Year 1
Welcome to Year 1
The Year 1 teaching team are Mrs. Corton, Mrs. Harbord and Mrs. Roberts.
The teaching assistants are Mrs. Angira and Mrs.Cordner.
If you have anything to tell us or questions please email the year 1 teaching team during working hours at year1@highwoodsprimary.com
Our School Day
Classroom doors open at 8:40am.
Children need to be in class by 8:45am, ready for the morning register to be taken.
Our phonics lessons start promptly at 8:55am.
Children have a morning break at between 10:15am and 10:30am.
They then have a morning snack, fresh fruit or vegetables, which is provided for them.
Lunchtime is between 11:45am and 12:45pm.
School finishes at 3:00pm.
Additional Information
Please click on the link to find out about our Year 1 themes.
In year 1, children will change for PE lessons in school, so they need to keep their PE kit in school on their pegs.
In Autumn term, our PE days are Mondays and Wednesdays, please ensure that any earrings are removed on these days,
Written homework is given out on a Friday and should be returned on Wednesdays. This involves the learning of key word spellings as well as suggested maths activities.
Children need to bring a named water bottle to school each day, containing plain water only, no juice or flavoured water please.
Useful Information Regarding the Year 1 Curriculum.
- Handwriting and letter formation
- Year 1 Maths content
- Year 1 reading and spellingSet 2 and 3 with the phrase used in school and some examples of words that share the sound
- Year 1 and 2 words to read and spell
Useful Websites and resources.
BBC Bitesize has fun and engaging activities to support learning and can be found here.
Read Write Inc have made many resources available for parents to use at home with their children. There are videos which explain how it is taught as well as lots of resources to use with your child. They can be accessed here.
Phonics Play have many useful resources and games to support children in learning phonics.