Y1 – Latest Class Notices

Welcome to Year 1!

Notices

Reading for Pleasure books

Thank you to everyone who has been able to donate to our reading for pleasure book library.

If you can donate a new Reading Pleasure book from our list below, it would be greatly appreciated. There are lots of new books added to the list for this year and as you can see we do not have many of these books.

Little Wandle Reading Books

On Friday 26th September, we have sent home reading books with the children who had their wallets in school. Please make sure that your child’s reading wallet with reading record and book is returned to school on Thursday and we will send home on Friday. 

If you would like your child to borrow a hard copy, we ask for a £8 deposit to be paid on MCAS. This includes £1 for a zippy wallet to protect the books, with the remaining £7 held to cover any lost or damaged books. Any leftover balance will be refunded when your child completes the Little Wandle program.

Celebrations

In Year 1, we still enjoy teaching the children about important cultural and religious celebrations, particularly when they are significant to families in our class. In the past, we’ve really valued having parents come in to share their knowledge and experiences of special festivals and celebrations. If there are any of these that you are celebrating at home, it would be great if you could come in a share some information around this with your class. Please speak with your class teacher, if this is something you would like to do.

 

 

Diary Dates

Tuesday 18th November: Trip to Gunnersbury Museum for Toys and Games workshop

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Y1 – Learning this week

MondayBook Bags in schoolAll children to bring in their book bags with their library and sharing book inside.
TuesdayBook Bags sent home

Outdoor PE (Cherries and Pears)

Children need to come to school in a full Belmont PE kit that is labelled.
Wednesday
ThursdayReturn Little Wandle Reading books

 

FridayReading books home

Kitchen Garden or Forest School (half termly swap)

Indoor PE (Cherries and Pears)

Bring appropriate wet weather coat and wellington boots depending on weather

Children need to come to school in a full Belmont PE kit that is labelled.

 

Learning this week
MathsComparing groups by matching and understanding fewer, more and the same when comparing amounts
EnglishExploring our new key text, The Gruffalo and understanding how to use speech bubbles to show when a character is talking.

Autumn Topic 

Our topic this term is called ‘The Toy Trail’. In Geography, we will be learning about our local area and exploring different maps. In History, we will be learning about toys and games from our past.

Learning Trees

Y1 Autumn Learning Tree

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Y1 – Homework/ Home Learning

Spellings
magnetcartoonrabbitspray
popcornproudtoysay
allofonehere

In Phonics, we have started to learn alternative graphemes (written sound) for digraphs learnt. Please practise reading and writing these in words above.

Sentence dictation

For further spelling practise, dictate these sentences to your child. Remind them to use a capital letter and finger spaces.

I can see the farmyard from my bedroom.
The kitten is playing with the rabbit.
I enjoy eating a heap of peas.
The forest has a track that leads to a train.
My Maths Homework
WB 29/9/251. Activity: Counting to 10 using objects, numerals and words.
WB 6/10/252. Representing numbers using manipulatives, numerals and words, counting on, and finding 1 more, within 10
WB 13/10/253. Counting backwards from 10
WB 20/10/254. Place Value within 10 (Counting back, finding 1 less, and comparing groups of objects by matching, within 10)
Set on 24/10/255. Place Value within 10 (Comparing numbers within 10 using the vocabulary “fewer”, “more”, the “same”, “less than”, “greater than” and “equal to” and the symbols <, > and = )

 

Phonics screening check information for parents

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Yr 1 – Workshop Information

Home School Partnership

Thank you to everyone who attended our Home School Partnership Evening. Please find a copy of the presentation below.

Home School Partnership 2025

 

Phonics Workshop

All information from the Phonics Workshop can be found on Google Classroom. Please follow the link below.

https://classroom.google.com/c/NzgwNjcyOTA3MDQ1/m/ODE1NjM1NjA3Mjk3/details

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Y1 – Reading

Phonics/Reading Books (eCollins) & Reading for Pleasure (Sharing Books)  

Daily Little Wandle phonics lessons continue in Year 1. In a similar way to Reception, phonics will be taught in groups by all Year 1 staff. Three times a week the children also read with an adult as part of a smaller group. These reading groups work on decoding, prosody and comprehension. At the end of every week, we will allocate this eBook to your child on the Collins website. New logins will be shared in your child’s reading record once they are ready. As in Reception, we will send physical books home if parents have signed the agreement to do so. Please return these books on a Thursday and they will be sent home on a Friday.

In addition to this, every Monday (starting 15th September) your child will choose a sharing book and a library book. Please make sure book bags are in school on a Monday and we will return on a Tuesday. These books are recommended Year 1 texts – both fiction and non-fiction These are not designed to be at the child’s reading ability but please enjoy these together. They are labelled with a shiny Year 1 sticker. These books are returned and allocated every Monday.

We would like library and sharing books in every Monday. There is no need to bring these books on other days.

 

Reading for Pleasure

As part of our continued focus on reading in school, we would like to continue the lending library of books within each class. This will enable the children to foster a passion and love of reading at Belmont and ensure that they have access to high quality texts.
Please find links to the book list that has a variety of books that we would love to have in class.  Once a book has been donated to the class we will add a tick to show we now have it.  Please check the list to ensure that the book that you would like to donate is one that we don’t already have.
These books will be stamped to show who has generously donated them and shared with all the class. The books come from the Recommended Books for Year 1 List which can be found below.

Cherries List

Pears List

Click on the document below for some tips of reading with your children in Year 1.

Reading with your child KS1

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Y1 – Teacher & Class Information

Teachers:
Cherries – Miss Skinner
Pears– Miss Percival

Support Staff:
Cherries –  Ms Jay
Pears – Mrs Shrayev and Ms Jo

Class Reps

Our class reps are:

Cherries: TBC

Pears: TBC

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