Welcome to Year 1
A Very Warm Welcome to Year 1
Welcome to the new academic and the first part of the Autumn term 2025 from all of the Year 1 team.
We are really excited to jump into teaching and learning with our amazing topic:
‘Who can I be?’
This half term we will be learning about all about us! We will be learning about the human body in science and the parts of the body that are used for each sense. We will also be learning about our local area, looking carefully at the area around our school and the human and physical features surrounding us. We will also be thinking about where we are in the world, including the country and continent.
Our focus text this half term will be Juniper Jupiter by Lizzie Stewart.
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Juniper Jupiter is a real life superhero. It's no big deal. She's super brave, super fast, super strong, super smart and she can even fly, but something is missing. What is a hero without an amazing sidekick? It turns out that lots of people want to be a superhero's sidekick, but none of them are quite right. They're too big, too scratchy, too weird, too scared, or WAY too prepared… will Juniper ever find the perfect one? |
Over the half term, we will also be learning:
- Maths - Place Value up to 10, Addition and Subtraction up to 10.
- Science - The Human Body, Autumn Changes.
- Computing - Technology around us.
- Geography - Our Local Area.
- Art - Spirals.
- RE - Our Wonderful World.
- PSHE - Health and Wellbeing
- PE - Dance and
- Outdoor Learning -
Key Dates for Autumn 1
PE and Outdoor Learning
In the Autumn term, PE takes place on... Please see the following timetable.
[Insert 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.
