Year 1

The staff in 1S are Mrs Sian and Miss Hinds
The staff in 1M are Miss McKenna and Mrs Willis

Our email addresses are:

a.mckenna@woodgate.bham.sch.uk

g.sian@woodgate.bham.sch.uk

What the children say about Year 1...

"I love all my friends and teachers in school." - Kenzo

"I love learning about animals - reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish and mammals. We are mammals." - Ben

"I really enjoyed our visit to Black Country Living Museum. My favourite part was going into the houses." - Talayah

"I loved making my animal home. I planned, designed and created it. It was fun." - Andre

Important Information

PE days - Monday and Friday

Homework - Friday

Little Wandle decodable book - Tuesday

Reading for pleasure book - Friday

Any timetable changes will be communicated via text or letter.

Look at all the things we learn about in Year 1!

	Year 1 Curriculum Learning
Autumn 1	Transition
	Music – My Favourite things
	Science - Animals
	Geography – Where I live
	Art – Make your mark
	DT - Puppets (Textiles)

Autumn 2	Computing - Just Paint & Write
	History – Local History
	Computing - Photographs and Painting
	Art – Colour Splash
	Science – Materials

Spring 1	Music – Fairy Tales
	Computing - Gathering Data & Creating Charts
	History – Great Fire of London
	Geography - Penguins

Spring 2	Art - Woven Wonders
	Science - Senses
	Art - Paper play
	DT – Smoothies (Cooking)


Summer 1	Computing - Simple Algorithms
	History - Pompeii
	Science– Seasons
	Computing - Simple Algorithms
	Music – Seaside



Summer 2	DT – Construct a windmill (Structures)
	Geography – By the sea
	Computing - Digital Literacy
	Science – Plants
	Art – Exploring line and shape

Year 1 Timetable

Homework

Children in Year 1 are expected to read their Little Wandle book daily.

Every Friday your child will be sent home with a phonics sheet.

The phonics sheet will outline the phonemes and tricky words learnt that week so these can be revisited and consolidated at home. The sheet itself will be self explanatory but if you need any support or guidance, please see a member of the Year 1 team. The phonics sheet does not need to be returned.

Children will be sent home with 2 books every week. One book is to build upon their decoding and fluency skills (changed on a Tuesday) and the other is a choice book for reading for pleasure (changed on a Friday). Please ensure they bring their book and diary in everyday as children will need their decodable book for their Early Reading sessions in school. Books that are lost/damaged will incur a charge of £5.

Children should be reading their book daily. Please remember to sign the reading record every time they have read so your child can be a Reading Ambassador.

P.E is on Monday and Friday.

On these days your child can wear their full PE kit into school.

A full PE kit is a red t-shirt, black shorts and black trainers. We do not allow children to wear pumps during PE so please ensure your child has trainers. If you do not have a full PE kit please come to school in your normal uniform and change into your PE kit before the lesson.

No jewellery is allowed in PE. This also includes studded earrings. If your child is unable to remove their earrings, then please send them in with plasters to cover them up.

For Dance and Gymnastics, children will have bare feet. If your child is unable to do PE in bare feet, please send in a letter. If the child does not have the correct PE kit, they will not be able to take part in the lesson for health and safety reasons.

Welcome to Year 1!

We've had a fantastic start to the year. The children have settled in extremely well and are responding positively to the new routines and structure. A great start to a great year!

We'll keep updating this page with new information, routines, lessons and photos. So please keep visiting this page.

School Trip - Botanical Gardens

We had an amazing time at the famous Botanical Gardens. Autumn was a great time to visit because we got to see the fantastic colours, the autumnal feel was mesmerising. The children loved the animal handling session immensely. Here are some highlights from the day.

October

October has started with a bang! The School Grounds Week has kept us so busy...exciting times! We've had so much fun learning and creating. Some of the activities we took part in were - conker paintng, minibeast hunt, painting tyres, prepping for our caterpillar scarecrow, painting our scarecrow, making bird feed, designing windchimes and butterfly bunting amongst other things!

You don't believe us? Just look at the evidence!