview for Summer 1 learning: Summer_1_Hakuna_Matata_Learning_Adventure_docx.pdf

 

 

Attached is the Overview for Spring 2 learning:/docs/Ahoy_shipmates_overview_docx.pdf  

 

 

Attached is the Overview for Spring 1 learning: /docs/Spring_1.pdf

Autumn 2 Dungeon and Dragons   

 Attached is the Overview for Our Autumn 2 Learning: /docs/dungeon.docx

 

 

 

Attached is the Overview for our Autumn 1 learning: /docs/Autumn_1.docx

 

Attached is the powerpoint for our New parent's meeting which was held on Thursday 4th July 2024. This is for children who are starting Year 1 in September 2024.

Click the link:  /docs/Year_1_Presentation_to_parents.ppt

 

 Curriculum Overview for Autumn 1 can be found

here /docs/Curriculum/aut_1_2023.docx

 

We are so proud of how the year 1 children have settled into their new Year group. Well Done!

 

Over the Autumn term the children have been learning about the Story of Jack and the Beanstalk and retold parts of the story.  They carried out an plant investigation in science and discovered that if you cut off a plants roots or its leaves then it does not grow!

 

We also designed and made our own soup and learned how to carefully chop and peel vegetables.

 

The children are doing really well and we are very happy with their progress!

 

                           

 

                                         

 This half term we are delving into the world of Dungeon and Dragons, We even got to see a dragon egg! We linked this to our Geography learning of castles. 

 

Please find the Learning Adventure overview for Autumn 2 here

/docs/Curriculum/autumn_2_2023.docx

 Please find the Learning Adventure for Spring 1 here

Spring 1 Overview /docs/Spring_1_Overview.doc

 Please find the Learning Adventure for Spring 2 here

Spring 2 Overview /docs/Ahoy_shipmates_overview.docx

 

 Please find the Learning Adventure for Summer 1 here

Summer 1 Overview  Hakuna Matata Overview 2024

 

 Please find attached the overview for Summer 2 here.

 

Summer 2 Overview /docs/overview.docx