Year 1
Week beginning 17th November 2025
We have had a jam-packed week in year 1! Our first school trip, a special Remembrance Service and finally Children in Need day today, it's been busy!
The children have done so well with their learning this week. We have been learning more about maps and how a key with symbols helps us to locate features on maps as well as learning about our new key artist, Jane Hissey.
We would like to say thank you again to our parent volunteers who helped out on our trip this week- we couldn't have done it without you! Thankfully, we were lucky with the weather and the children enjoyed their experience, finding lots of interesting things along the way.
We have our PSA disco on Friday. This will take place during school time. Please see the separate letter PSA for information.
We look forward to another super week of learning next week!
Worship:
The worship theme this week is: Faith
Learning this week:
English - The children will continue to work on the story 'Percy the Parkkeeper, After the Storm' by Nick Butterworth. They will be innovating the story to make it their own.
Maths - The children will be continuing their work on the '5 and a bit' structure of numbers 6-9.
Phonics - The children will be learning the alternative sounds for the grapheme 'ch' like in 'Christmas' and 'chef'.
The parent information sheet can be found here: Parent Information Sheet
Whole Class Reading - The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark
RE - The children will be looking for signs of Christmas.
Art - The children will be looking at different tones and how to use these when making artwork.
Geography - The children will learn how to use simple aerial maps.
Science - We will be investigating what weather types there are during Autumn.
Home Learning:
My Maths, Numbots and Twinkl Phonics App log ins are stuck into the front of your child's Reading Record. Please speak to your child's teacher if you need any support with any of these platforms.
Additional help with reading/phonics:
If you are wondering how you can provide general support for your child at home, our advice is to hear them read as often as possible. Please do not worry if your child brings home the same book from time to time- this is to gain confidence and fluency before moving onto different sounds in other books.
We also have an excellent link to some high quality texts that you may want to consider when choosing children’s books to read or buy!
Additional Maths:
By the end of Year 1, children are expected to:
- count forwards and backwards in ones to 100
- be able to count in 2s, 5s and 10s
- find one more and one less than a given number up to 100
- recognise the value of all coins
- know number bonds (numbers that add together) to total 10 and 20.
These are excellent skills to be practising at home, although we stress that they will be covered over the course of the school year.
Messages:
It is really important to put children’s names in all their clothes, on packed lunch boxes, water bottles, coats etc- otherwise they do not go home with the correct child. We already have some unclaimed and unnamed items from this week. If you could all check that all items are named, we would really appreciate it.
Please could water bottles be placed into a plastic bag in their school bag to protect school reading books. All water bottles must only contain water and NOT squash please.
Please note, our fruit at school is delivered on a Monday, but sometimes later in the day. Please could you provide your child with a snack on a Monday to avoid them getting hungry if our fruit has not been delivered.
Key Information and Dates:
Please wear PE kits on a Thursday.
Please see below for key dates across the school.
Thank you for your continued support.
Have a great weekend!
Mr Parsons and Mrs Stoodley