Year 1 – Whitmore Park Primary School

In Year 1, we encourage and support children to develop independence and nurture a positive attitude to learning. The children will experience a range of fun and engaging learning activities.

The children have four English and Mathematics lessons a week. Children are taught Phonics and Reading Comprehension lessons five times a week, where we continue to follow the Read Write Inc programme introduced in Reception.

In the afternoons, children are taught History, Geography, Science, RE, Music, PSHE, Mastering Number and Spellings. Each week, the children are taught Computing, Art and PE by our specialist teachers.

The children read weekly with a class teacher or teaching assistant either individually or during their Read, Write Inc lessons. We encourage the children to read 5 times a week at home. Please can you log each time your child has read in their reading diary. Children have the opportunity to change their books every Friday. Class Library books can be changed once a week on Fridays. Read, Write Inc books are changed on a Friday if the previous book has been returned.

Letters to parents

Letters that have been circulated to parents are available for you to view and download here.

Punctuality

Please click here for our expectations of punctuality with arrival & collection of your child.

Teachers

Beta Class Teacher: Mrs Begum
- Beta Learning Support: Mrs Purewal & Mrs Williamson

Delta Class Teacher: Mrs Corbett (Year 1 Leader)
- Delta Learning Support: Mrs Maidment

Gamma Class Teacher: Mrs Fazmi
- Gamma Learning Support: Mrs Clements & Mrs Goldiszewicz

KS1 Additional Support:

Mrs Parnall

Carousel (PE)

During carousel, pupils will spend time doing Art, PE and Computing. 1 Beta and 1 Delta have PE lessons on Mondays and Fridays and 1 Gamma has PE lessons on Mondays and Wednesdays. On these days, please send children into school in appropriate PE kit.

Trips

This link gives you details of upcoming trips and educational visitors this academic year.

Homework

Each week, there will be short Maths, Writing and Handwriting activity to complete and spellings to learn. We ask for the homework to be kept in the children’s book bags with their reading books and diary in so their diaries can be checked every Friday. Homework is given out on a Thursday and should be returned by the following Thursday.

Curriculum Information

	Year 1 Curriculum Map – Autumn Term
Term	Art & Design	Computing	English	Maths	Geography	History	Music	PE	RE	Science
Autumn 1	Art Drawing and Painting	Digital Literacy Using technology Safely	Different sentence structures and sentence couplets with cohesion: Room on the Broom Handa’s Surprise This is the bear Beegu Not Now Bernard Owl Babies	Previous Reception experiences and counting within 100	Local Area – Our School	N/A	Hey You! Old-School Hip Hop	Gymnastics Run Jump Throw	Who is a Christian and what do they believe?	Seasonal changes Plants (Trees)
Autumn 2	DT Making a chair structure	Computing Systems and Networks- Technology Around Us		Comparison of quantities and part–whole relationships Numbers 0 to 5	N/A	Toys from the past	Rythm in the way we walk and Banana Rap	Gymnastics Run Jump Throw	How and why do we celebrate special and sacred times? (Christmas focus)	Seasonal changes Materials (Naming)
Year 1 Curriculum Map – Spring Term
Spring 1	UK Countries Drawing, painting and collage	Creating Media-Digital Painting	Stand-alone sentences and couplet sentences: The tale of Jack Frost Grendel-The cautionary tale	Recognise, compose, decompose and manipulate 2D and 3D shapes Numbers 0 to 10	The UK and it’s Countries	N/A	In The Groove	Attack Defend Shoot Dance Unit 1	Who is Jewish and what do they believe?	Seasonal changes Body parts and senses
Spring 2	DT Pop-up book Levers and sliders	Creating Media- Digital writing	Recounts Voices in the park	Additive structures Addition and subtraction facts within 10	N/A	Florence Nightingale	Round and Round	Attack Defend Shoot Dance Unit 1	What makes some places sacred?	Seasonal changes Materials and Properties
Year 1 Curriculum Map – Summer Term
Summer 1	3D sculpture Plants	Computer Science-Moving a Robot	Retelling of a familiar story Little Red Riding Hood Wolves	Numbers 0 to 20 Unitising and coin recognition	N/A	Mary Anning	Your Imagination	Send & Return Hit Run Catch	What does it mean to belong to a faith community? Visit to a local church.	Animals including humans
Summer 2	DT Fruit Kebabs	Computer Science-Introduction to Animation	Character and setting description Jack and the Beanstalk Garden Flowers	Position and direction Time	An Area of the UK	N/A	Reflect, Rewind and Replay	Send & Return Hit Run Catch		Plants
ADDITIONAL P.E

Other Information

Please can children bring a bottle of water each day (no juice please). The children can refill them in school when required. Please send separate drinks bottles for the classroom and lunch boxes and please label water bottles as children may have the same bottle.

Children are provided with a piece of fruit each day at break time as a healthy snack.

Please label the children’s clothes with their name and class so we can return any lost items.

We are always happy to talk to you; however, we are focused on welcoming the children in the morning. We are always available after school – let us know and we will arrange an appointment.

When sending any money to school, please place it in a sealed envelope labelled with the child’s name, class, amount enclosed and purpose and hand it to the member of staff at the door in the morning. We are not able to take money from you at the end of the day. Alternatively, you can take it to the school’s main reception.

If you have any enquiries or concerns, please raise them in the first instance with your child’s teacher or teaching assistant. Should you need further assistance, please call the school to arrange an appointment with Mrs Squires (Deputy Headteacher) or Mrs McGibney (Executive Headteacher).

The national curriculum

Key stage 1 and 2