Welcome to Year 1!

The children have settled into Year 1 and are learning the new rules and routines.

Year 1 2026-27

We will discuss all of the following information at the Home School Partnership Evening on Wednesday 24^th September – so this is just a heads-up to share what’s going on until then.

Drop-off information

Class teachers will collect their classes from the playground at 8:55 AM. When the bell rings, please guide your child to their class sign near the blue gate. To support a smooth transition into school, encourage your child to join their class line and walk in independently with their peers.

• Please note: From Monday 14th September Children in Years 1 will join the rest of the school and enter through the first stairwell, nearest to the main playground gate anytime between 8.45-8.55am. This is the same entrance they will already be familiar using when it has been raining. Teachers will run through this with children in the coming week so that they are clear and settled before we go live on Monday 14th.

Pick up information

At the end of the day, Year 1 children can be collected from the area near the climbing frame at the far end of the playground. Please wait for the teacher to dismiss your child, as they have been asked to stay with their class until called.

Our PE lessons take place on Tuesdays and Fridays. On these days, children should come to school wearing their PE kit and remain in it for the duration of the day.

Calendar/Key dates

School Calendar

Thursday 24th September – Home School Partnership evening

Tuesday 6th October  afternoon 1pm – Local walk around Chiswick

Thursday 8th October  – Phonics parent meeting

Monday 9th November  – Trip to Gunnersbury park museum – (More information to be sent out soon)

 

Monday
Tuesday	Indoor PE (Cherries and Pears)	Children need to come to school in a full Belmont PE kit that is labelled.
Wednesday	Bring Book bags to  school ready to return the following: Little Wandle books Library books Reading for Pleasure books
Thursday	Book bags will be sent home with new reading for pleasure, Library books and Little wandle books (Assigned virtually/Physical bbook)
Friday	Kitchen Garden or Forest School (half termly swap) Outddoor 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
Maths	Place value to 10 – Sorting objects, counting objects, Count from larger group, representing objects, counting on from any number
English	Spag – CVC words, What makes a happy classroom, learning our class rules

PSHE: Autumn Term

Autumn 1 – Being in my world	Autumn 2 – Celebrating differences
Taught Knowledge: Help others to feel welcome Try to make our school community a better place Think about everyone’s right to learn Care about other people’s feelings Work well with others Follow class expectations	Taught Knowledge: Accept that everyone is different Include others when working and playing Know how to help if someone is being bullied Try to problem solve Use kind words Know how to give and receive compliments
Key Vocabulary:  Please note vocabulary from previous years will be consolidated.
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.

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

Spellings	This will be updated every Wednesday  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 and sounds in preparation for your phonics lessons beginning on 14th September. 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 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. The toads feel so cool. The boot on my right foot is too hard. I can see foxes in the car lights. We can go down to the town on the bus. 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!
Maths	Please check Google Classroom every Wednesday afternoon for details of the maths homework  – This will be set from the 16.9.26

Phonics screening check information for parents

Home School Partnership

Please wait for the update

 

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

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 Wednesday and they will be sent home on a Thursday.

In addition to this, every Thursday (starting 15^th September) your child will choose a sharing book and a library book. Please make sure book bags are in school on a Wednesday and we will return on a Thursday. 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 Wednesday.

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

 

Reading for Pleasure

In addition to our reading expectations for Year 1, we also encourage reading for pleasure. As part of our focus on reading in school, we would like to develop 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 you have donated a book, please tick on the spreadsheet for your child’s class 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 – Spreadsheet will be uploaded soon 

Pears List – Spreadsheet will be uploaded soon 

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

Reading with your child KS1

Year One:

Class teachers: Mrs Orooj Khalil, Mr Guy (Friday) and Miss Ola Golosz
Teaching Assistants: Ms Maria, Mrs Mera Shrayev and Mrs Jo Roberts

Teachers:
Cherries

Mrs Khalil

Mr Guy (Friday only)

Pears

Miss Golosz

Support Staff:

Cherries –  Ms Maria
Pears – Ms Jo

Mrs Shrayev

Class Reps

Our class reps are:

Cherries: TBC

Pears: TBC