The Year One Teaching Team 

On Tuesday 18th March 2025 we held a Phonics Screening Check information presentation for all children in Year 1. 

Please see below for more information:

Please see our learning web for Summer 1 below:

Please find the Sounds Write Phonics PowerPoint used at the Parent Phonics Workshop below. If you have any further questions, please speak with either the class teacher or Ms Munro. 

Start time: 8.45am- doors open

8.45 - 9.00 - Early Morning Activity and Register

9.00 - 9.30 - Phonics

9.30 - 10.15 - English

10.15 - 10.25 - Snack

10.25 - 10.40 - Break

10.45 - 11.30 - Maths

11.30 - 11.45 - Phonics Activity and prepare for lunch

11.45 - 12.45: Lunch

12.45 - 13.00 - Register and Story

13.00 - 13.30 - Reading and phonics

13.30 - 14.15 - Wider Curriculum Lesson 1

14.15 - 14.30 - Daily Mile

14.15 - 15.00 - Wider Curriculum Lesson 2

15.00 - 15.15 - Prepare for home time with story, games or singing

15.15 - Home time

 Phonics:

Phonics in Year One...

Children in Year One will sit the national Phonics Screening Check. The Check is a short, statutory reading assessment designed to give teachers information about how individual children are progressing in phonics. It is designed to confirm whether pupils have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard.

When children enter Year One they are mostly secure in the “initial code” which is taught in Reception. They revise the initial sounds and then learn that there are alternative sounds for spelling by moving onto the extended code.  The first unit, for example, is looking at the 4 main ways to spell the “ay” sound, such as “ai” (rain), “ay” (day), “ea” (great) and “a_e” (rake).  The extended code has units which will be taught throughout Year One and into Year Three.  Each unit takes 2 weeks of teaching to complete and are regularly revised.  Please see below for the sequence of units.  Once established, the children in Year One also begin to read and spell polysyllabic words, using sounds recently taught.  They learn to split two and three syllable words up into their syllables and blend together to read. 

How to Help at Home...

Below are links for information on how you can help and support your child with their learning in year 1. 

Reading 

We encourage you to read with your child as often as possible. Your child should have the opportunity to change their school reading books once a week - please encourage your child to do this - which allows them to read the book several times in order to gain confidence and fluency. As you are reading, it is useful to stop and ask questions about what the book is about, what the characters are doing and what might happen next. At the end of the book, get your child to think about what they liked or did not like about the book and their reasons why. Please fill in your child's Reading Diary every time they read. This only has to be a simple date and signature to acknowledge they have read at home. This helps us to monitor their reading progress. In addition, for every three times they read at home, they will help their class to earn a class reward.

Resources to support reading at home

year-one-reading-information.docx

Recommended Books to Read for year one.docx

Best Books for 5-year-olds | BookTrust

The best books for 5 and 6-year-olds - Pan Macmillan

Oxford Owl Free ebook library:

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ 

Oxfordshire Library online ebooks and eaudio service:

https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/leisure-and-culture/libraries/library/books-and-reading/ebooks-and-eaudio

Maths 

Children in year 1, by the end of the academic year, need to be able to skip count in 2s,5s and 10s. They also need to be able to count forwards and backwards to 100. 

Y1 Autumn Block 2 TS1 Introduce parts and wholes on Vimeo

Y1 Autumn Block 2 TS7 Number bonds to 10 on Vimeo

Y1 Autumn Block 2 TS13 Fact families - the eight facts on Vimeo

Y1 Autumn Block 2 TS16 Subtraction on a number line on Vimeo

Y1 Summer Block 4 TS4 The number line to 100 on Vimeo

Y1 Autumn Block 1 TS12 Less than greater than equal to on Vimeo

Parent resources | Maths workbooks | White Rose Maths (whiteroseeducation.com)

Writing

Please support your child with their fine motor skills and encourage lots of fun that involves working the children's hand muscles. This link has lots of fun and exciting ways to build those muscles and improve children's pencil grip. 

Activities to develop fine motor skills | Learning Resources

After they have developed their fine motor skills we would encourage them to practice their letter formation and pencil grip. CGP handwriting books are a great go to for support and guidance. 

General Information

PE

Year 1 will have PE outdoors on Mondays and indoors on Tuesdays.

Please note that we kindly ask you to bring your child changed and ready for PE on Mondays and Tuesdays. Children will remain in their PE kits for the whole day. Please can we respectfully ask you to name ALL items of your child's PE kit. It is essential for the smooth running of PE sessions that all PE kit is named clearly so that we are able to teach the children PE for the maximum session time possible rather than hunting for lost items! Thank you in advance.

Homework

In addition to reading, regular practise of number bonds or maths facts is encouraged through the use of Numbots. We also have a homework map which can be found here: 

Summer 1 Homework Map

The activities found on the Homework Map relate to the learning we will be covering over the term. When activities are completed, children are encouraged to bring them in so we can share in their learning and celebrate their achievements. 

Library

We attend the library on Thursday afternoons, please make sure your child brings in their library book to be exchanged. 

Daily Needs

Your child will also need a named water bottle in school every day, and if they have a packed lunch, please provide a named lunch box and bag.

https://www.childline.org.uk/get-support/contacting-childline/