Year 1 2026 - 2027

Mrs Blair

Mrs Dennehy

Mrs Button

Welcome to Class 1

Autumn Term 2026-27

We are really looking forward to welcoming our lovely new class. We have been busy preparing the classroom and planning lots of exciting things for the children to do once they start Class One on Wednesday 2nd September. We are sure they will look very grown up in their shirts and ties! We will spend time settling in, playing and catching up with friends. Our children are able to access continuous provision throughout Y1. This provides them with purposeful, hands-on opportunities to revisit, practise and extend their learning through play, exploration, problem-solving and challenges accross the curriculum.

What will we be learning?

Our English will be based around a range of beautiful picture books such as, 'The Leaf Thief', 'Not a Stick', 'The Gruffalo' and 'Pumpkin Soup'. The rich, descriptive language in the texts and wonderfully detailed illustrations will hopefully inspire some fantastic work. We aim to unlock the children's imagination and creativity and give them a real reason to communicate, draw and write.

Phonics will continue daily and sounds covered will be sent home for practice along with reading books.

In Maths we will be looking at numbers to 20, simple addition and subtraction, one more/less, 2D shape and counting in patterns of numbers. Our work is very practical and moves from concrete, to pictorial to abstract. We develop mathematical language and talk, and build reasoning and problem-solving from the beginning.

In Religious Education our first branch is 'Creation and Covenant'. It introduces children to the Christian belief that God is the loving Creator of the world and everything in it. We explore the Creation story from Genesis, learn that God made each person and loves them, and begin to understand that the world is a precious gift that we have responsibility to care and protect.

Topic work has a Geography focus this half term. We will be considering the question 'What is it like here?'. This investigation encourages children to look closely at where they live and learn, represent it on a map, and think like young geographers about how their environment could be made better.

In Science our topic focus is 'Forces and Space -Seasonal Changes'. The children explore the four seasons and the changes they bring to our world. They investigate seasonal weather, how trees change and explore differences in daylight hours and consider how seasonal changes affect our everyday lives. They become young scientists by observing, questioning and recording.

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 after Christmas, coming home 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 (Gymnastics} and the children should come into school wearing their P.E. kits on these days.

General information

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 30p.

Please check the class page and Instagram 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, Mrs Dennehy, Mrs Button and Miss Donato

Useful links

Active Learn Login

Purple Mash

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!