Welcome to the Year 1 Class Page! We are a fantastic class of 30 children who are taught by Miss Roberts and are very lucky to be supported by Mrs Charles.

We are really enjoying all of our topics and challenges in Year One! You'll be able to see lots of things we do on Twitter and on this web page so keep checking.

Queen Jubilee class photo!

English Parent meeting slides

Maths Parents Meeting

Summer 1

Queen’s Jubilee celebrations - Year One have had lots of fun celebrating the Queen being on the throne for 70 years!!

Year One are loving their Science topic learning all about Plants. Check out some of our amazing learning. We love observing and exploring!

Flowers for Mary

In Geography this half term Year One are enjoying learning all about ‘Where Do We Live’. They are excited to go on their trip to Horsforth Park exploring our local area.

World Book Day 2022! Year One loved dressing up and taking part in all of our exciting activities!

A lovely trip to Horsforth Library!

Spring 1 - Gymnastics fun!

Spring 1 - Paper art! Year One loved creating sculptures out of a range of different papers. They were very creative and worked extremely hard. Well done everyone!

It’s the most wonderful time of year!!!!

KS1 did an amazing job with their Christmas Nativity! We are so proud of all the children.

Take a look at some of the fun activities we have been up to in Autumn 1!

Harlow Carr

Year One enjoyed their school trip to Harlow Carr where we did a Signs of the Seasons workshop. They walked around the beautiful grounds and found many signs. They noticed that the leaves were changing colour and falling off the trees. They noticed that the weather was starting to feel colder and the mornings and nights were getting darker. The children collected leaves and also seeds from around the gardens and thought about the type of animals they might see in Autumn.

During the month of October Year One enjoyed taking part in African Dancing and learning about Maya Angelou.

Year One enjoyed dressing up as Victorians for the 125th school birthday. It was lovely to hear from lots of past pupils and learning all about what St Mary’s was like in the past.

A great start to the day, Year One enjoyed getting out in the fresh air and learning how to play golf. They are also loving the Olympic after school club lots of them are attending.

Year One Parent Writing Meeting - Powerpoint

Handwriting

Click Here - for animations to show the direction of the pencil when forming cursive letters.

Click here - for a worksheet to help your child with capital letter formation.

Click here - for this half terms tricky words focus (phase 3)

Click here - for days of the week handwriting practice.

Maths

Here you can find links to number and space, shape and measure sheets / games to support your child at home.

Numbots

Hit the Button

Find the missing number

Number formation

Number bonds to 10

2D and 3D Shapes

Counting Songs Links

Count to 100

Numberblocks

Phonics Links

Towards the end of Year One the children will sit a phonics screening check. The phonics screening check is a quick and easy check of your child’s phonics knowledge. It helps the school confirm whether your child has made the expected progress. The check consists of a list of 40 words, half real words and half nonsense words, the nonsense words will be shown to your child with a picture of an alien. Nonsense words are important to include as they can’t be read using their vocabulary or from memory; they have to use their decoding skills. This is a fair way to assess all children’s ability to decode.

Phonics screen check example - click here

Year 1 Common exception words and tricky words - click here

A lovely trip to Horsforth Museum

Here is a collection of webpage links to songs and activities to help your child with their phonics. On the home learning page I have linked the phonics sheets for this half term which we do each week in class.

Phase 2 sound mat

Phase 3 sound mat

Alpha Blocks

Phoneme Pronunciation