Year 1 2025 - 2026
Mrs Sampson
Mrs Timmis
Welcome to Year 1
Mrs Timmis, Mrs Sampson, Miss Hughes and Mrs Begum
Mrs Timmis (Monday - Wednesday), Mrs Sampson (Thursday - Friday)
Please see the below information regarding this half term and what exciting things Year 1 will be learning! If you need to contact us for any reason, please do so on our class email: year1@vinetree.org.uk
Our Current Learning:
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What are the different parts of a plant called and which birds do I know?
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What do I know about the UK and where I live?
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| Our PHSE topic: | Our PE days: |
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Health and Wellbeing
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Tuesdays and Thursdays
Please ensure that children come to school in their full, and correct, PE kit on these days. |
General Information:
What will my child need to bring to school?
Full school uniform - All items labelled
A warm coat (labelled)
A water bottle (water only)
A small healthy snack
A lunch bag (if needed)
Please ensure all personal items are labelled before sending them into school.
Book bags to be brought in every MONDAY please.
Homework
Reading is crucial and the most important way in which you can support your child at home. We urge you to make it a priority. Once we know a group of sounds, we must get speedy reading words containing them! Read as much as you can! It doesn't need to be a whole book in one go, just a page or two a day makes a real difference - little and often.
You can find out more about reading and the reading program Read Write Inc below.
Numbots is a great tool to support maths – please let us know if you require your child’s log in again.
Numbots login page can be found by clicking here.
We may send out extra learning challenges throughout the term.
Reading Books
Children will be given reading books to take home every MONDAY.
Our reading focus in Year 1 begins with building on phonic knowledge to decode and blends sounds in words, whilst developing children's fluency in line with their knowledge of sounds. Children will use Book Bag Books in order to do this. It is highly recommended that you and your child work through the activities suggested to support their fluency when reading and understanding of the text. ( These activities are stapled to the inside cover of your child's reading record.)
Please use the SWAYs below from Mrs Timmis our Reading Lead on how to use Book Bag Books effectively.
Children should read at least 3 times per week and this should be recorded in their reading diary. Each reading activity from the Book Bag Books counts as a read alongside any other reading experiences e.g. sharing a Bingo Book. The name of the book title and a signature is all that is required when recording your child's reading.
In addition to their Book Bag Book children will be bringing home a Bingo Book and a non-fiction book which they can choose from our class library. These books are sent home with a view for you to enjoy them together. It is not expected that your child will be able to read these books independently.
Read Write IncRead Write Inc is the program we have chosen as a school to teach children the sounds needed to read. There are 44+ sounds that children need to know so they can sound out/Fred talk any unknown words. As children build their knowledge of these sounds, they will in turn develop their fluency. This means children will be able to read words, with the sounds they know, at a glance. It is vital children can read fluently in order to understand what they have read. See below for a list of all the sounds children need to learn in Year 1 and a video on how to correctly pronounce them.
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Phonics Screening Check
Children will take part in the Phonics Screening Check in June 2026.
Please see the video above for all the sounds Year 1 children need to know and how to pronounce them.
There are also some helpful downloads below that you might want to take a look at.
The sound games grid gives you some ideas of different ways to practice the sounds at home with your child in a fun and interactive way. Lots of these games can also be adapted in order to use the word cards in the download section.
For further fun activities and games please follow the links:
https://phonicsfamilycom.wordpress.com/
https://fiveminutemum.com/games-and-activities/play/phonics
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks
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