Year 1 2025 - 2026

A big welcome to Year 1.

Our teachers and teaching assistants are:

1SS Mrs Shipley and Mr Thorne

1AD Mrs Dobson and Mrs Somers

Reading Books

Children are given a new decodable reading book each week and will read some of this book during the week in school.  They will bring this book home on Friday and we ask that they read it to an adult at least twice. Children will also be allocated books online from Oxford Owl.  Log in details can be found inside your child's blue reading record.  Please write a brief comment (including date, title, pages read) in your child's blue reading record of any books read by your child.  

Children will also choose a 'Reading for Pleasure' book from the class library to take home on Fridays. 

Please encourage them to look after these books and return all books to school the following Thursday. 

PE

Children should come to school in their school PE kits (please see uniform information) on PE days. Our PE days are: 

Year 1SS - Monday and Tuesday 

Year 1AD - Monday and Friday

Seesaw

Please check Seesaw regularly, especially on Fridays, as this is where we post weekly homework, updates and reminders about any upcoming events in school. We will also post photographs and videos celebrate the children's learning.

Homework

In addition to daily reading, Year 1 children will also be set a small piece of English or maths homework every Friday via Seesaw. Please make sure you are logged into your child's Seesaw account to access their homework activity. This homework should be completed on the sheet provided, or directly onto Seesaw.  We then ask that you photograph the completed work and upload onto Seesaw so that we can record and mark it.  Please do not return sheets to school. 

Useful websites

Phonics screening check example

Phonicsplay

Oxford Owls

Mathletics

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