Year 1

Welcome to Year 1!

Your teachers for year one are Ms MacDonald and Miss Windle. Miss Windle will be teaching year one all day on a Monday and Tuesday mornings. Ms MacDonald will be teaching year one for the rest of the week except Wednesday afternoons- Miss Windle and Mrs Reekie will alternate every other Wednesday afternoon. Your teaching assistant for year 1 is Mrs Knowles- Leak who will be working with us on Monday and Tuesday morning and then all day Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Below you will find a list of the exciting topics we are learning about this year! As a class we are very excited to learn and discover new things that we have planned for our time in year one.

Year One will be doing PE inside on Monday afternoons and outside on Friday afternoons. Please make sure the children have their PE kits in school every day just incase they are needed for additional activities.

Useful Information

Below you will find lots of information that will help with home learning and support activities for all of our topics.

Monster Phonics: 

https://monsterphonics.com 

Monster Phonics Home Learning Ideas: 

This link gives parents access to lots of free resources and information: 

https://monsterphonics.com/free-resources/fun-ways-to-help-children-learn-phonics-spelling/ 

- free resources, for example, common exception word flashcards and powerpoints 

- free online games 

- information about phonics, multisensory activities for home and the screening test 

- how monster phonics works 

- additional topical resources 

Meet the Monsters...

https://youtu.be/5u0N7LJIW0Q 

Mathletics: 

https://community.mathletics.com/signin/#/student 

Bug Club: 

https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 

Purplemash: 

https://www.purplemash.com/login/ 

Mystery Readers Needed!
 

The aim of ‘Mystery Reader’ is to show children that adults love reading too so we would like to invite parents, grandparents or other family members to come into their child's class to read a children's story. This could be a book you particularly enjoyed reading when you were growing up, a current children's book brought from home or a book selected from the school library. The children will not know who is coming into their class for each session so it will be a surprise when their reader arrives.

We will be having ‘Mystery Reader’ sessions on Mondays, 2.50pm-3.10pm. If you would like to come in to be a mystery reader then please speak to Ms MacDonald or Miss Windle to book your slot.

We look forward to seeing you and hearing your stories!