Welcome to Year 1! 

In Year 1, the class teacher is Mr Bunker. 

If you have any questions, please come and speak to Mr Bunker. If he is not around at the beginning and end of the day, you can contact the school office and request an appointment. 

Keep referring back to this page for regular updates about the children's learning.

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Spellings - Week Beginning 13/5/26

On Fridays the children will be tested on some of these spellings so please practice at home. There is more than one word for each sound. Please practice both of them at home. A random word will be picked from each sound and two tricky words to test their understanding of these sounds and spellings.

Sounds of the week: ea, ir, ou, oy

Potential Words:

• bread
• thread
• bird
• girl
• sound
• out
• joy
• annoy

Tricky words: any, many, who, whole

Maths - Fractions

In our current maths topic, the children will be exploring fractions. They will learn how they are equal parts that make up a whole. They will discover that a half is one of two equal parts and a quarter is one of four equal parts. The children will identify, recognise and find these fractions in numbers and shapes.

I have attached below version A of their upcoming assessments. The questions have different answers to version B that we use in school. There questions and practical activities for you to try with your child at home and support them in their maths learning.

English - Whiffy Wilson

In our writing, the children are making a poster about Year 1. This will include everything that they have learnt so far in all subjects and where everything is in the classroom. This will then be shared with the current year R class to tell them what to expect when they become year 1.

We noticed how in the story the author chose to use contractions such as didn't and wouldn't. We will practice creating these and writing them into a sentence. The children will also consider how to structure a poster so that they are easy to read and understand.

Geography - Bright Lights, Big City

In geography, we will be learning about London. Together we will investigate how big the city is, how many people live there, why it is so busy and what happened in 1666?

Science - Plant Parts

This term we will be exploring different types of plants, plant parts and the importance of them. We will investigate how flowers grow and what they need to survive. At the end of the topic, the children will observe how small changes happen over a long period of time.

We have now started to grow some plants of our own in the classroom. Together we scooped the soil, sowed the seeds and watered the plants. Over time we will observe the changes and potentially collect the vegetables they grow.