Class 1
Welcome to Year 1
2024-2025
Year One begins the children's journey into Key Stage One, so it's a very important year!
We offer Continuous Provision and enhanced learning opportunities alongside precision group teaching, there is plenty of hands on learning through our inspiring and creative curriculum.
Meet the Team
Mrs Kirkham (Class Teacher)
Mrs Robinson (Teaching Assistant)
Mrs S Wyn (PPA teacher)
Our class page is an area where you will find out about learning this term, also our fantastic Facebook page and Class Dojo's if you are already a parent/carer.
Please read our autumn newsletter at the top of this page to find out more!
PE
PE will take place on Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child comes to school in a full PE kit on those days . This consists of a white T shirt ,black plain shorts and black or white trainers. Please ensure earrings/jewellery is removed.
Forest school
Forest school sessions will be held on a Friday afternoon, these sessions will go ahead unless extreme weather. The children can bring their wellies into school and these will be kept in school during the term, enabling the children to access our outdoor learning area weekly.
The children will need to bring long trousers or leggings and a warm coat, hat and gloves (weather flexible) each Friday.
Things you can do to help at home :
Counting to 100 and beyond forwards and backwards
Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
Spotting numbers when you are out and about .
Reading the words and sounds which your child will bring home each week.
Reading your guided reading book which will come home on a Wednesday and to be returned the following Monday. This book will have been specifically matched to your child's ability, enabling them to read to you fluently and expressively - using the phonics skills taught to them earlier that week in school.
Reading and enjoying your child's chosen library book with them.
Reading your Collins e-reader
Our door is always open.
Do not hesitate to ask if there is anything else you need.
Thank you for your support
Mrs S Kirkham and the Year 1 Team
Writing in Year 1
To enable our children to write effectively and coherently we teach Writing using 'The Write Stuff' approach by Jane Considine. This approach is used in Year 1 and Year 2 and allows children to apply basic skills, vocabulary and grammar knowledge to write effective sentences, which are full of impact and keep the reader interested. 'The Write Stuff' brings clarity to the mechanics of teaching writing. It is introduced though the 'Writing Rainbow', using the three zones of writing.
From 'The Writing Rainbow', symbols are used to support children within their writing journey and to ensure that all children can use them in context as they move through KS1.
As part of the teaching sequence, teachers plan experience days; sentence stacking lessons and independent writing sequences. Experience days immerse children in experiences linked to their writing and drench them in vocabulary linked to the lenses in 'The Writing Rainbow'. From the experience days, children take part in the sentence stacking lessons. Sentence stacking lessons include effective demonstration writing from the teacher and the writing of three high-quality sentences with focuses on lenses of the rainbow. Children are also given the opportunity to 'Deepen The Moment' and add more to their writing using a lense of their choice. Independent writing sequences give children the opportunity to showcase everything they've learnt in their experience days and sentence stacking lessons.
Over their time at Holme Slack, children will write a range of genres focused on high-quality texts. The chosen texts and genres cover a wide range of themes, including cultural, social and physical diversity. All fiction texts are explored through a central character, where the children put themselves in their position and focus on the highs and lows of story events and discuss the range of emotions from plot point to plot point.
Handwriting in Year 1 (age 5–6)
In Year 1, your child will learn to:
- sit correctly and use the right pencil grip
- form lowercase letters in the correct way: starting in the right place, moving the pencil in the correct direction and finishing in the right place
- form capital letters in the correct way
- forming the digits 0–9
- understand which letters are formed in similar ways
- to leave a space between words.
Phase 4 Tricky words
Tricky words are common words which are not able to be segmented, these are sometimes tricky for the children to read and write.