School gates open at 8:40 and our day finishes at 3:10. Our main classroom door for the start and end of the school day is Maple Class, located by the gate near EYFS.

Our PE lesson is on a Wednesday; children should come to school wearing their active uniform. We will also be engaging with outdoor play in our learning play daily.

We will change reading books on a Tuesday and Friday.  However, please ensure your child's reading book and diary is in school every day, as there will be an opportunity to read during the week with an adult during our Reading sessions. Reading books will be changed when an adult has signed your child's reading record. Please encourage re-reading of books to develop confidence, fluency and comprehension.

Autumn term learning

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Year 1 follows a continuous provision approach which may have elements similar to our Reception classroom. 

Phonics: We follow the Little Wandle Phonics Programme where every child learns 4 new sounds a week. If any children struggle within their phonics learning we may support them with additional 'Keep Up' activities.  We encourage the children to put sound buttons on their words to ensure they slow down and spot the diagraphs/ trigraphs. This term we will focus on revisiting Phase 3 and Phase 4 sounds.

English: In English, we will continue to apply the sounds and spelling patterns we learn through phonics to our writing. We will focus on writing simple sentences accurately, remembering to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. We will encourage children to develop confidence in expressing their ideas clearly and independently.

Maths: In Maths, we will revisit and strengthen our understanding of place value, developing confidence with numbers to 50 and beyond. We will explore how numbers are made up of tens and ones and use practical resources and representations to support our understanding.

Science: In science, we will be exploring the weather and how it is affected by the changing seasons. Every day, we will fill in our weather chart so that we can start to spot patterns and seasonal changes from month to month. We will also investigate how the trees and other plants in our school environment change throughout the Autumn term. The children have also asked for some fun experiments which we will definitely have a go at!

Our topic will focus on the theme of belonging. We will talk about what it means to belong to our school, our families and our local community. We will then travel back in time to discover what life was like for our grandparents and parents, when they were children. In particular, we will explore the toys they played with and compare them with the toys children enjoy today, identifying similarities and differences. We will cover these in our foundation subjects of PSHE, Geography, History & Art and through our classroom provision.