St Thomas' Leesfield C of E Primary School - Year 1

Our Team 2020-21

Teachers: Miss S Bamber

Teaching Assistants: Emma Douglas and Angela Roddy

Class Governor: Karl Bonworth

Summer Term First Half Message

I cannot believe we are already starting the summer term and what a busy term it is! This half term we will be learning all about animals in our Beasts and Bugs based learning. First we will be learning about how to group and classify animals in our Egg-Citing Animals topic. Next we will be learning about where animals live and why they can't live in certain places in our Poles Apart topic and finally we will end the term looking at music and making our own musical instruments in our Bare Necessities topic. Hopefully there will be lots of sunshine for us to enjoy this half term too!

Year 1 Classroom - The Snowflake Room

This is our classroom. Take a look around.

Our Outdoor Area

Take a look at our outdoor area. We have great fun here.

Rainbow Room

The Rainbow room is a lovely big room where the children access continuous learning through a variety of played based activities. This is a shared resource with Reception.

The Annexe

We now have a wet room to enable our children to change into waterproofs and wellies so they can access our new equipment safely - and mainly, keep clean and dry! The Rain and Shine room has also been adapted to house even more new outdoor resources and equipment which can be accessed by the children during independent learning time.

Curriculum Information

Please access the document below for information about long term planning in Year 1. This document outlines what will be taught this academic year by subject.

	Y1 Curriculum Long Term Planning 2020-21.pdf	[pdf 98KB]
	Year 1 Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Curriculum.pdf	[pdf 184KB]

Teaching and Learning Newsletters

Please select from the documents below.

	Y1 Autumn 1 Teaching and Learning 2020-21.pdf	[pdf 71KB]
	Y1 Autumn 2 Teaching and Learning 2020-21.pdf	[pdf 87KB]
	Y1 Spring 2 Teaching and Learning 2021.pdf	[pdf 69KB]
	Y1 Summer 1 Teaching and Learning 2021.pdf	[pdf 67KB]

Topic Resources Summer Term First Half

Please click on the links to access resources for the topics you are learning this half term.

Beasts and Bugs

Homework Grids

Please select from the documents below.

	Y1 Sample Homework Grid Autumn Term 2020.pdf	[pdf 146KB]
	Y1 Sample Homework Grid Spring Term 2021.pdf	[pdf 106KB]

Home Learning

Homework Grid

The Homework Grid is to be completed weekly. It is sent home every Friday and expected back into school before the new homework goes out.

Spellings

Each week we will send home a list of the phonics sounds covered that week and keywords for the children to practise at home to help them.

Reading

Book Bag and Planner: Brought to school daily

Reading Books: Changed weekly or more often if necessary

Reading at Home: Little and often - please write in the planner when your child has read at home.

Home/School Book

Please use the planner to communicate with the Year One staff and also record when your child has read at home. We ask for the planner to be signed weekly, it will be checked on a Friday.

Things to Remember

PE Day: Wednesday + continuous outdoor provision - PE kit must be kept in school at all times (in a drawstring bag).

Outdoor Learning

Please make sure your child brings a coat to school everyday. Outdoor learning is a vital part of your child's learning and will happen on a daily basis. We kindly ask for you to provide us with a pair of wellies for your child which can be kept in school so the children can go and learn outdoors in all weathers! The wellies need to be labelled with the child’s name or initials please.

Year 1 Phonics Screening Check June 2021

Please click on the picture link to learn more about the Phonics Screening Checks.

Key Assessment Criteria for Year 1

Please access the documentation below about key assessment criteria in this class.

	Year-1-Common-Exception-Word-Checklist.pdf	[pdf 74KB]
	Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Exceeding Maths.pdf	[pdf 184KB]
	Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Exceeding Oracy.pdf	[pdf 183KB]
	Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Exceeding Reading.pdf	[pdf 182KB]
	Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Exceeding Writing.pdf	[pdf 186KB]
	Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria Maths - Expected BBBs.pdf	[pdf 111KB]
	Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Expected Oracy.pdf	[pdf 177KB]
	Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Expected Reading.pdf	[pdf 130KB]
	Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Expected Writing.pdf	[pdf 194KB]
	Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Science Expected.pdf	[pdf 103KB]