Class 1

Welcome to Year One's Class Page!

The class teacher is Miss Dargie. The teaching assistants are Mrs Weller, Mrs Aarons and Mrs Hayward.

Class Email

class1@stocks-green.kent.sch.uk

Homework

Homework will be set on a Monday, to be completed by the following Monday. There are also two optional inspirational tasks every term, which can be found below.

Our weekly homework consists of:

1.10 minutes reading per day, including reading to an adult and being read to by an adult.

2. Five minutes practise of phonics and tricky words twice per week.

3. Five minutes practise of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s twice per week.

Year One: Monday 9^th June 2025

Forest School Rota for Term 6:

Badgers – Thursday 12th June

Foxes – Thursday 19th June

Hedgehogs – Thursday 3rd July

Squirrels – Thursday 17th July

Reading:

The Year One Phonics Screening Check will take place on an individual basis with Miss Dargie during this week. Please can the children continue to practise reading real and alien words on Phonics Play every day. Thank you for all your support with helping the children with their reading and phonics, it is greatly appreciated.

Please can the children read at home for ten minutes every day. Please tick and initial when your child has read a book and please write a comment if you would like to. Please can the children continue to bring their reading books to school every day, thank you. We are continuing to work on their reading fluency.

Examples of our learning last week:

In Maths, we completed our topic on Fractions. We continued with our practical work on halves and quarters. We cut shapes into halves and quarters and labelled each piece correctly. We then started our topic on position and direction. We studied clockwise and anticlockwise, quarter, half, three quarter and full turns. We used the Beebots to programme these different turns. We then studied left and right and moved objects along grids in the correct direction. In English, we wrote a recount. We focused on the correct use of sentences and spelling the Year 1 Common Exception Words accurately. We revised all our phase two- five graphemes. We then played games and read flashcards incorporating a mix of these sounds. We continued daily work on number and letter formation.

In P.E, we have been practising our activities for Sports Day. In our history topic about explorers, we studied Christopher Columbus. In R.E, we learnt about the Hindu festival of

Raksha Bandhan and we thought about people who look after us and how we look after them.

We started our topic, ‘Life in the City’ in geography. We discussed what a city is and learnt about the landmarks of different cities from different continents around the world.

Phonics/spelling

Please continue to work on Phonics Play this week. We will resume with spellings, by revising graphemes and practising our Year One Common Exception Words, next week.

In Phonics Play, the games that are the most helpful for reading real and alien words are: Buried Treasure, Dragons Den and Picnic on Pluto.

Please keep practising your correct number and letter formation with your number and alphabet mats, thank you.

Maths:

Please continue to practise counting in twos, fives and tens forwards and backwards.

Please make sure you recognise all the numbers to fifty. When you are confident with numbers up to 50, please learn your numbers up to 100.

Best Wishes from

Miss Dargie and the Year One Team.

Monday 2^nd June 2025

We hope you had a relaxing half term. It was lovely to welcome the children back to school today. We are looking forward to an exciting and busy term ahead.

Forest school will start next week, on Thursday 12^th June. The first group will be Badgers.

You will have received a message to say Sports Day has been postponed.

Please can the children wear their P.E kit tomorrow as we will do an inside P.E lesson.

Reading:

Please can the children continue to practise reading real and alien words on Phonics Play every day. Our Phonics Screening Check will take place next week, so please can they keep working on Phonics Play as much as they can. Thank you.

Examples of our learning last week:

In Maths, continued our topic on Fractions. We identified halves and quarters of objects/ shapes and of quantities. The children cut shapes into halves and quarters and divided groups of objects into halves and quarters. In English, we continued to work on sentence structure. We also revised all our graphemes and focused on Phase Five graphemes. We played games, read flashcards, and wrote words incorporating a mix of these sounds. We continued daily work on number and letter formation.

The children really enjoyed our Mental Health day. They took part in three workshops: yoga, drama and a superhero workshop. Congratulations to the children for working so hard to complete several laps in the Rainbow Marathon. Thank you for providing all their colourful costumes and for all your generous donations.

Phonics/spelling

We have now completed the spelling of all our Year 1 graphemes, in preparation for the Phonics Screening, next week.

Instead of spellings, before this assessment, please spend your time working on Phonics Play. We will resume with spellings, by revising graphemes and practising our Year One Common Exception Words, after the Phonics Screening week.

In Phonics Play, the games that are the most helpful for reading real and alien words are: Buried Treasure, Dragons Den and Picnic on Pluto.

Please work on all phases, particularly Phase 5 and please keep working on the specific sounds that are written in your contact book, so you are confident with these.

Please keep practising your correct number and letter formation with your number and alphabet mats, thank you.

Maths:

Please continue to practise counting in twos, fives and tens forwards and backwards.

Please make sure you recognise all the numbers to fifty. When you are confident with numbers up to 50, please start to learn your numbers up to 100.

Best Wishes from

Miss Dargie and the Year One Team.

Monday 19^th May 2025

This is the remaining rota for this term’s Forest School:

Friday 23rd May: Squirrels

As we have our rainbow marathon on Thursday, this week’s forest school is on Friday.

