Y1 – Latest Class Notices

Welcome to Year 1!

Notices

Year 1 Trip to Chiswick House

As part of our science learning around ‘Plants’, we will be visiting Chiswick House on Tuesday 16th June. Please look out for more information.

Phonics Screening Check: information for parents

Phonics_screening_check_information_for_parents 2026

On Google Classroom, there are some resources to help support your child with reading real and alien words. Making sure they are spotting spilt digraphs and alternative sounds. Please practise over the half term.

Request for glue sticks!

As the children take part in a range of cutting and creative activities throughout the year, we are currently running low on glue sticks. If you are able to donate a glue stick or two to help replenish our class supplies, it would be greatly appreciated. 

Thank you for your support!

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.

Key dates

Tuesday 16th June: Year 1 Trip to Chiswick House

Wednesday 17th June: Sports Day

Wednesday 1st July @ 2pm: Year 1 Presentation to Parents

Thursday 2nd July @ 9.30am: Year 1 Presentation to Parents

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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
MathsMultiplication and Division

  • Counting in 5s
  • Counting in 10s
  • Recognising equal groups
English
  • Using the word ‘and’ to join ideas or sentences together.
  • Writing questions to ask David Attenborough
  • Writing a letter to David Attenborough to ask questions from previous lesson

PSHE: Summer Term

Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)Summer 1: Relationships
Taught Knowledge:

  • Know that everyone’s family is different
  • Know that families are founded on belonging, love and care
  • Know that physical contact can be used as a greeting
  • Know how to make a friend
  • Know who to ask for help in the school community
  • Know that there are lots of different types of families
  • Know the characteristics of healthy and safe friends
  • Know about the different people in the school community and how they help
If you have any questions, please contact your child’s class teacher.

Learning Trees

Y1 Autumn Learning Tree

Y1 Spring Learning Tree

Y1 Summer Learning Tree

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.

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Y1 – Homework/ Home Learning

Please see the table below for details of the home learning tasks.

Spellings

Please remember that there are no spelling tests in Year 1. These activities are designed to build confidence and familiarity with reading and writing words. As stated by Little Wandle, repeated practice of spelling helps children move their new learning into their long-term memory. In Year 1 especially, it is important to try to find time to practise and embed spelling outside of the phonics lessons.

Have a go with reading these words. You could put them on post it notes around the house and encourage your child to recognise the alternative grapheme and then read the word.

Graphemes

iaowu

Words

mindlatershowmusic
childbakinggrowunit

Tricky Words

twoeyethoughtthrough

Additional activity: sentence dictation

To help children apply their phonic learning to their writing, it helps to put the sentence into context. Here are some sentences you can practise writing.

  • I yawn all the way through breakfast.
  • I thought that girl had a bird on her cloak.
  • I am proud that I found that feather.
  • We enjoy mucking about in the water.

Common Exception Words

This term, we are practising reading and writing Common Exception Words. Please support your child by helping them practise reading and writing these words. Once confident, they can try using the words in a sentence.

Click here to find words: T-L-5155-Year-1-Common-Exception-Words_ver_4

For your understanding, Common Exception Words don’t follow the normal rules, so you can’t always sound them out perfectly. You have to learn them by looking at them again and again, like learning a secret code! We call them exception words because they are the exception to the rule!

MathsPlease check Google Classroom every Monday afternoon for details of the maths homework task that has been set.
Creative Home LearningThe creative home learning for Summer Term has been uploaded onto Google Classroom. This is due in WB 6.7.26 via Google Classroom. See Google Classroom for more details.

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

Year One:

Class teachers: Miss Fiona Skinner and Miss Tara Percival
Teaching Assistants: Ms Jayanthi Murugan, Mrs Mera Shrayev and Mrs Jo Roberts

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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