Welcome to Belle Vue's Year 1 Page!
Welcome to Year 1! We are so excited to continue making lots of lovely memories together this term. We have some really exciting learning opportunities and experiences coming up this term! As always if you would like to discuss anything about your child’s learning journey then please do not hesitate to speak with either Miss Watson or Miss Smith after school or you can arrange a phone call or meeting via the school office or email info@belle-vue.dudley.sch.uk
Miss Watson
1W Teacher
PSHE / RSE Lead
Miss Smith
1S Teacher
Miss Fennell
Year 1 Teaching Assistant
Important messages
PE
1W - Tuesday and Friday
1S - Tuesday and Wednesday
Please make sure children have the correct PE kit in school and come to school with plasters already over earrings or earrings taken out.
Reading books changed
Friday for both classes
Please make sure children bring both monster phonics books and book to share books into school to be changed, as we can not sent new books home unless old ones are returned.
Safety
Please can we ask that parents not come into the cloakroom for morning drop off and make sure that the door way is kept clear for children to come into school safely.
At the end of the day when picking up please can you wait on the year 1/2 playground not at the top of the steps so that we can see each adult clearly before letting the children go.
Thank you for your continued support!
Dates for your diary - Autumn Term 2
Friday 7th November
Belle Vue Fireworks, Bonfire and Food Festival
Tuesday 11th November
Year 1 SEND Support Plan parent meetings
Tuesday 11th November
Odd Socks Day (Anti-Bullying awareness week) – no donations required
Friday 14th November
Children in Need (MUFTI) - donation
WC Monday 17th November
DT Week
Monday 1st - Thursday 4th December
Assessment Week
Friday 5th December
INSET Day
Saturday 6th December
School Choir Performance at Wordsley Christmas Light Switch On
Wednesday 10th December
Christmas Lunch and Christmas Jumper day
Monday 15th December
KS1 Christmas Show (AM and PM performance)
Thursday 18th December
Pantomime (Details to follow)
Friday 19th December
Last Day of Term – normal finish times
Monday 22rd December-Friday 2nd January
Christmas Break
Phonics Information for parents / carers
Our Curriculum
What will Year 1 be learning about this term?
Phonics and Reading: Children will be participating in various elements of reading within the year 1 curriculum. They will have daily phonics lessons to support their decoding and blending skills. To promote fluency, expression and comprehension children will have 3 adult led reading sessions with their weekly monster phonics book. They will also have 2 lessons a week looking closely at a variety of book genres. We also enjoy reading for pleasure throughout the day, including a variety of class novels.
Writing: Throughout Autumn term, children will build on their knowledge of how we construct an accurate sentence. The main focus will be on using a capital letter, full stop and finger spaces. We will also be learning about verbs, nouns, subjects and objects within sentences. To support our writing, we will have daily handwriting lessons to learn correct letter formation. We build spelling knowledge by applying our taught sounds and spelling rules in phonics and putting these into words and sentences. We will be mostly working on writing dictated sentences, but also ensuring we engage in lots of independent opportunities to write across the curriculum.
Maths: During the Autumn term, children will secure their knowledge of numbers to 10. This includes looking at place value, addition and subtraction. We will also learn about 2D and 3D shapes.
Science:
In Autumn 2, children will learn about animals, including humans. They will learn about different types of animals, what animals need to survive and how we can group animals (herbivores, carnivores and omnivores).
History
In Autumn 2, children will be 'discovering history'. They will learn about past and present, family trees, sources, archaeology and our local history.
Art:
In Autumn 2, children will be learning about line. They will discover how different artists use line for purpose and effect, including Miro and Klee.
Geography:
In Autumn 1, children learnt about spatial sense. They discovered what makes a good map, covering compass points, aerial views and how to use locational language.
RE
In Autumn 2, children will be introduced to Christianity. They will learn about Jesus, the Bible, churches and Christian festivals.
PSHE
Throughout the Autumn term, children will be learning about relationships. This will cover families and friendships, safe relationships and respecting ourselves and others.
PE
In Autumn 2, children will be doing gymnastics in PE.
Computing
In Autumn term, children will learn about online safety and how to use Purple Mash. Children will also learn about grouping and sorting.
Music
Throughout the Autumn term, children will learn about the 'Musical Heartbeat'. They will explore different styles of music, singing and playing a variety of music.
How can you help at home?
Homework
In Year One, children should be reading to an adult a minimum of 3 times a week. We will be sending home a Monster phonics book (matched to children's phonics level) and a book to share (for you to read to your child). These will be swapped each week.
We will be learning the Year 1 High Frequency Words and Common exception words so learning these at home as well will be a huge advantage.
We will also send home an activity sheet for phonics that will focus on what they have learnt that week. Please can these be completed in pencil and handed in to the class teacher when completed.
Practising number and letter formation on letterjoin (log on code below) https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/index.html
Regular visits to numbots (passwords can be retrieved from teachers) https://play.numbots.com/?#/account/school-login/3596 to increase fluency in maths.
Websites such as Topmarks and Phonics Play are excellent free ways for your child to embed skills at home.
Year 1 Common Exception Words - Read and Spell
100 High Frequency Words
