Year 1
Welcome to Year 1
Mrs Dent and Mrs Paice are the class teachers and Mrs Masterson is the classroom assistant, and will be supporting in class every morning and most afternoons.
We are looking forward to welcoming the children back to school and have lots of fun learning planned. In Year 1 we will be building on all the skills developed in Reception and developing our skills further through new topics and stories.
This year we will cover a variety of skills, knowledge and understanding including the following topics:
- Dinosaurs (Mary Anning)
- Toys
- Animals including humans
- Plants
- Fairy tales
The children will be participating in PE on Tuesdays and Fridays in Autumn 1 and 2. Their PE kits should be in school every day. Wellington boots also need to be brought into school to remain here so that the children can take part in our fantastic OPAL lunchtime playtimes.
Reading books and reading records will also need to be brought into school every day. The children will be asked to place them in the reading box when they come in. Please continue to read with your children as much as possible at home and make a note in the reading record when you do.
Spelling words will be sent home to learn on a Thursday (based on the weeks Phonics lessons) and will be tested the following Friday. We thank you for all your support in helping your child to practice and learn these words. We encourage the ‘Look, Cover. Write, Check’ method.
We look forward to an exciting year ahead in Year 1.
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday - Mrs Dent
Thursday and Friday – Mrs Paice
Year 1 Curriculum Overviews
Year 1 Reading Spine
Book List
100 books to read before you leave Year One!
Information
Reading meeting Year One Autumn 2025
New to Year 1 Parents meeting 2025Phonic Ideas
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Choose the phase that is applicable to your child.
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This will help you pronounce the 44 phonetic sounds that the children will need to learn
2025-26
Week Commencing 23rd March LI: To recognise littering in our environment.
Year 1 discussed what littering meant to them and where they had seen it. They then went outside and investigated the litter in our school. The children spent some time litter picking.
Week commencing 16th March 2026 LI: To paint
The children focused their learning on painting their main pieces of art linked to Yayoi Kusama.
Week commencing 9th March 2026 LI: To partition numbers.
The children continued to look at tens. They partitioned and grouped tens and ones using different equipment.
Week commencing 2nd March - World Book Day
Today the children have enjoyed different activities linked to different books, as well as a book tasting session in the hall. At the start of the day we shared The girl and the Dinosaur, which is one of our five best books. The children then had fun completing different activities based on the book. They then began to write their own stories based on the book Martha Maps it out. Finally, we ended the day with the Hungry Caterpillar and tasted lots of different fruits as part of out DT learning. It was also lovely to share stories with our grown ups that joined as today.
Week commencing 23rd February 2026 LI: To solve problems
The children were acting out subtraction problems in their talking partners.
WC 26th January 2026 LI: To recognise our senses.
The children practised their listening skills, and played a game testing their sense: to hear.
Week commencing 19th January 2026. LI; To understand birds in nature.
Year 1 had a lovely time creating bird feeders using waste items; milk bottles, old fruit and string.
Week Commencing 12th January LI: To recognise place value
The children looked at teen numbers using base ten.
Wednesday 7th January LI: To count
The children continued to practise number bonds to 10 using their oracy skills.
Week commencing 15th December 2025 LI: to investigate
The children thought about what materials would be efficient to make a waterproof coat for Rudolph.
Week commencing 8th December 2025 LI: To investigate 3D shapes
The children created different 3D shapes using play d'oh.
Week commencing 1st December 2025 LI: To perform
The children practised orally rehearsing their plans linked to the Lion.
Week commencing 24th November LI: To recognise 2D shapes
Week Commencing 17th November LI: To predict
Year 1 entered class to quite a surprise on Monday. Someone had made a mess in the reading area. They had left three bowls, three spoons and porridge oats. The children had to look at the evidence and predict who it was and why.
Week commencing 10th November 2025 LI: To investigate materials
Year 1 looked at same items that were made from different materials. The children thought about their uses.
Week commencing 3rd November 2025 LI: To investigate
The children completely immersed themselves in our Fairy tales day. They completed lots of fun activities linked to different stories.
Week commencing 20th October 2025 LI: To investigate
Year 1 had a wonderful time at Hertfordshire zoo. The children investigated different dinosaurs and even found the dinosaur that they had learned about linked to Mary Anning! The children then completed a dinosaur Jurassic workshop. After a delicious lunch, the children braved the weather and found lots of different animals! The children showed exemplary behaviour throughout the day and had a fabulous time!
Week commencing 13th October 2025. LI: To recognise our feelings.
As part of Hello Yellow day the children doodled their different feelings and listened to types of different music when they doodled.
They thought about their different feelings.
Week commencing 6th October 2025 LI: To understand safety in our community.
Year 1 had a fantastic road safety workshop learning about people who help us in and around the road. They thought about the different people who help us and how they help us when we need them. The children thought about their own safety in cars too.
Finally the children had a chance to sit in a police car, listen to the sirens and beep the horn!
Week Commencing 29th September 2025 LI: To investigate the Forest school
Year 1 enjoyed being outside in the forest school area. They made conker necklaces.
Week Commencing 22nd September LI: To create
Year 1 investigated the natural environment to find materials that would be good to use as dinosaur skin. The children will use the materials to complete rubbings using crayons.
Week Commencing 15th September LI: To investigate
The children had a very immersive and exciting dinosaur explorer day.
The children started the day making dinosaur skeletons and then skin. In the after noon the children hunted for dinosaurs and created footprints around the school.
Week Commencing 8th September LI: To investigate
Year 1 had a fantastic time learning about different foods. They read the hungry Caterpillar and then created their own colourful caterpillar using different fruits and vegetable. The children then tried the food. They tried to challenge themselves to try new foods.
The food they tried were: red, green and yellow peppers, tomatoes, spinach, radishes, grapes and oranges.