Welcome to Year 1 - Ash Class

Teacher - Miss Farish

LSA - Miss Hodgson

Class Email - ash@connectedlearningmat.co.uk

Any questions, worries or concerns please feel free to email Miss Farish via this email - she will do her best to reply to you ASAP.

Things to remember: 

English - Talk for Writing

In English, we are looking at 'After the storm'. The children will learn to write for a range of purposes including stories, poetry and real events. At Cherry Tree we follow the 'Talk for Writing' approach for teaching writing.  This has three phases: imitation, innovation and invention. This term we will focus on capital letters, full stops, adjectives and verbs.

Phonics

We have now made started with stage 2 sounds in phonics.

It would be great to still practice the sounds in stage 1 to make sure we remember them.

Please click on the hyperlinks to view videos of 'Song of Sounds'

Stage 1 song

Stage 2 song

PhonicsPlay is a great website for children to access to practice their phonic skills from home. 

Reading

We aim to change your child's reading book every Monday and Thursday. This ensures each child has the opportunity to read their book within school to an adult twice a week and with their family at home to develop their segmenting, blending and overall fluency skills.

Children may start to get new books which they will get quizzed on within school once they are ready. This shows that the children are understanding what is happening in the book as they read it.

Maths

We will be teaching maths though White Rose. This is a research-based schemes of learning are designed to support a mastery approach to teaching and learning and are consistent with the aims and objectives of the National Curriculum.  We are also following a national Mastery programme provided by NCETM where we have been consolidating our basic maths. In the Autumn term we will be learning Place value and addition and subtraction.

Guided Reading

This term we will look at loads of different books by many different authors.

- We will talk about the different parts of the book like; the front and back cover, the spine, the title, the blurb ect.

- We will predict what might happen in the story just from looking at the front cover and from reading a few pages.

- We will use our inference skills to discuss how the characters are feeling in the stories. 

- We will use out sequencing skills to put the stories in order. 

- We will also discuss our likes, dislikes, patterns and puzzles about the story.