Year 1 2024 - 2025

Mrs Carew

Parents and Families of Year 1

Mrs Carew

Welcome to Year 1 class page 2024-2025

School starts at 8:45am and finishes at 15:15pm- if you can drop off and pick up from the Infant playground and access this via the gate round the right side of the village hall.

Please find the Start of Year pack attached, the yearly overview and a letter from this year’s Year 1 class- they have pearls of wisdom for you!

I will use the Year 1 class webpage to keep families informed with what's going on. Please do take the time to check this for regular weekly updates (News Items - below) about our learning in class, as well as notes and important dates for the coming week.

Families, there is a variety of ways for you to contact me. If you would like to get in touch, or find information, you could:

Face-to-face:– pop in to see us either before or after school
Drop a line:- write a note but please don't put any important notes into child’s planner (I only see this once a week)
Telephone:- give us a ring on 01270 918940 – best before/after school, or during lunchtime
Website:- check out this Year 1 class page (updated each weekend)
E-mail:- contact me at mrs.carew@goostrey.cheshire.sch.uk (emails are checked regularly throughout the week)
Newsletter: check the school newsletter online – you’ll find it on the homepage, uploaded each Friday
Twitter: the school has a Twitter account - search for @goostreyprimary to see regular update

On this page you will find lots of information that will be useful to help you and your child. Below you will see a summary of our learning for the term ahead and information about homework. At the end of each week please check the "News Items" for information about the week ahead - scroll down to the bottom of the page to find it.

Please remember to tell me if your child will not be collected by the usual adult at the end of the day. Thank you.

Spring Term 2025

I hope you had a happy and relaxing Christmas! Thank you so much for your kind wishes, cards and gifts.

After a great start to Year 1, I am looking forward to our spring term together.

In English we will be using the book ‘Major Glad, Major Dizzy’ as inspiration to help our finding story writing (which links to our History topic). We will be exploring toys from the past and comparing them to those of our grandparents, parents and our own.

In Maths we will look at place value and addition and subtraction related to bigger 2 digit numbers.

In Science we will explore the topic ‘Polar Places’- identifying polar animals, what they eat and sorting them into groups based on this, weather in winter and what polar explorers would wear to keep them warm.

In PHSE we will continue to use My Happy Mind to help us to have awareness of our feelings. This term we will focus on gratitude/ appreciation- what our brain looks like when we give and receive gratitude and how we can notice it and ways we can give appreciation to others.

If the children can continue to come into school in PE kits (trainers, joggers and warm hoodies are advised) on Friday’s.

As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

Thanks again for your continued support,

Mrs Carew

PE- Friday (Spring 1 and 2) School PE kits to be worn to school on this day.

Reading Challenge- Reading for 14 consecutive nights will earn you a place on the ‘Reading Challenge Wall of Fame’ and will earn you 10 house points.

Homework in Year 1:

Reading - Children should read at home every night if possible- please record in their diary so this can be counted for their 14 day reading challenge.

Children will receive 2 colour banded books and 1 phonics book related to the sounds/phase we are learning in school. Please send these into school every Thursday and they will be changed and returned home on Friday.

Handwriting/ Phonics homework

Remember to check out the news page - it is updated weekly for topics, thoughts from the children and other important information.

OUR NEWS PAGE WHICH IS BELOW -

Just Scroll down a little