Welcome to Year 1

A Very Warm Welcome to Year 1

Welcome back to the second part of the Autumn term 2025 from all the Year 1 team.
We are really excited to jump into teaching and learning with our amazing topic:

‘Where does our food come from?’

This half term we will be learning about where our food comes from. We will be learning about where our food comes from around the world, including native foods to the UK and foods from different parts of the world and closely looking at farming. We will continue to look at seasonal changes as we move into winter and we will introduce plants, including parts and types, before we look at plants throughout the seasons during the year. We will also be looking at balanced diets and where different foods come from in Design and Technology before designing and making our own fruit salad.

Our focus text this half term will be the traditional tale, The Little Red Hen:

Over the half term, we will also be learning:

• Maths - Addition and Subtraction up to 10, 2D and 3D shapes and patterns.
• Science - Plants, seasonal changes.
• Computing - Digital painting.
• Geography - Where does our food come from?
• DT - Cooking & Nutrition.
• RE - Why do Christians give gifts at Christmas?
• PSHE - Relationships Education
• PE - Agility & Co-ordination and Yoga
• Outdoor Learning

Key Dates for Autumn 2

PE and Outdoor Learning

In the Autumn term, PE takes place EVERY Wednesday and alternate Mondays. Please see the following timetable:

As part of our commitment to ensuring all children are fully prepared for PE lessons, we kindly ask that your child brings in their PE kit at the start of each half term. The kit should be placed in a clearly named bag and left on their peg for the duration of the term.

PE kit consists of:

• Black shorts or jogging bottoms.
• White T-Shirt
• Trainers

In addition to PE kit, please ensure your child has a set of clothes for Outdoor Learning. These clothes should be ones that can get dirty and wet, as activities may include gardening, mud kitchen play and other hands-on learning experiences, in varying weather conditions. It's important that these clothes are durable and suitable for outdoor play and include a waterproof coat and wellies, when necessary. Please only send these on Outdoor Learning days and these will be sent home after the sessions.

Homework in Year 1

Reading - We ask that children read at home with somebody at least three times a week and record this in the communication diary. This will support children to apply their phonics learning and develop their fluency and comprehension skills. Each half term, children will also be sent home with phonics sounds or words to practise.

Phonics support and pronunciations can be found: https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/essential-letters-and-sounds/

Spelling - Spellings will be sent home every Friday in the communication diaries for children to practise. This will support them to apply their phonics knowledge and develop their spelling of tricky words. This will also support their writing.

Maths - Please use Numbots at home to support children's number fact fluency. Logins can be found at the front of communication diaries and you can log in on computers, tablets or phones. This can be accessed using this link: https://play.numbots.com/#/account/school-login/23244

Knowledge Organisers

This is the key knowledge which children will learn in each subject. We will be using these at school to support the children and you can use these at home too.