Year 1

Year One is made up of Sharks Class with Mrs Topazio-Collis and Stingrays Class with Mrs Hoare and Mrs Simms.

Our PE days are Monday and Thursday mornings (PE days have changed from 3rd October 2022).

Contact email for general enquiries (nothing urgent please as we do not always get the chance to check this email address every day): year1@mengham-inf.hants.sch.uk

Please take a look through our blog to see what we’ve been doing – click on the photos on the right-hand side to open up our latest blog posts.

Phonics

Our school phonics scheme is: Twinkl Phonics

We are currently learning our level 5 sounds. Alongside learning the new sounds, we are practising level 2,3 and 4 sounds and tricky words. Please note there are no new ‘sounds’ within level 4, however children do practise reading adjacent consonants. Children need to be confident in recognising all level 2,3,4 and 5 sounds and tricky words to support their reading as well as use these sounds and tricky words within their writing.

Level 5 Sounds and Actions

Level 3 Sounds and Actions

Level 2 Sounds and Actions

Here are some helpful phonic resources;

Here are Year 1s current topic overviews and homework grids:

Here are our previous Level 5 minibooks from Autumn 1.

Year 1 Blog

Lighthouses

As part of our history learning this half term we have researched Grace Darling and how she helped save sailors during a storm. Grace Darling lived with her family in a lighthouse. We have learnt when lighthouses are important and the features of an effective lighthouse. In DT we have been experimenting with joining paper

Creative Afternoon 12th October 2022

We have had a fun and creative afternoon doing our carousel of activities. Today we were painting a lighthouse with watercolours, sketching a sunflower, cutting and sticking, working on the laptops and listening to the music of Fantasia and drawing our responses

Sharing a Shell

We are currently reading 'Sharing a Shell' by Julia Donaldson as part of our English sessions. The children have been having fun creating stick puppets to retell the story as well as writing sentences for each part of the story. Some of us have even been joining 2 sentences together by using 'and'. Here is