When we come back to school on Monday 2^nd June, the children will not need to wear their P.E kit on Monday as we are having a sports day practice on Tuesday. Please can they wear their P.E kit on Tuesday 3^rd June instead, thank you.

We look forward to our Sports Day on Thursday 5th June.

Reading:

Please can the children continue to practise reading real and alien words on Phonics Play every day. Our phonics screening check will take place on the week commencing Monday 9^th June, so please can they keep working on Phonics Play as much as they can. Thank you.

Examples of our learning last week:

In Maths, we started our topic on Fractions. We recognised and found of half an object or a shape. We then recognised and found half of a quantity. Finally, we recognised a quarter of an object or a shape. We did a lot of practical work in these areas to consolidate our understanding. In English, we continued to work on sentence structure. We also revised all our graphemes and focused on the sounds au, aw, ou, oi, and ea. We then played games, read flashcards, and wrote words incorporating a mix of these sounds. We continued daily work on number and letter formation.

In P.E, we have been practising our activities for Sports Day. In our history topic about explorers, we studied the life of the astronaut, Mae Jemison. In R.E, we learnt about the traditions of a Hindu wedding and designed our own henna tattoos. In science, we went on a walk around the school grounds to identify and find common garden or wild plants. We did observational drawings of wild plants.

Phonics/spelling

We have now completed the spelling of all our Year 1 graphemes, in preparation for the Phonics Screening, week commencing Monday 9^th June.

In Phonics Play, the games that are the most helpful for reading real and alien words are: Buried Treasure, Dragons Den and Picnic on Pluto.

There are specific sounds I would like some children to work on in Phase 5. Once you press start, you can select phase 5, then press ‘Revise all phase 5’ or select a specific sound to work on. I will write in your child’s contact book if there are any specific sounds I would like them to select. I would be grateful if they could please continue with Phonics Play over half term.

Please keep practising your correct number and letter formation with your number and alphabet mats, thank you.

Maths:

Please continue to practise counting in twos, fives and tens forwards and backwards.

Please make sure you recognise all the numbers to fifty. When you are confident with numbers up to 50, please start to learn your numbers up to 100.

Well done to all the children for all their hard work in term five. Thank you for all your continued support.

We hope you have a wonderful half term and we look forward to seeing you on Monday 2^nd June.

Best Wishes from

Miss Dargie and the Year One Team.

Monday 12^th May 2025

This is the remaining rota for this term’s Forest School:

Thursday 15th May: Hedgehogs

Thursday 22nd May: Squirrels

Reading:

We are just changing the books on Mondays now to enable the children to develop their reading fluency skills by re-reading their three books throughout the week. Please encourage the children to add expression when reading aloud.

Examples of our learning last week:

In Maths, we completed our topic on Multiplication and Division. We doubled numbers, using counters, ten squares and dienes blocks. We made equal groups of objects and we shared objects into equal groups. We did a great deal of practical work to help them consolidate their understanding of these important concepts, in preparation for them learning their times tables. We also used the White Rose maths program on the iPads to work on our addition, subtraction and doubling skills. In English, we have been working on sentence structure. We also revised the split sounds ‘a-e’, ‘e-e’ and ‘o-e’ and focused on the split sounds ‘i-e’ and ‘u-e’. We then played games, read flashcards, and wrote words incorporating a mix of these sounds. We continued daily work on number and letter formation.

We enjoyed a ‘Hidden nature challenge’ workshop last Thursday. We looked for animals, their habitats and used sticks and leaves to build animal homes. In P.E, we worked on our hopping, jumping and leaping skills as part of our athletics work. We enjoyed the team games associated with these skills. In our history topic about explorers, we studied Neil Armstrong and the first moon landing. In R.E, we learnt about the special occasions in a Hindu childhood.

Phonics/Spellings: Spelling : a (Sounds: a, o, ar)

Please learn to spell these words by Monday 20^th May. We will also practise them in class. We have three challenge words that you may like to try if you can confidently spell

1-6. Please work on your letter formation alongside your spellings.

1. chat

2. lamp

3. sand

4. was

5. wasp

6. wand

Challenge Words, ar sound:

vase
after
father

Please keep practising your correct number and letter formation with your number and alphabet mats, thank you.

Maths:

Please continue to practise counting in twos, fives and tens forwards and backwards.

Please make sure you recognise all the numbers to fifty. When you are confident with numbers up to 50, please start to learn your numbers up to 100.

Thank you for all your support.

Best Wishes from

Miss Dargie and the Year One Team.

Tuesday 6^th May 2025

We hope you had a lovely bank holiday weekend.

This is the remaining rota for this term’s Forest School:

Thursday 8th May: Foxes

Thursday 15th May: Hedgehogs

Thursday 22nd May: Squirrels

Reading:

Please continue to practise reading real and alien words on Phonics Play every day.

Examples of our learning last week:

In Maths, we continued our topic on Multiplication and Division. We continued to look at equal and unequal sets of objects. We made equal sets of objects in twos, fives and tens and we did a lot of practical work to reinforce our understanding, for example of 4 groups of five objects, 10 groups of two objects etc. We added equal groups, for example 5+5+5+5+5 = 25. Finally we made arrays of objects, we counted how many objects there were in each row and column. In English, we wrote a recount and also revised graphemes through a range of activities. We focused on ‘ar’ and the split sounds ‘a-e’, ‘e-e’ and ‘o-e’. We read real and alien words relating to these, through flashcards, written work, games and activities. We continued daily work on number and letter formation.

