Welcome to Year 1!

We’re delighted to welcome your children into Year 1. The children have settled in brilliantly and are already exploring all the new resources and equipment available in our outdoor areas during ‘Discovery Time’.

Key Notices

• PE Days: Our PE sessions will take place every Tuesday and Friday. Please send your child to school in their PE kit, including black trainers, on these days.
• Coats: As the weather can be unpredictable, make sure your child brings a coat to school every day.
• Local Area Photographs: To support our topic work, we’d love photographs of your child enjoying the local area. This could be at the park, by Earlswood Lakes, outside your home, or visiting other local attractions. Please email photos to the school office or hand them to your class teacher.
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Upcoming Event: Local Area Walk

We’re excited to take Year 1 on a Local Area Walk on Wednesday 24th September. This will help the children spot human and physical features around us and kick off our DT learning on freestanding structures. We’ll finish our walk with a visit to Ifold Road park!

If you’re able to help on the day, please let your class teacher know. More details will follow soon—thank you in advance for your support.

Our Learning This Week

Discovery Learning

Our topic this term is ‘Our Local Area’. This week, we’ll move our learning outside the classroom to explore the Infant School site. The children will take a walk around the school and practise designing simple maps.

Writing

In Drawing Club, we’ll be writing simple sentences inspired by Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. We’ll be practising using finger spaces and making sure we spell tricky words correctly.

Handwriting

We’re focusing on the ‘curly caterpillar letters’—c, a, d, and g. Children will work in small groups with an adult to practise correct letter formation, writing on the line, and starting in the right place.

Maths

This week, we’ll consolidate our previous learning by sorting and counting objects accurately.

We look forward to seeing you next week!

The Year 1 Team