Welcome to Belle Vue's Year 1 Page!
Welcome to Year 1! We are so excited to get to know you this term and make lots of lovely memories. 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 and RSE Lead
Miss Smith
1S Teacher
Miss Fennell
Year 1 Teaching Assistant
Important messages
PE
1W -
1S -
Please make sure children have PE kits 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 and book to share books into school to be changed 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 1
Wednesday 3rd September - First day of term for children
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: As we begin 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. To support our writing, we will have daily handwriting lessons to learn correct formation of lower case letters. 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 1, children will be learning about our senses. They will explore which body part is responsible for each of our senses and why they are important.
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).
Geography:
In Autumn 1, children will learn about spatial sense. They will discover what makes a good map, covering compass points, aerial views and how to use locational language.
Art:
In Autumn 1, children will be learning about colour. They will explore primary colours, secondary colours, warm/cool colours and tints/shades. We will look at different artists including David Hockney and Monet.
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.
History
In Autumn 2, children will be 'discovering history'. They will learn about past and present, family trees, sources, archaeology and our local history.
RE
In Autumn 1, children will be learning what religion is. They will consider what it means to believe and explore their special places, books and people.
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
Computing
In Autumn 1, children will learn about online safety and how to use Purple Mash.
In Autumn 2, children will 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.
