Year 1 2025 - 2026

Mrs Pacey

Y1 class teacher, DT lead.

Miss Rothwell

Y1 teacher, Science lead.

Mrs Wright

Y1 TA

Welcome

Welcome to Year 1! Your teachers are Mrs Hill and Mrs Pacey and we have and amazing teaching assistant called Mrs Wright!

In Year 1 we work very hard and learn about lots of exciting things. Below is our yearly overview so you can see what types of things we will be exploring this year.

Spring Term

During this half term, Year 1 will be looking at some classic fairy tales in English and we will be focussing primarily on 'Little Red Riding Hood'. With spring just around the corner, we will be looking at plants in Science and possibly even planting some of our own! Our PE sessions will tie in nicely with our English topic because we will be following a dance unit called 'Three Little Pigs'. Our DT sessions will be very exciting as we are going to be making healthy smoothies!

Autumn Term

Our topic this half term is The Great Fire of London and we have already learnt so much about this historical event. Ask us about some of the facts and we will be able to tell you all about it as we have been rehearsing our sticky knowledge. Look out for pictures from our 'Alfresco Learning' workshop.

We will be having house meetings soon and even launching our bees for 'Bee Day'.

P.E

P.E days are Tuesday and Wednesday. On these days your child will need to come into school wearing their P.E kit. They need black shorts/tracksuit pants and a white t-shirt or our school P.E kit. Tuesday and Wednesday are the only days where trainers/pumps should be worn. On all other days, your child must be wearing black school shoes, not trainers. If your child wears earrings, please ensure these are removed for P.E days or send plasters if they are unable to be removed.

Milk, fruit and toast

Toast is available for break times. If you wish for your child to have toast, please pay on parent pay. If your child does not have toast please send them in with a piece of fruit.

Milk is available for afternoon snack time and needs to be paid for using 'Cool Milk'. Please contact the school office for further information on this. In the afternoon, we also have a piece of fruit which is provided by school.

Water bottles

Please send your child in to school with a named water bottle for them to drink throughout the day. This must contain water and not juice. Juice can be in lunchtime bottles. Water bottles are kept at the back of our classroom and can be accessed all day.

Contact

Feel free to contact any of the staff from Year 1 with non urgent messages as we may take 5-7 days to respond to emails. Urgent messages need to be sent to the office. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Reading websites:

Oxford owl: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home

Active learn (bug club): https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0&l=0

Some useful websites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cNjAj_o0SI - Yoga

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio- stories and games

https://www.tinkercad.com/ - All kinds of making

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/ - phonics

https://theimaginationtree.com/ creative arts and crafts

https://toytheater.com/ Educational online games

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/ Activities and quizzes

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/ Learning resources