Year 1
Welcome to the class page for year 1. Here you can find useful website links to support your learning as well as our class letters and any other news about our class.
Useful Websites
Maths links
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=Year%201%20maths
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zjxhfg8
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular
English links
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/literacy/
Science
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6svr82
Yearly Overview
At Glenmere we have established, within each year group, an overview for the year within out 'Broader Curriculum. This includes what is covered across the curriculum in addition to maths and English.
Class Newsletters
Our class newsletters celebrate all the great learning that has been going on in our class. They are full of the learning that has been taking place and how the children have been learning in many ways.
Supporting Your Child Letters
These letters will help you to give your child the support needed at home to compliment the teaching that is taking place in school. They are full of ideas and useful website links for the topics being taught
Knowledge Organisers
Here are our knowledge organisers where you can see what is being taught in school and the vocabulary that we are using to support our knowledge and understanding
Autumn Term
Geography - What's it like here?
PSHE - Families and relationships
RE - Who is a Muslim and how do they live?
RE - Why is Christmas important to Christians?
Design and Technology - Fruit and vegetables
Spring Term
Geography - What's the weather like in the UK?
Art - Painting and mixed media
Design and Technology - Textiles - Puppets
RE - Who is Jewish and how do they live?
RE - What do Christians believe God is like?
Science - Everyday materials 2
Phonics
Through the teaching of phonics, children are taught the essential skills needed for reading. At Glenmere we use Rocket Phonics as a systematic synthetic phonics programme. All teaching and materials are used to support the teaching within these lessons. Phonics is taught daily to all children in Reception, and KS1. All pupils are provided with fully decodable books and these are introduced when all the grapheme phoneme correspondences have been taught.
Here you will find our phonics overview which outlines our approach to teaching phonics at Glenmere, following Rocket Phonics
Click the weblink for more information.
https://www.risingstars-uk.com/series/rising-stars-reading-planet/phonics-guide/advice-for-parents
The Reading Planet Guide to Reading with your Child provides guidance for reading at home with children aged 4-7 years. This handy guides explains phonics and book banding and includes tips of developing comprehension skills.
Impact
The teaching of phonics starts as soon as children join reception. Assessments are completed at the start of Reception and Year 1 and then formative assessments are carried out within daily and weekly teaching through observations. End of half-term assessments are also used as a tool to identify strengths and next steps.
In the summer term of Year 1 there is a national phonics test where children have to read 40 real and alien words to check their understanding of phonics.
Personal Growth
At Glenmere, we like to ensure our pupils to be prepared to engage as individuals, parents, workers and citizens with economic, social and cultural change, including the continued globalisation of the economy and society, are able to adapt to new work and leisure patterns and keep up with the rapid expansion of communication technologies.
See below the Knowledge organiser
Computing
Please take a look at the knowledge organisers for the scheme of work that we use at Glenmere in year 1.
Recommended Book List for Year 1
Take a look at the books that are recommended for year 1 readers.
White Rose Maths Resources
These letters will help you to give your child the support needed at home to compliment the teaching that is taking place in school. They are full of ideas and useful website links for the topics being taught.
White Rose Maths is excited to have produced a range of work booklets for parents and children to use over the summer or during next year. These booklets can be found on Amazon for the Kindle or downloaded below. There is one booklet for each of our blocks for Y1 to Y6.
https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/primary-resources/parent-workbooks/