The Year 1 Team 

Welcome to the Year 1 page! Our class teacher is Miss Morley and Mrs Malbon is our HLTA (Higher Level Teaching Assistant). They are always there to ensure we are safe and happy at school.   

In Year 1, learning and play go hand-in-hand as the continuous provision from Reception weaves into our Key Stage 1 Curriculum ensuring a smooth transition. Our curriculum is practical and interactive with lots of opportunities for independent learning and discovery.  

Maths 

We use the White Rose Maths Scheme to develop our knowledge and understanding of Number and Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Fractions, Money, Time, Measurement, Shapes and Position & Direction. We are encouraged to use a variety of manipulatives to take our understanding of numbers and calculation from concrete through to visual and finally to abstract learning. In Year 1, we are beginning to develop our reasoning and problem-solving skills also. Maths skills are embedded through continuous and enhanced provision during Discovery Time. 

English 

Phonics plays a key part in the Year 1 curriculum as we continue to learn alternative graphemes to the phonemes learnt in Reception. To encourage an engaging and visually stimulating learning experience, we use the Monster Phonics scheme which has links to the Letters and Sounds Phonics programme and KS1 Spelling Curriculum. Reading is so important to us, and we really enjoy it! We value our reading resources and environment; we develop our reading skills with VIPERS. We enjoy listening to stories as a whole group and as individuals. We have a full and varied selection of library books in our inviting reading areas both inside and outside the classroom. We are given many opportunities to build our confidence and fluency in reading, including reading signs, labels and captions, shared, guided and individual reading. In writing, visual prompts help remind us how to develop sentences and make our writing more interesting. We develop our English skills through our exciting curriculum projects. 

Project 

We use Cornerstones projects to follow the National Curriculum for English, Science and the foundation subjects. In Year 1 our projects include: 

Autumn Term: Childhood 

Spring Term: Bright Lights, Big City 

Summer Term: School Days 

During our projects we have a ‘memorable experience’ which engages and inspires us to find out more. We develop our understanding of our project by engaging in cross-curricular activities which include Science, History, Art, Geography and DT. This keeps every lesson exciting and provides lots of different opportunities in which to learn. Towards the end of our project, we have the chance to 'express' how much we have learnt over the past few weeks through completing specific creative activities. These help us to retain the information we have learnt throughout our project. 

Key vocabulary is taught throughout and referred to regularly during each Project. 

We also have weekly lessons in PE, RE, Music and PSHE.  

Click below to see the exciting learning we have planned for this half term: