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.

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 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.

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

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 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 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.