Year 1
Welcome to Year 1
The staff in Year 1 are Miss Bagga, Miss Seddon, Ms Martins and Mrs Bailey.
"Children are magic. they live in a world that overspills with exploration, connections, dreams and imagination" Greg bottrill
Year 1 is an adventure, where the staff work alongside the children to facilitate their own learning drawing on childhoods natural curiosity. Our classrooms encourage children to become inventors, story tellers, authors, mathematicians and much more.
Learning is encouraged through hands on and practical experiences, building on the excellent foundation laid in Reception. The classrooms are equipped with fantastic resources which the children can explore freely.
Pupils are taught in small groups where adults have more quality time with each pupil to assess their progress and take their learning forward. The skills and knowledge acquired from these sessions can then be explored by the pupils independently through the Continuous Provision. Planned play-based experiences inspire the children to consolidate their skills, knowledge and understanding enabling them to be independent, resilient learners who motivate themselves to take on the next challenge.
Phonics is a big part of Year 1. We follow an interactive and engaging phonics scheme (Floppy's Phonics) which aims to help all children to read in a systematic, accessible way. Children learn the skills of blending and segmenting, which support them to be highly effective decoders.
Our topic this term is 'Our World,' where we explore our own identities, the people in our family, our body parts and where in the world with live. Our topics are driven from high quality texts from a range of different authors such as, 'Meerkat Mail' and 'Funnybones', in order to foster and create a passion for and love of reading.
Our ethos is one of not being afraid to get things wrong and we understand that with practise, we become more confident and able. We are rewarded for our perseverance on tasks, our curiosity, our ability to communicate our thoughts and our ability to make connections between different areas of our learning.