Welcome to Year 1 - Elm

Our teacher is Mrs Turner our teaching assistant is Mrs Zaman and our CSW is Mrs Baker.
There are 30 children in our class – 15 boys and 15 girls

Remote Learning

If you are isolating with Covid and well, you are still expected to complete your learning. Click on the star icon below to see the weekly learning planners and the work set for each day.

Home School Agreement

Parents Introduction to Year 1

School Codes

• Be safe and happy
• Be respectful
• Learn more

British Values

As part of our British Values in Year 1, we will be learning about democracy by encouraging the children to make decisions together.  One of the ways we will be doing this is by holding class votes. Over the year we will hold class votes to select our School Council representatives, Sports Council representatives and Behaviour Ambassadors for each half term.

Showing mutual respect and tolerance of one another are part of the values underpinned in Year 1. We understand how important it is to respect and value the feelings and views of others and celebrate ways in which we are different and the same. Our topic 'Ourselves' will help us to learn more about this, as well as taking pride in who we are and ways in which we treat others. Children will be encouraged as part of their self confidence and self awareness to feel confident to express their needs and opinions.

In Year 1, children are taught the importance of having rules and routines in place within the school and classroom. We use our rules to help us make good choices and think about our actions, keeping our school a safe and happy place! Each week our Behaviour Ambassador will choose a child from the class to be awarded for their good behaviour! 

Job Roles in 1 Elm

Behaviour Ambassador - Sehar (Sum i)

Digital Leaders - Raheema & Junayd

School Council - Maikls and Ffion

Sports Council - Maryam & Batu

ECO Warrior - Abdullah & Juwayriya

Class Awards

Each week, children are selected for certificates based on their learning and behaviour. This week our awards go to...

Presentation of the Week

Maryam

Ahmed Ali

Well done-fantastic work! 

Creative Curriculum Overview

Our topics enable us to develop and apply knowledge and skills in different areas of the curriculum, such as history, geography and art.  These lessons take place during the afternoon.  We do link our topic work with our English learning through stories, poems and drama.  Where possible, we go on educational visits or invite visitors in, so that we develop our learning and understanding more.

Take a look at each topic to find out what learning has taken place at school. Click on the link to look at the knowledge organiser to support your child's learning.

Science Overview

Our Science consists of 6 topics: Animals including humans, Animals, Seasonal Changes, Everyday Materials, Investigations, Plants. Where possible we link these topics to other areas of learning.

Take a look at each topic to find out what learning has taken place at school. Click on the link to look at the knowledge organiser to support your child's learning.

Reading Books

Children will have an individual reading and library book to take home weekly. Please read with your child on a daily basis and don’t forget to write a comment so that we can see that they have read. When they have read 25 books at home, they are awarded the bronze Reading Olympic certificate in assembly. The next challenge is to read 50 books for the silver award and then 100 books for the gold award.

Parent Help For Class Dojo

Use the link below to help your child to access their homework on Class Dojo:

Targets

Maths

Every half-term we have targets for maths. Here are our targets:

    Summer 2:

• I can count in 2s, 5s and 10s.

    Summer 1:

• I know number bonds to all numbers to 10.

    Spring 2:

• I know doubles and halves of numbers to 10.

    Spring 1:

• I know number bonds for each number to 20.

   Autumn Term 2:

• I know number bonds for each number to 10.

      Autumn Term 1:

• I know number bonds for each number to 5.

Writing

Reading

Reading Corner and Author of the Term

We enjoy reading in our book corner.

We will be finding out facts about them and reading some of their stories.

We have recently learnt that an Author is somebody who writes a story.

Summer 1

Summer 1 Author: Jill Murphy

Spring 2

Spring 2 Author: David McKee

Spring 1

Spring 1 Author: Nick Butterworth

Autumn 2

Autumn 2 Author: Judith Kerr

Autumn 1

Autumn 1 Author: Janet and Allan Ahlberg

English in Year 1

Non-Fiction 

Maths in Year 1

Addition

Base Ten

Number Bonds

Subtraction

Part-Whole Diagrams

Length, weight and capacity

Phonics

Articulation of Phonemes

The grapheme mats we use to help us with our writing.

Here are some phonics games you can play at home!

http://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/InteractiveResources.htm

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaurEggs_phonics/

http://www.tescoliving.com/family-and-kids/kids-zone/learn/2014/july/free-fun-phonics-games

http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/phonics/

http://www.mrthorne.com/

http://supersimplelearning.com/abcs/games/

http://kidsactivitiesblog.com/7451/free-educational-apps-for-kids

Extra Curriculum activities and online learning

Phunky foods  https://www.phunkyfoods.co.uk/whole-school-activities   Username: Victoria   Password: phunky

Commando Joe's https://youtu.be/pULugLLGaQA Watch the different videos and join in.

BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize Online learning.

Oak National Academy  https://www.thenational.academy/ Online video lessons and resources.

imoves https://imoves.com/ Create a login and enjoy PE.

Jolly Phonics https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/shop/uk-shop/phonics-resources/decodable-e-readers/jolly-phonics-decodable-e-readers/ Download the app to access free books.

Children's Mental Health Week https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/parents-and-carers/ Join in with the free activities.

Phonics Play https://phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html username: jan21 password: home Join for free.

Oxford owl https://ww.oxfordowl.co.uk Username: Elms1 Password: Victoria

Safer Internet Day https://vimeo.com/508893061/4cb72674cd

Website Links

Here are some useful websites that your child can use to help support their learning;

Phonics play https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm Username: march20 Password: home

Espresso https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/ Username: student27637 Password: victoria

Topmarks https://www.topmarks.co.uk/  

Go Noodle https://family.gonoodle.com/ 

Twinkl www.twinkl.co.uk use the code PARENTSTWINKLHELP for free access. 

The Booktrust https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/ Stories and activities for children to enjoy 

Phunky Foods  http://www.phunkyfoods.co.uk/home-learning/ No login or password required. Healthy recipes.

BBC Bitesize  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize Home Learning lessons online.

PHSE https://families.jigsawpshe.com/stuck-at-home-1/ Some nice stories to link in with Personal, Social and Emotional Development.

Geography https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks1/geography/ Lots of different quizzes for Geography.

History https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks1/history/ Lots of different quizzes for History.