Year 1
The Year 1 Team
1C - Class Teacher-Miss Chilvers
1SB - Class Teachers - Miss Brassington (Mon, Tues & Weds afternoon ) and Mrs Sutton (Weds morning, Thurs & Fri)
Teaching Assistants - Mrs Marshall and Mrs Warner work across both classes.
Our Curriculum
In Year 1 we follow the National Curriculum and enjoy a full range of subjects. Children will experience lots of first hand experiential learning both in the classroom and around our extensive school grounds.
British values
Phonics
Year 1 continue to follow on from Reception by using the Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS) programme. The aim of ELS is ‘Getting all children to read well, quickly’. It teaches children to read by identifying the phonemes (the smallest unit of sound) and graphemes (the written version of the sound) within words and using these to read words.
Children will only read books that are entirely decodable, meaning that they know all of the graphemes within the book. The children take home a fully-decodable book each week to practise applying their newly-attained phonic knowledge. They will also bring home a ‘sharing’ book for you to enjoy together. This book will contain words that aren’t phonetically decodable.
We only use pure sounds when decoding words (no ‘uh’ after the sound). We must use pure sounds when we are pronouncing the sounds and supporting children in reading words. If we mispronounce these sounds, we will make reading harder for our children. Please watch the videos below for how to accurately pronounce these sounds.
Information for grown ups to help at home
Children need to learn to read and spell these words - https://www.highfrequencywords.org/hfw100fp.pdf
There are some fun stories and games here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories
Some fun, interactive maths games - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/