Year 1

Welcome to Year 1

Year 1 have two classes, Sharks and Stingrays. Mrs Topazio-Collis is Sharks teacher. Mrs O’Brien and Mr Young are Stingrays teachers. Mrs Rogers and Mrs Thomson are our Year 1 LSAs and support across both classes.

Our PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays. On these days children are to come to school in their PE kits: black shorts, white t-shirt and trainser/plimsolls and the usual school jumper or cardigan. If your child is doing an after school sports club, please make sure that they have a separate kit to use.

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:

Year 1 Blog

Spring 2 in Year 1

We have been busy learning lots of new songs ready for our play ‘That Rabbit belongs to Emily Brown’. The children have loved learning the story through our English work and are now bringing it to life ready for you to watch next week. All the children thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Milestones Museum to

Spring 1 in Year 1

We have had a very busy start to 2025 in Y1. We have been learning about Yayoi Kusama, who is a Japanese artist who uses dots to create pictures. She creates vibrant art and is most famous for painting pumpkins. The children have been creating their own art in the style of Yayoi and will

Autumn 2 in Year 1

We have been incredibly busy in Y1 learning all about Mary Anning, she was a palaeontologist who lived in Lyme Regis. We have been learning about fossils and have created ammonites using chalk. We are going to be making clay ammonites that we will sell at the Christmas Fair. The children have loved learning about

September in Year 1

What a busy start to Y1 we have had. The children are settling in well and getting used to all our Y1 routines. In English we have been building on the skills the children have learnt in YR but now we are writing in exercise books and all the children are trying really hard. We