Year 1 2025 - 2026
Year One Class Teacher
Mrs Lisa Knowles
Hello and welcome to the Autumn Term
Our Christian Value for this term is Friendship.
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. Our book by the author is called Handa's Surprise. 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!
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 Materials and the.
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 on the Friday in school. 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 3rd October 2025
Hello Yellow Day - Friday 10th October 2025
Class Trip to St.Helens Glass- Date to be confirmed.
Parents Evening - Tuesday 2nd December 2025
Christmas Dinner Day - Thursday 11th December 2025
Christmas Carol Service - Thursday 11th December 2025
KS1 Christmas Party - Monday 15th December 2025
Panto in School - Wednesday 17th December 2025
