Welcome to Year 1 

Autumn Term Headlines

• Reading books and red reading records are to be in school every day please.
• PE kits are to be in school every day. Our PE lessons this term are on Tuesday and Friday, however these may change on occasions.
• Water bottles to be sent in on Mondays please and they will be sent home every Friday.
• Coat/raincoat to be brought into school every day. 

Important dates

Mon 15th Sept- Infant welcome evening for Parents – 5pm
Wed 1st Oct- Online Safety Session for parents – 4pm – 4.45pm
Fri 3rd Oct- Harvest Assembly – 9:15 am (Years 1-6)
Tue 14th Oct- Parents Evening 3:30-6:30pm
Wed 15th Oct- Parents Evening 3:30-6:30pm
Fri 24th Oct- Break up for Half Term

HALF TERM

Mon 3rd Nov- Children return to school
Wed 5th Nov- Individual and Siblings photographs
W/b Mon 10th Nov- Anti-bullying Week
W/b 17th Nov- Book Fair in school
Wed 3rd Dec- Flu Vaccine Programme for all year groups
Fri 5th Dec- Christmas Jumper Day
Fri 5th Dec- (tbc) PTA Christmas Fair
Tues 9th Dec- Whole School Trip to Pantomime
Tues 16th Dec- Christmas Play – 2pm
Wed 17th Dec- Christmas Play - 2pm and 6:30pm
Thurs 18th Dec- Christmas Dinner
Fri 19th Dec- Christmas Assembly in Church – 9:15am
Fri 19th Dec- Christmas Party pm
Fri 19th Dec- Break up for Christmas

Phonics/Reading

• Please read your child's phonics reading book with them each day. Any extra reading you can do with your child at home would be most beneficial. This could include a range of non-fiction and fiction books as well as poems. 
• Please practise reading the real and alien word cards your child will come home with. 
•  Please see a list of Year 1 recommended reads below. 

Maths

• We are focusing on number formation and place value within 10.

• Please practise number formation with your child. 

• Counting forwards and backwards from any given number. A good resource to select a given number can be accessed here:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-square

English 

• Practise writing simple sentences with your child. This can be as simple as what you are going to be doing that day. You can write a sentence from a picture from your favourite book, or any book that you have at home. 

• This term we are focusing on capital letters, finger spaces, full stops in the correct place and reading their own work back to check that it makes sense. 

• Please practise letter formation with your child. 

You can find out more about our curriculum this term in the Curriculum Information below. There are also some other useful documents to help your child.