Year 1 2024 - 2025

Mrs Dennehy

Mrs Blair

Mrs Button

Welcome to Class 1

Autumn 2 - 2024-25

We hope you all had a relaxing half term and enjoyed all things Halloween! We are looking forward to welcoming you all back on Monday 4th November. We will spend time settling in, sharing holiday news and catching up with friends.

Our main English focus will be based around a beautiful picture book entitled 'Nibbles' by Emma Yarlett. This is a story about a little monster called… Nibbles. Nibbles likes to nibble soap, socks and rubber ducks, but his favourite thing to nibble is books! Nibbles nibbles his way right out of this book and into some other favourite fairy tales. He makes a mess in the three bears' house, rescues grandma from the big, bad wolf, and steals a golden goose before he's dropped back into his own book. But can it contain him this time? 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.

In Maths we will be looking at place value in 2 digit numbers (tens/ones), simple addition of 2 and 3 numbers, subtraction, number bonds to 10, measuring and comparing length using non-standard measures and recognising coins and making amounts using various coins.

Topic work has a History focus this half term. We will be considering the question 'Why was Charles sent to Prison?'. This investigation enables pupils, as young historians, to consider life and times in Britain during the period of the First World War. It supports pupils to make connections between their lives today and the life and times of children in the past. We will learn about timelines, changes in methods of communication, including messenger pigeons (Cher Ami) and telegrams, translate and write our own messeges using Cipher Code and look at the contributions to the war efforts made by animals. More details and a useful vocabulary list can be found in the History Knowledge Organiser below.

In Science our topic focus is 'Ourselves'. The children will look at how they have changed since being a baby. We will talk about different body parts and our senses. The Science Knowledge Organiser contains more details in the link below.

Children will all be given 2 reading books per week and would all benefit from reading every night. Little and often is best! Homework and spellings will be sent out on Fridays to be handed in by the following Tuesday. We really appreciate your support in this matter.

P.E. for Class 1 will be each Monday (pilates) and Wednesday and the children should come into school wearing their P.E. 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 we 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

If you need an extra link to reading activities. The Learn Live Read Channel will feature one Live read every week day at 10.00. Here's the link! https://learnliveuk.com/learn-live-read-channel/

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!