Welcome to Year 1

St David (1C) & St Andrew (1B)

Mr Campbell & Miss Baker

Welcome to Year One. We are delighted to be teaching your children this academic year. The Year One team offer a warm and safe environment where your children will be able to thrive emotionally, socially and academically.

Our aim is that all children will be able to learn at their own pace, we encourage them to challenge themselves, and offer support where needed. As part of maintaining our rich curriculum, your children will have many enrichment opportunities to reach out to the world around them through prayer, words, work and play. 

Your Year One Team:

1C

Mr Campbell (Teacher)

Mrs Singh (Teaching Assistant)

Miss Barton-Bates (Teaching Assistant)

1B

Miss Baker (Teacher)

Miss Doherty (Teaching Assistant)

Contact details: admin@stmaryslevenshulme.org.uk with attention to Mr Campbell and Miss Baker.

Key Dates

Year One Assembly – 5^th May

Year One Mass – 22^nd June

Trips – Dates TBC

PE Days

1C

Outdoor – Tuesdays

Indoor – Thursdays

1B

Outdoor – Tuesdays

Indoor – Fridays

Please ensure on your indoor PE day your child has socks and trainers that they are able to remove and put back on themselves.

Typical Day

Here is a normal daily timetable for Year 1 students:

8:30am: School opens

8.40am: Mastery Number

9.00am: Maths                       

10.00am – 10:15am: KS1 break           

10.15am: Phonics

10:35 - 11.25am:  Literacy

11.35am – 12.00pm: Guided Reading

12.00 – 1.00pm: Lunch

1.00pm – 1.20pm: Handwriting

 1.20 – 3.00pm Science/Topic/PE/PSHE/Computing/Music/Art/DT/RE

3.00pm: Story time

3.10pm: Prayer and home time 

This will be subject change on a daily basis to accommodate all of our enhanced learning opportunities during this term.

Kind Reminders

Water Bottles:

Please bring water bottles to school with your child on a Monday, these will be refilled and refreshed daily and throughout the day. We are a healthy school, therefore squash and juice are not permitted in water bottles.

Water bottles will go home on a Friday for a wash and clean ready to bring back on Monday.

We need the children to stay hydrated and so please ensure they bring a named water bottle into school daily. Squash and fruit juice are not permitted. We hope that with your help, we can encourage the children to develop healthy eating habits that become a normal part of everyday life. By keeping high calorie snacks to a minimum and establishing healthy eating habits early on, improvements can be made for a child’s quality of life both in the short and long term.

Healthy eating:

Most children require a snack at morning break to keep them going through the day.

Fruit and vegetables are delivered to school and available for children daily, free of charge.

If you wish to send a snack with your child we encourage children to bring in healthy snacks full of vitamins and minerals containing no added salt, fat or sugar. Many of these will help contribute to their 5 daily portions of fruit and vegetables, keep them alert and help them concentrate. It can be hard during the week to think of suitable items for them to bring in to school, but we are aiming, with the help of the children, to not only support them in making healthy choices regarding snacks, but to also reduce food packaging and waste. Providing snacks in a small, named, recyclable container is ideal.

If you are intending to send in healthy snacks with your child please limit them to the list below. 

• Vegetable sticks – such as celery, cucumber, peppers or carrot, a range of colour ensures different vitamins and minerals. 
• A piece of cheddar cheese or babybel 
• A piece of fresh or dried fruit, high in soluble fibre and vitamins would also be a great snack– pineapple, mango, kiwi, plain raisins, apricots, blueberries, banana slices. 
• Bread sticks, plain pretzels, banana bread, malt loaf, oat/rice cakes and small pitta breads are also good snacks, providing children with carbohydrate to sustain them in-between meals. 
• Homemade snack - flapjacks or other oat/whole grain based snack. These must be nut free. Items brought into school should be carefully checked by you, to ensure this. St. Mary’s RC Primary School has pupils who are severely allergic to a range of nuts. 

We are aiming for a common-sense approach, with the key being to keep it healthy and no chocolate, sweets or crisps.

Clothing:

Please ensure your child brings weather appropriate clothing dependent on the forecast.

Please ensure all jackets, jumpers etc are named.​​

Home learning

The children should keep their reading records up to date and will be expected to bring them, and their reading book, in every day even if they have not finished their book. This will allow us to monitor how much your child is reading at home. We would like parents listen to their child read, initial their reading record and to discuss their book with them at least once a week. We expect your child to read for a minimum of 10-20 minutes each evening. This will really help them to make good progress in all aspects of the curriculum.