Year 1

Year 1 Class Teacher – Miss Charlotte Curtis

Year 1 marks the beginning of Key Stage 1, which can sometimes be quite a big transition for some young learners. To make this transition as smooth as possible, the children will start the year with opportunities to play and learn, as well as begin to engage in more formal learning. I endeavour to create a calm, engaging, active, and rich learning environment where all learners’ needs are supported, and deeper thinking is encouraged. The children will continue to develop our school values of wisdom, truthfulness, equality, friendship, compassion, and peace.

In English this year, the class will have access to a range of texts to support their oracy, reading, and writing. Reading will be developed through daily phonics sessions, reading with adults, and shared daily reading time. Through this, we will encourage children to ask and answer questions about what they are reading to develop an understanding of a variety of texts.

Through the use of books and multimedia, we hope to foster a love of writing and creativity. Children will have opportunities to write for different purposes. These will always focus on the basic skills of writing simple sentences at the beginning of the year. As their writing becomes more fluent, they will develop more complex sentences toward the end of the year.

In Maths, we will start the year with place value within 10, then move on to addition and subtraction. After Christmas, the children will explore numbers to 20, then to 50, and finally, in the summer term, they will look at numbers to 100.

The children will have time to practice key concepts such as addition and subtraction, while building and developing skills and strategies. They will also expand their understanding of shape, capacity, length and height, time, and money, as well as multiplication, focusing on the 2s, 5s, and 10s.

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