Year 1
Week Beginning 12th January 2026
Happy New Year! The children have come back to school refreshed and ready to learn. They have had a brilliant week and have enjoyed starting the new project 'Explorers Assemble'. The project overview and home learning can be found at the bottom of this page.
This term, we have a Phonics Workshop for parents and this will be on 21st January at 2pm. This will be an opportunity to understand strategies and techniques to support your children at home. Please see the Parent Mail that was recently sent out.
English - Next week, the children will be using the story map they have created for Paddington and imitating the story as part of the talk for writing process.
Phonics - The new sound next week is oe and ow saying oa. The parent information sheet can be found below:
Maths - The children will be using addition and subtraction to solve problems. They will work practically and use pictorial models to support their learning.
Home Learning:
My Maths, Numbots and Twinkl Phonics App log ins are stuck into the front of your child's Reading Record. Please speak to your child's teacher if you need any support with any of these platforms.
Additional help with reading/phonics:
If you are wondering how you can provide general support for your child at home, our advice is to hear them read as often as possible. Please do not worry if your child brings home the same book from time to time- this is to gain confidence and fluency before moving onto different sounds in other books.
We also have an excellent link to some high quality texts that you may want to consider when choosing children’s books to read or buy!
Additional Maths:
By the end of Year 1, children are expected to:
- count forwards and backwards in ones to 100
- be able to count in 2s, 5s and 10s
- find one more and one less than a given number up to 100
- recognise the value of all coins
- know number bonds (numbers that add together) to total 10 and 20.
Messages:
It is really important to put children’s names in all their clothes, on packed lunch boxes, water bottles, coats etc- otherwise they do not go home with the correct child. We already have some unclaimed and unnamed items from this week. If you could all check that all items are named, we would really appreciate it.
Please could water bottles be placed into a plastic bag in their school bag to protect school reading books. All water bottles must only contain water and NOT squash please.
Please note, our fruit at school is delivered on a Monday, but sometimes later in the day. Please could you provide your child with a snack on a Monday to avoid them getting hungry if our fruit has not been delivered.
Key Information and Dates:
Please wear PE kits on a Thursday.
Thank you for your continued support.
Have a great weekend!
Mr Parsons and Mrs Stoodley