Maple Class 2025 - 2026
Miss Oldknow
Year 1 Teacher
PE and Design and Technology Lead
Welcome to our Year 1!
We have lots of exciting opportunites planned for our first half term togegther in Year 1 and I can't wait to get started! To find out what we have planned and ways in which you can support your child at home, please download the Year 1 Leaflet for this term attached at the bottom of the page. We hope the information will help support your child's learning!
We have PE on Monday and Wednesday - your child can come to school in their P.E kit on these days.
Please ensure children have their reading books and reading records in school with them each day. Reading is to be done throughout the week and recorded in your child’s reading record. Your child’s reading book will be changed weekly, as well as a ‘reading for pleasure’ book for you to share with your child.
I will also regularly share Year 1’s fantastic work on our Facebook and Instagram pages as well as on Seesaw, so please follow us to keep up to date with everything we are learning about.
As always, if you need any more information please don't hesitate to ask. You can contact me via the school phone number or by emailing holdknow@littleleighprimary.cheshire.sch.uk.
Phonics
Every day Year 1 will have a phonics lesson. At Little Leigh Primary School we follow the Essential Letters and Sounds scheme of work. Please see the 'Files to Download' section at the bottom of the page to download all resources to help support your child with Phonics at home.
Our Phonics Screening Check will be taking place week commencing 8th June 2026.
Here are two useful links to help support parents with the pronunciation of sounds that we are learning:
Online resources:
https://vimeo.com/753931102/b9a2f8194f - Phase 3 Pronunciation Video
https://vimeo.com/753933192/43104a30e0 - Phase 5 Pronunciation Video
Here you will find a fun phonics game where the children have to select the letters to make the words using their phonics sounds.
Here you will find different games where the children have to read and sort the real and nonsense words.
Here you will find information and resources about the different phonics phases.
Here you will find different video’s for home learning, revising all the phonics sounds.
Here you will find phonics videos that are very useful for pronunciation of sounds.
Here you will find a great selection of games to support all areas of learning.
