Year 1 - Ash
Welcome to Year 1 - Ash Class
Teacher - Mrs Griggs
LSA - Miss Hodgson and Miss Wood
Ash class is a nurturing and creative year 1 environment which immerses children in their learning and promotes diversity and inclusion. The school rules of 'be safe, be ready, be respectful' are threaded through the school day so that children learn to value each other, help each other to be resilient and become independent in their learning. The children are challenged and supported to develop a growth mindset, with endless opportunities to show off their best selves. Children in year one love to learn, love to read and love to create. Look out for regular photos and updates on Dojo. You can also message me on Dojo at any time, and I will respond at my earliest convenience.
Things to remember:
| Daily | Reading books should be brought into school daily please. Children will also take home a 'reading for pleasure' book. Please read with your child at home. |
| Daily | Water bottle - filled with water only. |
Wednesday | Homework to be returned on Wednesday. |
| Thursday | PE every Thursday. Please remember to remove any earrings. PE kits - please label PE kits as they will be left at school and returned home at the end of every half term. |
| Friday | Spelling test Homework to be sent home. New spellings and spellings book to be sent home. New reading book to be sent home. New 'reading for pleasure' book to be sent home. This is often a book for the adults at home to read to your child. |
Autumn in Ash Class
We have a term full of treats planned for the children. After half term, rehearsals for the school Nativity will get underway and run alongside our music curriculum. We are excited to explore life in year one and the children are keen to delve into their learning. Let's take a look at the fun the children will be having this term.
Reading/Phonics/Spellings:
All children will read daily. As part of our reading curriculum we follow 'Little Wandle'. The children have daily phonics session and guided reading sessions every morning. The children are grouped based on their phonic ability.
Spellings are given every Friday for children to practise at home.
You may wish support your child with learning to spell common exception words.
English
Initially, the children will share information about buses and try and to find out what they already know about buses to create a shared, simple piece of information writing. After this, there will be some drama where the classroom is messed up! The children will start to look for evidence to prove it is indeed Naughty Bus who has caused the chaos. After reading all of the book, the children will use Naughty Bus to innovate upon, inventing the sequel for his adventures. This will be based on the local area and will involve children captioning photos of the bus up to no good in other settings.
Children arrive to class to discover a backpack that contains several items and deduce that the owner
might be an astronaut. They share part of the text before writing in role as Astrid. Then, reading for retrieval, the children read on in the text before ‘book-marking’ and using the noun found to create
commands in the format of a ‘how to’ guide. They collaborate to pose questions and write predictions as responses before reading to the end of the text. Then they are asked to write a leaflet about
training to be an astronaut, space-travel and other facts and research layout and language features of this type of writing. There is also a session on glossaries and the suggestion that the leaflets be
‘instantly published'.
After experiencing an engaging starting point of looking at and talking about and making predictions about a range of hats, the children read the book. Through role-play, they explore a characters’ feelings. They create a short dialogue between the two main characters. The children write and perform a rap that gives the main character advice. Rabbit then appears in class - he hasn’t been eaten by Bear! The children then have the opportunity to hot seat Rabbit to find out what actually happened at the end of the story after formulating questions. They write a letter to Rabbit making suggestions about what he could do. After receiving a reply from Rabbit the children are asked to help Rabbit pack for the journey. After playing Kim’s Game with items in a suitcase, and then write a packing list, children finally plan a sequel called, ‘I Want My Friend Back’.
The children will love coming to school to find a space rocket has crash landed on the playground! Send for a Superhero by Michael Rosen and Katharine McEwen in which children create their own superheroes and use them to defeat baddies set to destroy their school. During the sequence, they write letters and emails asking for help, create wanted posters, generate character descriptions for their invented superheroes and
the create their own version of the Send for the Superhero story.
Maths
We will be teaching maths though NECTM. This is a research-based scheme of learning, consistent with the aims and objectives of the National Curriculum, that is designed to support a mastery approach to teaching and learning.
Science
The children will develop their knowledge of different types of plants and trees and discover how plants change through the seasons.
Geography
Oceans, continents and the UK
We will be learning all about the oceans and continents of the world before focusing on the countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom.
History
Ice Age
The Children will have lots of fun investigating the Ice Age, looking for evidence in the local area of past times.
Art
Children will be exploring the primary and secondary colours.
Computing
Children will learn the basics of coding.
How can I help my child in year 1?
Talking, listening and reading:
We encourage parents to read with their children daily. Local libraries are a fun environment for children to explore books and foster a real love of reading. Comprehension is an important part of reading. This can be developed through asking questions such as 'What do you predict will happen next?' and 'How do you think the character might be feeling?'. This will help bring the book to life!
Please support your children with their homework. Mrs Griggs will be on hand to guide you where necessary.
Writing
Encourage your child to write at home. They may wish to keep a diary, or help with shopping lists.
You can support you child with games on the Letter-join website.
Letter-join whole school handwriting scheme
Maths:
Please practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. This can be a fun game on the way to school, in the supermarket or wherever you can squeeze it in!
NumBots is an online game and playing little and often will significantly improve your child’s recall and understanding of number bonds and addition and subtraction facts. These are critical foundations in maths so we are excited by the impact NumBots will have.
Children will also have fun with music, religious education, PSHE and design technology.
Children in year 1 have a real love for learning. Ask them about some of these projects! Children have bounced into school this term full of enthusiasm for learning and they are very excited to share their learning journeys with you.
KS1 and EYFS children are invited to Festival club with Mrs Griggs on a Thursday after school. This is a fantastic opportunity for children to explore festivals from around the world. Please contact the school office if you wish to sign your child up.