Welcome to Year 1

Summer 1 2026

Useful Documents 

Dear Parents and Carers, 

We wish you a warm welcome back after the half term break. We hope you have had a restful and enjoyable time with your families. We look forward to the exciting term ahead of us. The children will be reminded of our school values of Respect, Good Manners, Patience, Perseverance and Honesty and they will continue to earn dojo points for good behaviour, attitudes and effort. Punctuality and good attendance is key to supporting your child's education and ensures they do not miss vital learning.

As part of our school expectations, we will continue to remind pupils of our school values of Respect, Good Manners, Patience, Perseverance and Honesty and they will continue to earn Dojo points for good behaviour, attitudes and effort.

Our topic for Spring 2 is 'The Great Outdoors'.

Homework

Your child’s homework grid will be sent home at the beginning of the term and will focus on reading, phonics and handwriting plus support for maths. 

Please encourage your child to complete their homework each week.  Homework is given out on a Friday and is expected to be completed and returned no later than the following Wednesday.  We do encourage adults to support with homework so as to develop your child's understanding of skills and strategies to fulfil the task.  

It is important that your child learns to practice their phonic sounds as this will support their blending skills for reading and with spelling. It is crucial that you read with your child as much as possible at home to support their phonics and also their understanding of different texts. I must impress on you the importance of your child reading regularly as this supports their development in their oracy and writing skills as well.  It is vital that they learn their weekly vocabulary as this is linked to the book they will be reading in class the following week.

P.E.

P.E. will take place on Thursday afternoons. Please ensure your child comes to school in their full P.E kit - Yellow P.E shirt with the school's logo, black joggers or shorts or leggings, black pumps and their school green sweatshirt. Also make sure that your child has their earrings removed or covered by plasters from home on this day. 

English

In English this half term, we will be focussing on stories with familiar settings and stories with outdoor settings such as camping outdoors. We will explore the key features of stories and create stories using settings that we are familiar with. We will develop our use of capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. We will explore the text and use the Talk 4 Writing approach to retell, innovate then invent our own stories. Phonics will continue throughout the day and there are some links in the website star for you to support your child at home.

Maths

We will be practising our 2x, 5x and 10x times tables which all year 1 children should be able to recall confidently. Therefore, we ask that you practise these with your child as much as possible. Our main focus will be ensuring the children have mastered numbers up to 40 by: counting, writing, ordering and adding and subtracting them. Then we will move on to multiplication. We will learn the foundations of equal groupings, repeated addition, arrays and doubling.  After this we will be moving on to division. We will be grouping items and sharing them equally. Lastly we will look at fractions. We will learn what a half and a quarter is and how they have equal parts. We will then make the link between division and fractions.

Science

Our Science topic our topic is ‘Every day materials.’  We will be distinguishing between an object and the material that it is mad. We will identify every day materials such as: wood, plastic, glass, metal, water and rock. Then we will describe the properties of these materials. Lastly we will compare and group materials based on their properties.

DT

We will be looking at play equipment and investigate how it is made. We will discuss the purpose of playground equipment and who the audience would be. We will then design a prototype of a slide and experiment with materials to make our own slides. We will then evaluate our products. 

If you have any concerns, do not hesitate to discuss these with us at the beginning or end of the school day or arrange an appointment through the school office. We hope your child has an amazing first half term being the best that they can be.  As always, we all hope that you stay healthy, safe and happy!

From all the Year 1 team:

Mrs Smith - Class Teacher (Tuesday- Friday)

Mrs Begum - Class Teacher (Monday)

Mrs Ali - PPA Teacher 

Mrs Haji - Teaching Assistant 

Ms Iqbal - Special Support Assistant