Year 1

WELCOME TO YEAR 1

Welcome to Year 1!
At Stafford Leys we have three Year 1 classes:
Class 4 - Mrs Cotton / Miss Vaghela
Class 5 - Miss Parmar
Class 6 - Mrs Rowley

We have super topics and exciting cross curricular lessons to engage the children in their learning. Please find below some general information about Year 1.

Homework will be set every week on Friday. This can be downloaded in the Homework section below. Please spend some time with your child completing this at home. Homework books must remain at home and if you would like to send us photo's of your child's completed homework please do so by the following Friday using our email: year1@staffordleys.com.
Please make sure reading books are in school every day with reading records. Your child's books will be changed once a week. These books must be returned every Thursday.
Please ensure all your child's items are clearly named including all their clothing items.
Your child should only bring in a water bottle and their school book bag into school.

Year 1 Remote Learning

Year 1 remote learning for pupils isolating at home.
Week beginning 26.04.2021
Thursday English - Plurals
Thursday Maths - End of Unit check

This week's Homework...
Click on the image to open this week's homework.

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Year 1 Common exception words

These are our Year 1 Common Exception Words - you may like to practise spelling these and thereafter writing them into sentences.

Our new spellings are...

The common exception words.

Our new Maths Target is:
Understanding place value numbers up to 100.

Target Challenge - I can say how many tens and ones are in a number. I can explain which number is greater and why.

Singing Assembly

Click the link below to listen to this week's singing assembly....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWE8TX3uIGE

Writing at Home

Please download the phonics mat to help support your child with writing at home.
phase_3_and_5_sound_mat.docx

If your child needs the phase 2 sounds then please download this one. phonics_mat_phase_2_and_3.docx

Strategies we use in school to support writing include the following:

Discussing what sentence we are going to write first.
Counting the words in the sentence.
Stretching the word out to hear all the sounds.
Using a phonics mat and common exception word mat.
Modelling the first sentence before they complete it.
Checking for capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
Encouraging cursive handwriting and writing on the line.

How to challenge writing:

Include 'and' to extend sentences.
Include adjectives.
Use different sentence starters.
Handwriting - form all letters correctly, present work neatly.
Use ? and ! where appropriate.
Begin to spell words correctly.

Please click on the phoneme to download the attached booklet to work on.

READING
Reading is an important part of your child's learning.
Click the link for 'Parent prompts for reading with children'.
For more reading content click on the owl to access the free Ebook library.

Click on the image to access Phonics Play Comics for more reading content.

Our P.E. Days are every Tuesday and Thursday.

Due to only being able to use outdoor spaces these days may vary. Your child's P.E. kit should be in school everyday and each item of clothing should be labelled with their name. Please ensure your child's earrings are not worn on P.E. Days.

Please click here for a link to our curriculum overview.

Our topic for this term is - Great explorers and Animals
Click on the image to find out more!