Ruby Class 2024 - 2025

Miss Oldknow

Year 1 Teacher
PE and Design and Technology Lead

Ruby Class!

Welcome to our Year 1 class page! Here you can find all the relevant information about what your child will be learning this half term.

I hope that you have all had a fantastic summer holidays and are ready to get back to school for lots of exciting learning! I am so excited to get to know you all and start our learning together :) .

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.

This year, 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 on a Monday and Thursday, so please remember to come in your PE kit during those days. As some PE lessons may be outside, please can the children wear warm PE clothes during the winter months.

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

Miss Oldknow

Autumn Term 1

As Writers ... lost and found.jpg

Our text this half term is Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers.

We will be working towards writing our own adventure story based on the structure of 'Lost and Found' with a new animal.

As Mathematicians...

This term in Maths the children be learning about:

Place Value (within 10)

Addition and Subtraction (within 10)

Shape

As Historians...

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In History this term we will be answering the question 'Who are our Health Heroes and has time changed the way people help us?'

We will be looking at health heroes from past and present and how they have made an impact on present doctors and nurses.

As artists...

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In Art this term will be exploring 'spirals'.

As scientists ...

In science this term we will be focusing on 'materials'.

We will be focusing on:

Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made

Identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass,
metal, water, and rock

Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials

Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their
simple physical properties.

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. For the first week of this half term, the children will recap on all phase 2-5 GPCs and practise reading real and pseudo words that include these. The children will then continue to further develop their reading by learning phase 6 GPCs, which include alternative graphemes. Below are a selection of websites which will help support the children with their phonics at home.

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 Monday and Thursday. 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.