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 12^th May 2025

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

Thursday 15th May: Hedgehogs

Thursday 22nd May: Squirrels

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.

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 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 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.