In our PSHE work on Zones of Regulation, we made our own regulation plan for when a trigger happens. We talked about when we get a trigger, how we identify the zone we are in, how we regulate and what the outcome is. In Science we named the parts of a flowering plant and we learnt about their functions. We started our history topic on explorers. We had to guess our topic by the clues left around the classroom. We then thought of a place we would like to explore and the things we would need to take on an expedition.

Phonics/Spelling revision: Sound : o (Spellings: o, a)

Please learn to spell these words by Monday 12^th May. We will also practise them in class. We have three challenge words that you may like to try if you can confidently spell

1-6. Please work on your letter formation alongside your spellings.

stop
from
song
long
what
want

Challenge Words:

watch
squash
waffle

Please keep practising your correct number and letter formation with your number and alphabet mats, thank you.

Maths:

Please continue to practise counting in twos, fives and tens forwards and backwards.

Please make sure you recognise all the numbers to fifty. When you are confident with numbers up to 50, please start to learn your numbers up to 100.

Thank you for all your support.

Best Wishes from

Miss Dargie and the Year One Team.

Monday 28th April 2025

As there is a bank holiday next Monday, please can Year 1 come to school in their P.E kit on Tuesday next week. Thank you.

This is the remaining rota for this term’s Forest School:

Thursday 8th May: Foxes

Thursday 15th May: Hedgehogs

Thursday 22nd May: Squirrels

Reading:

Please continue to practise reading real and alien words on Phonics Play every day.

Examples of our learning last week:

In Maths, we started our topic on Multiplication and Division. We made equal sets of objects and counted in twos, fives and tens. We counted forwards and backwards from different starting numbers. In English, we wrote a recount and also wrote our letters to Mrs Mitchell about OPAL. We revised graphemes through a range of activities. We read real and alien words relating to these. We continued daily work on number and letter formation.

In PSHE, we continued our work on the Zones of Regulation. We looked at a variety of situations. We discussed how we would approach all these to reach a positive outcome. In P.E, we continued our athletics work. We continued to work on our target practise and using javelins. In Science we started our Plants topic, we learnt about plants that grow from seeds and those that grow from bulbs.

Phonics/Spelling revision: Sound : ar (Spellings: ar, a)

Please learn to spell these words by Tuesday 6^th May. We will also practise them in class. We have three challenge words that you may like to try if you can confidently spell

1-6. Please work on your letter formation alongside your spellings.

card
cart
barn
star
park
bark

Challenge Words:

shark
partner
plaster

Please keep practising your correct number and letter formation with your number and alphabet mats, thank you.

Maths:

Please practise counting in twos, fives and tens forwards and backwards.

Please make sure you recognise all the numbers to fifty. When you are confident with numbers up to 50, please start to learn your numbers up to 100.

Thank you for all your support.

Best Wishes from

Miss Dargie and the Year One Team.

Optional Inspirational Tasks: Term 6

Task 1: History

We have been learning about explorers in history. So far we have studied Neil Armstrong, Mae Jemison and Christopher Columbus. Can you create a fact page about the astronaut Tim Peake?

You can draw pictures, print off pictures, write or type facts on the computer. You can include how he finds life in space. These websites will be helpful for your research:

https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Tim-Peake/630104

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/space/tim-peake-interview/

I hope you enjoy learning about this modern day explorer!

Task 2: Art

We are continuing our topic on plants this term. Please could you create a picture of summer flowers. You could paint a picture or use different materials such as collage, felt pens, crayons, coloured pencils or use pressed flowers. These are some ideas for your pictures:

Optional Inspirational Tasks: Term Five

Task One: Science

We are studying plants in science in terms 5 and 6.

We have talked about the parts of a flowering plant and their uses.

Please can you look at different flowering plants. Can you choose a plant and:

Draw the plant and label the petals, stem, leaves and roots.
Draw around one of the leaves and measure the width and length of it to the nearest centimetre.
Draw around one of its petals and measure the length and width of it to the nearest centimetre.
Measure the length of the stem to the nearest centimetre.

Please write the measurements as ___cm, remember you don’t have to write the whole word, centimetres!

You could also look at the petals and leaves from different plants and draw around them to compare their shapes and sizes.

Task Two: Art

We are studying explorers in history. We will be learning about astronauts. Please can you make a 3-D rocket that we can display in our classroom. Here are some ideas below:

Year One Common Exception Words Flashcards

Year One Common Exception Words Flashcards

Year 1 Phonics Screening

Year 1 Phonics Screening

Previous Phonics Screening Assessments:

Phase Two Phonics Support:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2yf4j

Phase Three Phonics Support:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm

Year 1 Common Exception Words

During Year 1 the children will be expected to spell a number of words correctly in their writing by the end of the year. We will focus on a number of words each term to support them. Please find the Year 1 common exception words below.