Year 1 2026 - 2027
Year One Class Teacher
Miss E Blood
Hello and welcome to the Autumn Term
Our Christian Value for this term is Respect.
We will start off the new school year by looking at ourselves. We will be learning through play and writing sentences about ourselves.
The Year One Author of The Term is Eileen Browne.
We will be reading Handa's Surprise, by the author. We have a lovely display showing pictures of Eileen and some of her books for the children to look at and read.
We will be enjoying listening to her stories, writing sentences, story sequencing, writing a story and lots of other things.
In History we will be learning about how our lives have changed in living memory.
We will be learning about Continents and Oceans, Countries of the UK and Capital Cities, in Geography. How exciting! We are even learning some songs to help us remember all th different names.
In Maths, children will be working on addition and subtraction within 10, Place Value to 10, and 2D Shape and 3D Shape.
In Science we will be learning about Animals including Humans.
This term's Art we will be learning about the Artists, Albrecht Durer and Piet Mondrian.
DT we will be looking at Food and Nutrition.
In RE we are learning about Harvest. We will also be learning about The Christmas Gifts.
Homework
Children are expected to read for 10 minutes each night and practise their spellings for the spelling test which takes place on a Thursday in school and a new list sent home each Friday with homework. All children get homework on a Friday and it must be completed before the following Wednesday. The homework will either be Maths, English, Topic, Science or a research project. All homework must be completed in pencil.
There are several apps we use in school to improve math learning. Click the links below to play.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Dates for your diary, this term:
Harvest Festival at Church - Friday 2nd October 2026
Hello Yellow Day - Friday 9th October 2026
Parents' Evening - Thursday 26th November 2026
Christmas Dinner Day - Wednesday 9th December 2026
Christmas Carol Service - Wednesday 9th December 2026
KS1 Christmas Party - Wednesday 16th December 2026
Panto in School - Thursday 17th December 2026
