Year 1 2024-2025

Welcome to Year 1!

Miss Rowe - 1BR  & Mrs Rowley 1JR

Important Information 

We will post updates and information here, and important messages will be communicated via the app so please make sure you are checking there regularly. Please don't hesitate to contact your teacher either in person or via email admin@didsburyroad.stockport.sch.uk if you have any questions 

Books

Children's reading books will be changed each Thursday. Children will bring home a library book, home reader, levelled reading book and a Monster Phonics book. Please sign and comment in their reading records whenever they read at home as this will help us to monitor children's progress. If you do not have a yellow reading record please ask in the office for a new one. 

PE Kit

Our PE days for Autumn 1 will be Monday (indoor) & Friday (outdoors). 

Our PE days for Autumn 2 will be Thursday(indoor) & Friday (outdoors). 

Please ensure your child comes into school wearing the correct PE kit on these days. Navy or black shorts/leggings/joggers, white or house colour T-shirt and a black or navy sweatshirt. 

What are we learning in Autumn 2?

Our topic is - Toytastic!

• English: We continue to focus on consolidating core writing skills - capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

We will be reading ' Lost in the Toy Museum' and ' Traction Man' and use these text to help us write basic sentences based on familiar stories, learn how to use adjectives in our work and create new characters.

Phonics: We are following the Monster Phonics scheme through daily Phonics lessons. We will also be practising our spelling of common exception and high frequency words, as well as covering the spelling of Year 1 words including numbers, contractions, days, months and colours.

• Maths: This half term we will start by completing our addition and subtraction unit and introduce geomerty. We will continue to follow the Mastering Number scheme to consolidate the number facts we have learned this year.

• Science: We will be learning all about Materials. 
• History: We will be looking at remembrance and also the history of toys.
• Art: In Art we are studying work by the Artist Andy Warhol. 
• PE: In our indoor PE sessions we will be working with a specialist PE teacher in gymnastics. 
• PSHE: We will be learning about germs, bullying and the feeling of jelousy.
• RBV (Religion, Beliefs & Values): We will be continuing with our focus question 'What does it mean to belong to a faith community'.
• Other events; We will be celebrating children in need. As a school we will launch our value day of happiness and then moving onto Christmas and invitinig you to join us for our special performance of 'Kid Christmas' 

What are we learning in Autumn 1?

Our first topic is - Magical Me!

• English: We will be focusing on consolidating core writing skills - capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

We will be learning about ourselves, our families, our bodies and what makes us unique. We will read 'Our Class is a Family’, ‘What Makes Me a Me’ and ‘Funny Bones’ and use this to help us write basic sentences based on familiar stories.

Phonics: We are following the Monster Phonics scheme through daily Phonics lessons. We will also be practising our spelling of common exception and high frequency words, as well as covering the spelling of Year 1 words including numbers, contractions, days, months and colours.

• Maths: This half term we will start with place value to 10. Our next topic is addition and subtraction within 10.Our last topic is Geometry, focusing on 2D and 3D shapes. We will continue to follow the Mastering Number scheme to consolidate the number facts we have learned this year.

• Science: We will be learning all about the human body and our senses.
• Geography: We will be learning about the geography of our school and using our fieldwork skills.
• History: We will be looking at the history of ourselves and our families.  
• Art: We will be creating Autumnal art using printing techniques and painting self-portraits.
• PE: In our indoor PE sessions we will be focusing team building activities. Outdoor PE will focus on ball skills. 
• PSHE: We will be learning about friendships.
• RBV (Religion, Beliefs & Values): We will be looking at our focus question 'What does it mean to belong to a faith community'.
•  Computing: We will be working on basic computer skills and becoming familiar with an iPad.