Year 1

Autumn Term 2024

Welcome to Year 1, we are so excited and can't wait for a year of play, exploration and learning.

This term our main topic is called Childhood and has a History focus. Alongside this topic we will have companion projects. In Art we will be looking at Portraits and Colour Mixing, in DT we will be looking at Shelters and in Geography we will be looking at Our Wonderful World. We will also have weekly RE and Science sessions as well as PE, Music and Jigsaw.

Please remember to wear PE kits to school on Wednesdays.

We will keep you updated on our Learning Journey through Seesaw

*Phonics Screening*

In June the children will undertake the Phonics Screening Check. It is a statutory reading check designed to assess if the children have reached the age appropriate standard of decoding by the end of Year 1. The check consists of 40 words; 20 nonsense words and 20 real words. The words gradually get more difficult; from simple sounds to more complex sounds and longer words. Phonics is part of our everyday teaching and learning and the children will have work on activities throughout the school year so this will be incredibly familiar to them by June. To support your child at home please practise their sound recognition with them. If you scroll down and click our Phonics icon, you will be able to view and use some activities to support at home. Some of these activities will also be shared on Seesaw.

Year 1 Team

Miss Goles

Miss Waller

Mrs Saunders

Mrs Pollard

Miss Paice

Miss Clark

Miss Rumbold

*Our New Curriculum*

As of October 2021,we have begun to use 'Cornerstones' curriculum throughout the school so that we can ensure a solid progressions of skills and knowledge acquisition in the foundation subjects, Science and English particularly.

What is the Cornerstones Curriculum? 

The Cornerstones Curriculum is a creative and thematic approach to learning that is mapped to the 2014 primary national curriculum to ensure comprehensive coverage of national expectations. It is based on a child-centred pedagogy called The Four Cornerstones and is delivered through Imaginative Learning Projects (ILPs) and Knowledge Rich Projects (KRPs), which provide a rich menu of exciting and motivating learning activities that make creative links between all aspects of children’s learning. We believe children learn better when they are encouraged to use their imagination and apply their learning to engaging contexts. Our curriculum provides many learning challenges throughout the academic year that require children to solve problems, apply themselves creatively and express their knowledge and understanding effectively. Cornerstones also provide a rigorous skills and knowledge framework that outlines the end of year expectations in all subjects. These skills and knowledge are tied to activities and are age-related .