Welcome to Year 1
The Year 1 class team includes Miss Fitzgerald, the class teacher; and Mrs Woodward, the teaching assistant.
During PPA (planning, preparation and assessment) time on a Tuesday afternoon, Mrs Budd teaches the class Computing and Music, and Danny teaches PE.
Here you will find links to our year ahead and useful websites linked to our learning.
Year 1 is always a very busy year where children grow in confidence with their learning. I would ask that you support your child in their learning by encouraging them to write short sentences using a capital letter and a full stop and rehearse their phonics to aid their writing and reading. In maths, it would be helpful for you to practise number bonds to ten and simple addition and subtraction.
I look forward to working with your child over this forthcoming year.
Our four school rules are: be ready, be respectful, be safe and be the best you can be.
We aim to ensure that excellent behaviour is a minimum expectation for all. Being ready to learn at all times and allowing others to be ready as well.
With the growing awareness of love for all, we will help children towards true respect for the beliefs and cultures of others. We will also adopt a respect for the environment. We aim to ensure that children feel safe at all times.
We will ensure that each child will have experiences of forgiving and being forgiven. We will encourage children to accept responsibility for their actions and to apologise when necessary.
To be ready to learn in school please support the children with:
P.E. – Our P.E. days are Monday and Tuesday. All children are expected to take part in a full P.E. kit and trainers.
Reading at Home - Children should read for 15 minutes each night - this could be their school rhino readers book, a library book or a book of their own choice from home.
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English: In Year 1, we will be exploring poems inspired by the natural elements: mud, sand, water and wind. The children will use their senses to describe how mud feels squishy and sticky, how sand trickles through their fingers, how water splashes and sparkles, and how wind whooshes and whistles. We will focus on simple rhymes, repeating phrases and exciting describing words to help bring their ideas to life.
Maths: In Year 1, we will be learning about place value to 50, with a focus on counting in groups of ten. The children will practise counting forwards and backwards to 50 and will begin to understand how numbers are made up of tens and ones. We will use practical resources such as tens frames, counters and bundles of straws to help the children see and build numbers in groups of ten.
RE: In RE, we will be learning about forgiveness and why it is important in our lives and in the lives of others. The children will explore the meaning of forgiveness through discussion, role play and reflection. We will make links to the Bible story of Parable of the Prodigal Son, where Jesus teaches about love, mercy and welcoming others back with kindness.
Other: In Science, we will be learning about plants by comparing different flowers. The children will observe a variety of flowers closely and will begin to notice similarities and differences in their petals, colours, sizes and shapes.
At Saint Augustine’s Primary School, our school rules are simple yet powerful: Be Ready, Be Respectful, Be Safe, and Be the Best You Can Be.
These school rules guide us in everything we do, helping us create a positive, caring, and inspiring learning environment.
Being ready means coming prepared to learn and try our best every day.
Being respectful reminds us to treat others with kindness and value everyone's contributions.
Being safe ensures that we look after ourselves and others, both inside and outside the classroom.
And striving to be the best we can be encourages us to aim high, work hard, and take pride in our achievements.
Together, these rules help us to grow into confident, compassionate, and capable individuals.