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Year One

Mrs Orphanides is your class teacher.

We have Learning Support Assistants - Miss Stepien (Monday - Friday)

Mrs Rodriguez (Tuesday and Thursday mornings).

Virtues and Values

The Virtues and Values for this half term are Attentive and Discerning. Pupil's in a Jesuit school are attentive to their experience and to their vocation; and discerning about the choices they make and the effects of those choices.

Class Saint

Our class saint is St. Andrew

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Year 1's class saint is St. Andrew. He is the patron saint of Scotland. As a class we constantly think about how we can be kind to others and spread God's love the way that he did.

Prayers

During Year 1 we will focus on these prayers. Please support your child to pray these at home.

Curriculum

We are very proud to be a part of the Building the Kingdom programme, the aim of which is to embed distinctive Catholic Curriculum design for the transformation of society. As said on their website, ‘through the National School of Formation, a dynamic and challenging approach to teaching and learning in a Catholic School has been developed. This initiative calls for the contextualising of all learning within the beliefs and values of the Gospel and the Catholic tradition, aspiring to reach the highest possible levels of learning. We call it Building the Kingdom…’

Through Building the Kingdom, we explore the big questions of purpose and meaning that arise throughout the Liturgical year, and then create lessons and events which engage students with the skills needed to be agents for a Spirit fuelled transformation of society.

You will find this terms plan for Building the Kingdom at the bottom of the page.

Through our curriculum work this term we will be focusing on

Catholic Social Teaching - Creation Stewardship

British Value: Mutual Respect

This term our Curriculum topic is

Our Wonderful World

This essential skills and knowledge project will teach the year 1 children even more about physical and human features, maps, cardinal compass points, and positional and directional language. We will be exploring how the local area has changed. We will also learn about the equator, hemispheres, and continents. The children will conduct simple fieldwork.

Science

Our science unit this term is Plants.

Spellings

Year 1 are learning how to use their growing phonics knowledge to spell words. Please could you support your child to practise the weekly spellings, which will be sent home in their homework book.

Spring 2

Friendly Reminders

* A named water bottle every day.

* ALL their belongings have been labelled with their names - coats, jumpers/cardigans and ties.
We are encouraging your child to take more

responsibility and become independent this term .

*Reading books and reading record book needs to be in school every day.

*PE will be every other Monday (starting 3.3.25) and every Tuesday.

Please ensure you send your child in their

school PE kit and trainers.

Reading

Home reading is vital as it helps your child practise their reading as it develops fluency and expression.

Please read with your child at least 3 times a week and record it in their diary. A reminder that children who read regularly 3 times each week will earn a gold star.

Your child's phonic teacher will be checking and changing reading books every week.

Home Learning

Homework books are given out on a Friday and need to be returned by the following Wednesday Weekly Spellings will also be sent home for children to learn. Please ensure these books are sent to school on Mondays.

Home learning

Phonics & HFW

Number Formation Worksheets.pdf

Topmarks mathsMaths website with exciting games to support your child learning maths.

PhonicsHow to support your child's reading at home.

RWIncRWInc is our school phonics scheme. Please use this website for parent guides and additional resources.