Ruby Class 2024 - 2025

Miss Oldknow

Year 1 Teacher
PE and Design and Technology Lead

Ruby Class!

Welcome to our Year 1 class page! I can't believe we are in our final term of the year! This year has absolutely flown by and I am amazed at how much the children have matured and grown throughout the year. We have covered so much learning and each child has made so much progress. Heres to our final term and fingers crossed for some more sunshine and outdoor learning!

On our Year 1 class page you will find all the information about our class topics, class news, events, daily routines, homework and dates for your diaries. I will also regularly share the Year 1’s fantastic work on our Twitter and Facebook pages as well as on Seesaw, so please follow us to keep up to date with everything we are learning about in school.

Mrs Fernyhough will be teaching the children every Tuesday afternoon. She will be teaching the children Music, PSHE and RE.

PE sessions are a little bit different in Year 1 and we ask that children come into school IN their PE kits. Our PE days for this half term are Wednesday and Friday, so please remember to come in your PE kit on these days.

As always, if you need any more information please don't hesitate to ask!

Miss Oldknow.

Summer 2

As Writers ...

a midsummer nights dream

Our text this half term is A midsummer night's dream - adapted for children, by Brooke Jorden.

We will be working towards writing a character description that the children will design to include apperance, personality and how they use their magical flower.

Our Mastery Keys are:

- Join words and clauses using and
- Use simple description
- Sequence sentences to form short narratives (link ideas or events by pronouns)
- Use capital letters for names of people and places
- Punctuate sentences using a capital letter, full stop, question mark or exclamation mark

As Mathematicians...

This term in Maths the children be learning about:

Fractions

Position and direction

Time

Money

The WhiteRose app on Apple and Android have some great games to practive maths skills that we are practicing in school.

As Historians...

toys from the past.jpeg

In History this term we will be answering the question 'How are the toys that I play with different to the toys that children played with in the past?'

We will be looking at:

What toys do we play with today?
What toys did our parents and grandparents play with?
What were toys like at different times during the past?
What is different between old and new toys?

As Designers...

DT lettering.jpeg

In DT this half term we will be making our own puppets!

Key Skills:

Using a template to create a design for a puppet.
Cutting fabric neatly with scissors.
Using joining methods to decorate a puppet.
Sequencing steps for construction.
Reflecting on a finished product, explaining likes and dislikes.

As Artists...

In Art this half term we will be creating art work inspired by Flora and Fauna. We will be making collages of MiniBeasts and display as a shared artwork.

As Scientists ...

In science this term we will be learning about plants!

We will be able to :

Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.
Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

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 9th June 2025.

Here are two useful links to help support parents with the pronunciation of sounds that we are learning:

https://vimeo.com/753931102/b9a2f8194f - Phase 3 Pronunciation Video

https://vimeo.com/753933192/43104a30e0 - Phase 5 Pronunciation Video

Seasons

Throughout our time in Year 1, we will be taking part in local walks around our village and down to the canal. This will take part four times throughout the year. We will be looking for signs of the different seasons and analysing what changes we can see as the season changes. This will link to our Science and Geography learning, allowing us to take part in field work, map skills, looking at human and physical features and plants.

Online resources:

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/forestPhonics/index.html

Here you will find a fun phonics game where the children have to select the letters to make the words using their phonics sounds.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources

Here you will find different games where the children have to read and sort the real and nonsense words.

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/

Here you will find information and resources about the different phonics phases.

https://lettersandsounds.org.uk/for-home/y2-phonics-screening-check-revision

Here you will find different video’s for home learning, revising all the phonics sounds.

5. http://www.mrthorne.com/

Here you will find phonics videos that are very useful for pronunciation of sounds.

6. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Here you will find a great selection of games to support all areas of learning.

PE

This half term our PE sessions will take place on a Wednesday and Friday. Please can your child arrive to school in their P.E kit on these days.

During the winter months, it is advisable for the children to bring warm clothes such as tracksuit bottoms as sessions will continue outside where possible.

Reading

Within school, all the children take part in whole class reading sessions, guided reading sessions and individual reads. These sessions aim to develop word recognition, inference skills, comprehension of texts and fluency/understanding of the texts we read. Our inviting reading area with quality texts will allow the children to independently develop their love of reading during quiet reading times.

In KS1 we encourage parents/guardians to read with your child at least 3 times a week and record a short comment in their child’s reading diary about that reading session. They will have the opportunity to change their reading book every week.