Year 1
Autumn 2024
Welcome to our Year 1 year group page!
This year we have three classes:
Puffin Class: Hannah Huff
Kingfisher Class: Saffron Jalal
Crane Class: Luke Young
TAs: Mrs Manwaring
This year our topics are:
Autumn –We Love Leytonstone
Spring –It’s a Wonderful World
Summer – Our Precious Planet
We endeavour to make 6 trips a year to offer our children new experiences and build on the learning that takes place in the classroom. Additionally, we will also be going on 4 'seasons walks' on the Wanstead Flats to observe the changes that happen in nature over the course of a year. We are always grateful for parent support with this.
Unlike EYFS, we will be following the whole school pattern for parents evenings. We will be holding a parents evening in both the Autumn term and the Spring term. In Summer you will receive a written report on your child's progress and there will also be an opportunity to meet your child's current class teacher as well as their Year 2 teachers.
To support our exciting curriculum, this we ask for £10 voluntary contribution per half term to be put towards materials, cooking ingredients, outdoor learning resources etc. This can be done via parent pay.
Our Weekly Timetable
Monday
- Reading books, records and homework books returned
- Daily Supported Reading session 1 - Parent volunteers welcome (please speak to your child's teacher if you would like to be trained to support with this).
Tuesday
- Sports coach delivered PE lesson - ALL children must come to school in their blue PE kits.
- Changed reading books sent home.
Wednesday
- Teacher led PE lesson - ALL children must come to school in their blue PE kits.
- Daily Supported Reading session 2 - Parent volunteers welcome (please speak to your child's teacher if you would like to be trained to support with this).
Thursday
- Daily Supported Reading session 3 - Parent volunteers welcome (please speak to your child's teacher if you would like to be trained to support with this).
Friday
- 8.45-9.00am Reading Morning - all parents and carers are welcome to come and read with a small group in their child's class.
- During the afternoon we will visit the school field - children may store wellies at school to be worn.
Reading
All children should be reading everyday. It is important that they have time everyday to read to an adult at home to help them consolidate and extend what they have been learning at school. It is also important for them to have opportunities to hear you reading to them in order to foster a love for reading as well as to develop their range of vocabulary.
We will be sending out both a fiction and non-fiction books every week targeted to your child's reading level.
The reading books should be returned every Monday; they will be changed and returned by Tuesday. If your child's book is not returned on the Monday, it will not be changed until the following week.
Although it is only changed on the day mentioned, it is helpful that your children have their books at school with them every day so the adults can read the same book with your child in school.
It is also great to see comments from parents in their books about what they have read. Is it too hard? Too easy? Was this interesting to them? When you read with your child please make sure to write the date in their reading record. If we can see that your child has read with you the day before they will receive a sticker to incentivise their reading.
In Summer 2, all children in Year 1 undertake a government Phonics screening test. Information about this can be found on the DfE website. Please visit the website to download a leaflet for parents or carers with a child in Year 1. It explains what the phonics screening check is, how it is used and how parents and carers can support their child with phonics learning at home.