Welcome to Year 1

St David & St Clare

Miss Bannister & Mrs Akhtar

Summer 2025

Miss Bannister and Mrs Akhtar would like to welcome you Year 1's page. 

Welcome to Year 1, we hope you have had a wonderful Easter holiday with your families and are excited for our last term in Year 1!!

Important Information:

Key Dates:

PE                              Monday (Indoor)    Thursday (Outdoor)

Home Learning and Book Bags

Book bags will be sent home with a new reading book every Wednesday. Please ensure book bags are brought in by the following Wednesday. Home learning projects will be set each half-term linked to pupils class learning.

Water bottles

Water bottles should be brought into class on a Monday, these will be refill each morning. Pupils will have access to these throughout the day, they will be sent home a Friday for a wash and clean at home. 

PE Days

Our PE days will be on a Monday and Thursday.  Children should come into school wearing their PE kits on these days. 

Please ensure your child's name is in all items of clothing including their basic school uniform.

If your child's name is not on their items of clothing this makes it very difficult to locate lost items. 

If you are unsure of what your child needs for their PE kit please see our School uniform policy.

Curriculum Focus

Religion

This term we will be learning about Holidays and Holy days, specifically the feast of Pentecost. We will be learning about being sorry when we have made mistakes and how God helps us to make better choices. We will also be learning about our Neighbours and how we share the God's world with the people around us. 

Literacy 

In Literacy, we will be continuing to focus on letter formation, handwriting and sentence structure.  We will be practising using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops with independence. The children will practise these skills through a range of genres including retells, instructions and group work. We will be using texts to support our developing writing.  Please practise at home with your child, their handwriting and letter formation. 

Maths 

This term, we will continue to practice our counting to 100 and beyond! We will challenge ourselves with multiplication and division and learn about fractions of both shapes and amounts. We will also be exploring position and direction in our geometry unit of learning. We will then move on to place value of numbers to 100, money and time. 

Please continue to help your child by practicing counting beyond 50 and writing numbers as a way of practicing number formation.

Science 

In Science, we will be learning about seasonal changes, we will continue to observe different weather patterns in the spring and into the summer. We will think about how the hours of daylight change between the winter and the summer and start a whole new Topic about Plants. 

We will be identifying a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees. We will also be describing the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

Topic 

In Topic this term we will be looking at The UK in Geography and Victorians in our History learning. We will look at maps, identifying where the different countries are that make up the UK and their capital cities. 

PSHE

Throughout Spring term we will be working through our module 'Relationships '. This unit explores families and friendships, safe relationships and how we should respect ourselves and others. 

Home Learning 

Learning logs will be sent home on a Wednesday each week and must be returned to school by the following Wednesday. The children will then get the opportunity to share the work they have done with their peers and celebrate their home learning in class at the end of each half term. Weekly phonics learning will be sent home in books bag including sounds we have focused on this week and tricky words for children to practise at home. 

Reading 

Reading is an integral part of our school day. As well as a daily designated class reading time the children will access a wide range of texts throughout the day. They will have opportunities to read texts during shared teaching, as part of a small group and individually. Your child will read with an adult in school at least three times a week during a guided reading session.   

It is important that your child brings their reading book into school on Wednesdays so their books can be changed. Please encourage your child to read every day at home and make it a special time together.  

Please can you sign the reading record when you have read and discussed the book with your child. Children also need to complete the reading activities in the log book. The reading books will be changed every week. Remember little and often is the best way to develop a love for reading! 

Phonics 

We will be teaching phonics daily. The children will be learning new sounds and practising their blending and segmenting skills, which will support in their reading and writing. Towards the end of the second half term, the children will be given different spellings related to what the focus is in their group that week. The spellings will be sent home as part of their weekly homework and there will be a spelling test of these words the following week.  

For supporting any home learning relating to Phonics, Phonics Play is a fantastic website with lots of free games/resources.  

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm 

Reading Eggs 

www.reading eggs.co.uk 

Logins for Reading Eggs have been sent via ParentMail but there will be a slip of paper with your child's details for this website in their Learning Log books too.