Year One

Class teacher: Miss Raven

Spring Term Newsletter

Long Term Plan 23-24

Important Days and dates

PE lessons are on a Monday and Tuesday afternoon. Please bring in your kit in on a Monday and take it home on Friday.
Children will receive a weekly phonics worksheet on a Monday to complete.
A termly homework project will take place based on our topic. This term our topic is childhood.
The phonics screening will take place week commencing 10th June 2024.

Spellings

Children will receive a list of half-termly spellings to practice at home. These spellings will be linked directly to the spellings that we have been learning in class each week.
Autumn term spellings 23 -24
Spring term spellings 23 - 24
Year 1 tricky words

Phonics

In year 1 children receive 1 hour of phonics every day. This is spread over two lessons, the first is a teacher led session where children are asked to recognise and vocalise the focus phonics sounds. We use quick fire flash cards and an interactive programme on the interactive whiteboard. At St Mary’s we are following the Floppy’s Phonics scheme, and make great use of the resources within the scheme. We also provide extra activities for further consolidation of phonics sounds.

Reading

We will listen to children reading twice a week, with the class teacher and the teaching assistant.
Reading books will be changed on a regular basis.
Children will be read to regularly as a whole class, when an adult reads aloud children are given an opportunity to be immersed in new language, genres and stories.

Our class saint is St George.

Our class charity is guide dogs UK.