Year 1 Staff

Class teacher – Mrs Jones

Support Staff – Mrs Michalik, Miss McSweeney and Mrs Burke (afternoons)

PPA cover – Mrs Jobbins

Welcome to Year 1! 

Our PE days are on Wednesdays and Fridays

Please make sure your child comes to school in their PE kit on these days. 

PE kit

• A plain white t-shirt
• plain black jumper/tracksuit top or a school jumper
• Plain black shorts or tracksuits bottoms
• Trainers
• No jewellery to be worn on PE days

Autumn Learning 2026

RE

This term the children will be learning all about creation and Noah's Ark from the book of Genesis. We will also be learning about the Annunciation, the Visitation and the Nativity story. 

Writing

This term will focus on learning to use capital letters and full stops correctly to writer simple sentences. We will focus on the stories; 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea', 'Faruq and the Wiri Wiri' and traditional tales such as Little Red Riding Hood. 

Reading

In Year 1 will do a lot of work in phonics and reading to prepare the children for their Phonics Screening Check in June. We do phonics lessons every day using the scheme 'Essential Letters and Sounds'. We also read for pleasure every day and encourage reading at home. 

Maths

This term our focus will be on ensuring the children have a solid foundation of numbers to 10 and a good understanding of place value. We will also start to add and subtract within 10. 

Science

The children will be learning about animals and humans. They will be observing and comparing different animals, learning about their diets and where they live. They will go onto learning about our senses and parts of the human body. 

History

In history the children will be finding out about the Gunpowder Plot. They will learn about Guy Fawkes, order the events of the plot and understand why and how we remember it today. 

Geography

This term the children will learn about the geography of our local area, particularly Hunslet, and go on a local area walk. 

Art

In art the children will be drawing self portraits and then later will learn to use paper to make sculptures. 

Computing

This term we will be improving our mouse skills, learning about online safety and starting to think about algorithms.

Music 

This term we will do lots of learning about pulse and rhythm then we'll be doing lots of singing for our Nativity performance.