Welcome to Year 1!

Meet the Year 1 Team! There are 2 classes in Year 1 this year: 1R and 1PD. 

1R - Miss Rigby and Ms Zahra/Miss Todd (Wednesday Morning - Mrs Morrison)         
1PD - Miss Papatheodoru (Mon - Wed) / Ms Daly (Thurs - Fri) and Mr Carpenter

Autumn Focus:

We are covering the following topics and questions: 

Phonics: We will have a daily phonics session where we will learn new sounds and apply these to read words, books and begin writing challenges. 
Literacy: Our  focus book this term is, ' The Bumblebear' by Nadia Shireen. We will explore this text together looking at the themes of friendships and will be starting to write simple sentences using I will, he will.
Maths:  Counting forwards and backwards, comparing numbers and writing numerals  for physical amounts . 
Science:  Our 5 Senses  - What are our five senses? 
History:  Photographs from the past - What can photographs tell us about the past?
DT: Mechanisms and sliders - Can I make a moving picture?
PSHE : What is the same and what is different about us?
PE: Dance  - using our bodies to make shapes.   Games - Fundamental movement skills 
RE: Islam  - Who is a Muslim and what do they believe?

Each week we will continue to learn about a different Right . Throughout our lessons we will be learning and applying our Oracy skills that we have developed in Reception.

 Things to remember this term...

• Reading books:  Please bring your book bag in every day to be read with an adult in school. Books will be changed each Monday. Your child will recieve a colour coded book for their level of indepedent reading,  as well as a reading for pleasure book to read with an adult.
• Pageticker: Ensure you are logged on to pageticker to comment on your child's reading.
• Please bring a reusable water bottle to have in class every day.
• It really helps if all jumpers, coats, cardigans are labelled with your childs- name- if they get misplaced we can then return them to you much quicker . 

PE Days:

Wear your PE Kit to school on these days:

1R-  Monday and Thursday

1PD: Tuesday and Thursday

Questions

If you ever have a concern please feel free to email your child's class teacher to arrange a chat.

1R     Miss Rigby l.rigby@wilbrahamprimary.com 

1PD   Miss Papatheodoru (Mon- Wed) a.papatheodoru@wilbrahamprimary.com 

          Ms Daly  (Thurs - Fri) m.daly@wilbrahamprimary.com 

Homework

• Oracy talk homework will be posted on our class blog every Friday. Have a look at  the questions and talk about them with your family.
• Reading at least 3 times a week at home.

Useful links

https://www.purplemash.com/#tab/home 

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/