Year 1 2025-2026
Welcome to Year 1
Mrs Rowley - 1R
Miss James (M,T) and Mrs Hodgson (W,Th, F) - 1JH
Important Information
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 or concerns.
Books
1R and 1JH's reading books will be changed every Monday. Please ensure they are in their bag on Monday with their yellow reading record.
Children will bring home a library book, 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 and Days (Spring 1)
1JH
Tuesday with Miss James
Friday with Mrs Hodgson
1R
Monday and Thursday with Mrs Rowley
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.
Please no logos or branded items. Their PE kit is their school uniform.
PHONICS
Your child will learn phonics daily in the classroom and we want you to continue to practise their phonics learning at home.
Here are some easy online resources to play at home with your child.
Most of the games can be accessed on a phone, tablet or computer and each website has a few free options without having to subscribe.
If given the option, focus on phase 3 and 5 (digraphs, trigraphs and split digraphs).
Monster Phonics handwriting formation: https://youtu.be/_6h3lBZcY80
Pure Sounds: https://youtu.be/oJGDN5p-Kvg
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zdt6rmn/articles/zncgvk7 - move across the map to a spelling game that will help your child build words using their phonics.
Alphablocks and other phonics videos are another great way to consonlidate and repeat learning.
Thank you to those parents who come to our recent phonics evening; we hope you found it useful. Here are the PowerPoint slides. If you have any questions about how to support your child with phonics, please do not hesitate to contact their class teacher.
Phonics Screening Check Support
The Phonics Screening Check commences the week after our half term in May/June.
Your child will be asked to read 40 words with their teacher. Half of the words are real and half of the words are nonsense/fake words made from sounds they have been learning in class.
We encourage the children to sound out (segment) every word and then blend the sounds together to say the word.
For example:
train = t-r-ai-n - train
or a fake word
phoap = ph-oa-p - phoap
They will still get the word correct if they sound it out before blending it.
Sounds you can focus on are:
ar (car)
ur, ir, er (fur girl, hammer)
ew, ue (screw, glue)
ou, ow (out, cow)
au, aw, (haunt, saw)
ie (pie, fries)
ure, ear (pure, tear)
a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e (split digraphs - words usually ending in an e)
Here is a an example of the phonics screening check.
The pass rate is usually around 32/40 but this can change year on year.
Please access the links above this message for support, play the games we have been sending home and continue to read at home with your child over the two week break!
If you have any questions or need further support please approach your class teacher.
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 where we live and our presence on a map (our house, our street, our town, our country)
- History: We will be looking at the history of ourselves and stages of human life.
- Art: We will be creating Autumnal art using printing techniques and painting self-portraits.
- PE: In our indoor PE sessions we will be focusing the fundamentals of movement and team building games. 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.
What are we learning in Autumn 2?
- English: We will continue to focus on consolidating core writing skills - capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. Our books for this half term will be ‘Lost in the Toy Museum’ and ‘Traction Man’.
- 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 will continue our work on addition and subtraction within 10. We will also do work on 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 seasonal changes and materials.
- Geography: We will continue to learn about where we live and our presence on a map (our house, our street, our town, our country)
- History: We will be looking at the history of toys.
- Art: We will be studying Pop Art and the artist Andy Warhol.
- PE: In our indoor session we will focus on gymnastic skills. Outdoor PE will focus on sending and receiving.
- PSHE: We will be learning about our feelings and emotions and focusing on jealousy. We will also be looking at why it is important to wash our hands.
- RBV (Religion, Beliefs & Values): We will be thinking about ‘What makes some places sacred?’
- Computing: Using Text based programs to process and format text and images.
What are we learning in Spring 1?
Our topic this half term is - Hooray for the Heatons!
English: We continue to focus on consolidating core writing skills - capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
We will be reading ' The Jolly Postman' and using this text to help us write a number of shorter pieces such as a postcard, a thank you card and an invitation. We will sending our own letters home for parents to read!
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. Please see the home work which is sent home each week with the words we have been learning.
Maths: This half term we will start with addition and subtraction unit and moving onto place value up to 20 . 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 winter weather.
Geography: We will be learning about our Local Area - The Heatons! We will be looking at human and physical features of the area and how towns and the country side are different. We encourage you to use Google Maps at home to look at the local area.
Art: In Art we are studying different artists that use mixed media.
PSHE: We will be learning about our local community, how we can look after it and how to stay safe (road safety).
RBV (Religion, Beliefs & Values): We will be learning about at what makes some places sacred.
Forest School - We will be learning team work skills and using these to make dens and play games. We will also be toasting marshmallows towards the end of the half term!
The school value we are focusing on this half term is HAPPINESS :)
Encourage to child to discuss what makes them happy, what happiness looks like, how we can make the people around us happy and what we can do if we are not feeling happy ourselves.
What are we learning in Summer 1?
Our topic is Funky Farmers!
This term we will be visiting Smithhill's Farm to help us learn more about the different animals they have there.
- English - We continue to focus on consolidating core writing skills - capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. We will be looking at writing non-fiction this half term including animal fact files and a recount of our farm trip. We will be looking at the book 'Coming to England' in Geography as well as the family favourite "The Scarecrow's Wedding"!
- Phonics: We are following the Monster Phonics scheme through daily Phonics lessons. We have learned all our sounds in Year 1 so we will be revsiiting the sounds we have learned in preparation for the Phonics Screening Check.
- Maths - This half term we will be learning about:
- Multiplication and Division: Counting in 2s, 10s and 5s. Recognising and adding equal groups. Making arrays. Making doubles. Making equal groups.
- Fractions: Recognising and finding a half of an object/shape. Recognising and finding half of a quantity. Recognising and finding a quarter of an object/shape. Recognising and finding a quarter of a quantity.
Geography - We will be comparing Stockport (England) to Point-a-Pierre (Trinidad).
Art - We will be looking at the patterns of animal fur, scales and skin and using this in our Artwork.
Science - We are learning about categorising animals into their groups (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish) and learning about their diets (herbivore, omnivore, carnivore).
RBV - Who is a Christian and what do they believe?
PSHE - Online Safety and Accidents
Previous Year Group Photos