Welcome to Year 1!

We would like to warmly welcome your child into Year 1. We are very excited to support them as they take the next step in their learning journey at Red Hill Primary School and look forward to a year filled with curiosity, confidence and new discoveries!

1R Miss Rana (Mrs Wood)

1D Mrs Draper (Mrs Heppleston & Miss Robotham)

 1T Miss Teck (Miss Gilbert)

Miss Batchelor works with individual children and small groups. 

Curriculum

At Red Hill, we follow the CUSP curriculum for reading, writing, spelling, history, geography, art, DT and science. For RE and PSHE we follow the Jigsaw curriculum. Computing lessons follow the National Centre for Computing Education. Click here to access our curriculum overview 

The Year 1 Curriculum Meeting Slides contain all the information shared at our parent and carer year group curriculum meetings at the start of the academic year. 

English

Our key texts this half term are Dot by Peter H. Reynolds, Ish by Peter H. Reynolds, Beegu by Alexis Deacon and Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.  We will start the year by practicing speaking in full sentences and move onto writing them down using a space between each word.  We will learn about the skills of prediction and inference while reading our stories and how to summarise and describe.  We will also learn the difference between an author and an illustrator as well as exploring poetry and writing a setting description.

Maths

Maths this half term will be learning all about number and exploring place value, addition and subtraction up to 10.  We will be using part whole models and tens frames to show different ways of representing number and number lines to explore how quantities increase and decrease. Eventually, we will be using the same skills learnt in the Autumn term but using numbers up to 100. 

Supporting your child with their learning at home

Maths - A short maths challenge linking to the week’s learning. Each child is given a login for NumBots. It is an online game designed to help children develop their fluency in Maths. NumBots is personally designed for each child and we recommend children access this at home 3x a week for 10 minutes at a time.

Phonics - Children will have phonics sent home each week linking to what we are learning in class.

Reading - Reading should be completed a minimum of 3x a week, but ideally for 10 minutes each evening. This can be completed with an adult, or children can choose to read independently. All reading sessions need to be recorded in their reading records, which should be brought into school daily. The children's reading books need to be handed in on a Wednesday for them to receive a new one to take home on the Friday.

Please click here for a recommended reading list for Year 1.

PE
1R – Monday and Thursday

1T – Monday and Thursday

1D – Monday and Friday

PE kits (as outlined in the uniform letter):

• Plain t-shirt in house colour (red, blue, green, yellow) P.E. t-shirt with the embroidered badge can still be worn
• Navy shorts/skort, tracksuit bottoms or leggings/cycling shorts
• Trainers or plimsolls
• Navy sweatshirt or hoodie (iron on badge can be applied but not necessary.

No football kits to worn to school. If children have a club after school, they need to bring this into school in a bag to change into before or after the club.