Year 1 2025 - 2026

Mrs Dennehy

Mrs Blair

Mrs Seddon

Welcome to Class 1

Spring 1 - 2025-26

Happy New Year! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed special times with loved ones. We are looking forward to welcoming you back and hearing all your exciting news.

In our Religious Educuation (R.E.) lessons, we will be looking at Branch 3: Galilee to Jerusalem. In this unit of work, the pupils will develop a simple understanding of Christian beliefs related to how Jesus revealed his true, divine nature through his life and ministry. They will learn about Jesus' life from his birth in Bethlehem to revelations about his early life, including the Presentation in the Temple, where Jesus meets Simeon and Anna. They will also learn about others who meet Jesus in his adult life, including Peter, James and John. From Luke's Gospel, they will retell stories about the people Jesus meets, who experience the good news of God's love.

Our main English focus will be based around a beautiful picture book entitled 'The Lion Inside' by Rachel Bright & Jim Field. A wonderful story about confidence, self-esteem, and a shy little mouse who sets out on a journey to find his roar. Fed up of being ignored by the other animals, Mouse wishes he could roar like Lion. But, as he discovers, even the biggest, bossiest people are scared sometimes ... and even the smallest creatures can have the heart of a lion! The rich, descriptive language in the text and wonderfully detailed illustrations will hopefully inspire some fantastic work.

Phonics will continue daily and sounds covered will be sent home weekly for practise. We will be sending spellings home for practise. These will be words including taught phonic sounds and tricky 'red' words.

In Maths we will be looking at place value in 2 digit numbers (tens/ones), recall of number facts including pairs of numbers to make given totals, doubles and related halves,1 more/less than a given number. We will use these facts, along with other strategies, to help solve simple addition and subtaction sums and word problems. We will recognise, name and know the properties of 3D shapes, name and order days of the week, months of the year and the four seasons. We will continue to count on and back in 10's from any given number and count on in 5's and 2's. We will estimate a number of objects.

Topic work has a Geography focus this half term. We will be considering the question 'What is the geography of where I live?' This investigation enables pupils, as young geographers, to identify and begin to understand the key physical and human geographical features of their local area We will use Google Earth and enjoy some fieldwork outside. More details and a useful vocabulary list can be found in the Geography Knowledge Organiser below.

In Science our topic focus is 'Materials'. The children will look at properties of materials and their uses. They will investigate which material would be best to make an umbrella for a teddy and design and make their own. They will consider the importance of a 'fair test'. The Science Knowledge Organiser contains more details in the link below.

PE is on Monday (dance) and Wednesday (games). Children should come to school in PE kits on these days.

Fruit snacks are available daily free of charge. Fairtrade cookies are sold by Year Six children on Wednesdays for 40p and toast is for sale on Fridays for 20p.

Please check the class page regularly for updates and photographs of what have been getting up to in class.

Each child should have their own login details for both Purple Mash and Active Learn. Both online learning platforms offer a great range of learning activities that children enjoy in school.

Remember if you want to contact us, please use the email address [email protected]

-Many thanks

Mrs Blair and Mrs Dennehy

Useful links

Active Learn Login

Purple Mash

Music Links

Mini Music Makers

RNSO music challenges

Stomp Style Body Percussion

Mental Health links:

Please also visit the school's dedicated mental health and well-being page for more information on where to get support.

Welcome to the Class One Learning Hub!

Click on the icons below which will take you straight to the website. The website will give you ideas and activities for their age related learning journey. We will add to this over time. Don't forget to look on Google Classroom for your latest activities!