Welcome to Year 1!

2025-26

In Year 1, our teachers are Miss Ferguson (Class 4), Miss Norman (Class 5) and Mrs Eddie (Class 6). We are also supported by our dedicated Learning Support Assistants (LSAs): Mrs Purdy and Mrs Clarkson.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with your child's teacher. If they are not around at pick-up, you can speak to them by phoning the school office and requesting an appointment.

Keep referring back to this page for regular updates about the children's learning. 

Curriculum Newsletters

Year 1 Autumn 1 - Curriculum Newsletter

Update – Friday 10th October 2025

This week in English, Year 1 were introduced to their brand new book – Beegu. We were greeted with a huge mess that the main character had left us! This hook really got us interested in finding out who made the mess and why they invaded our shared area! Throughout this week, we learnt the story and tried to understand how the main character was feeling and why. 

 

 

 

      

During computing, we reflected on our new mouse skills and put them to the test by recreating scenes from 'The Three Little Pigs'. We had a lot of fun exploring the different drawing options and learning how to change the background colour. Next week will be our final mouse skills lessons!

      

In RE, we recapped what Harvest was and why Christians celebrated it. We remembered that Harvest was a time when Christians said thank you for all the food they have and for all the people in our world who help to grow our food. We thought about some different reasons why Christians might celebrate this festival and discussed whether we agreed or disagreed with them.

   

Update - Friday 3rd October 2025

Throughout the week, year 1, I have been keeping busy!

In English, we completed our Three Little Pigs unit by writing our final piece. Our teachers challenged us to retell the second half of the story using pictures to help us.

         

During our maths lessons, we were introduced to the part-whole model. We needed to understand that when two parts are put together, they make a whole. Later, we then learnt that we can use these numbers to create different number sentences. We practised these on our whiteboards before completing the tasks in our books. 

   

Geography this week was all about the 7 continents! We listened to a very fun song to help us learn what the continents were and why they were important. Once we were confident with knowing their names, we then had to learn where they were on a map. In pairs we worked together to label a map with each continent. We were very interested to learn that we were part of the continent Europe.

      

Update – Thursday 25th September 2025

What a fun-filled and busy week Year 1 has had!

In English, we completed our first-ever apprentice piece! We were challenged to rewrite the first half of 'The Three Little Pigs' story. After showing off our amazing writing skills, it was time to learn the second half of the story, as we will need to rewrite it next week in our final piece. We reordered the story that our teacher muddled up, and then had a go at retelling it to each other with actions. 

         

During our art lesson this week, we were introduced to the colour wheel. We were given a template and had to recreate the colour wheel that our teacher showed us on the board. We had to be very careful to stay inside the lines whilst painting!

       

We had our first computing lesson this week! We were shown how to log in and out again using our special cards. Once we were confident in logging in, our teacher introduced us to the tracker pad! We learnt that this was used to control the mouse, and if we press on something, it is 'clicked'. We opened up a sketchpad and had a go at drawing different pictures with our partners using the click and drag skill.

       

Update – Friday 19th September 2025

Year 1 have been practising using finger spaces in between their words this week. We used lollipop sticks to help us see where the spaces needed to go. We practised on our small whiteboards before showing off our new skill in our English books!

         

During a maths lesson this week, we looked at greater than, less than and equal to. We found it quite tricky to start with, but after some practice with our practical resources, it got much easier! We will continue this learning next week, too!

         

In our geography lesson this week, we were learning all about maps! We learnt about the importance of maps and how they can help us. We watched a short video that explained how maps come in different forms and sizes! As a class, we were then given some time to explore pretend maps as well as real maps in our class atlases. Afterwards, we were challenged to draw our own small maps!

      

   

Update – Friday 12th September 2025

Year 1 has had a fantastic first full week back!

In English, we continued with our three little pigs story. We began to learn the story off by heart through reading, listening and adding actions to important parts of the story. To check our understanding, we used cut-out characters from the story to retell it to each other.

    

In history, we have been talking about how it means learning about the past, and that we all go through stages. We talked about the human life cycle and how each of these stages represents different important aspects of our lives. We then had a go at cutting and sticking a human lifecycle on a timeline. 

   

During our science lessons, we have been learning about materials and that every object is made out of a different material. We had some time exploring different objects on the tables and had to use scientific thinking to determine what we thought each object was made from. 

    

Update – Friday 5th September 2025

What an amazing first 3 days Year 1 has had!

All the children have settled in so quickly and have really shown the teachers how ready they are for this new venture. 

The children have been working hard to understand the new routines and lesson types that we have in Year 1. They have made all of us teachers very proud.

In maths, the children demonstrated their impressive counting skills using counters and tens frames. The children picked a number card and had to make that number using their resources.

      

In English, we introduced our new story – The Three Little Pigs. The children were given a picture, and the teachers challenged them to create 3 sentences about what they could see.

      

We ended the week with some colour mixing in art, and the children even earned some treat time playing outside!