Year 1

Welcome to Year 1

Croeso I Blwyddyn 1

Miss Jones is your teacher.

Miss George helps us in class too.

Here is a timetable of our weekly routines:

Class page on the school website will be up-dated with information on the learning of the week.

This week we have been ......

• Talking about the Golden Rules
• Talking about what stops us from learning
• Learning to play in different areas of our classroom
• Counting objects to 20
• Writing numbers to 20 
• Making sentences complete by adding full stops to them
• Reading and reordering jumbled up sentences
• Writing invitations to our Macmillan coffee morning
• Designing our class bake for the school bake off!

This term our topic for learning is Belonging. We are looking forward to finding out about ourselves and how we keep fit and healthy. We will be inviting you to share Me boxes in a few weeks. We look forward to hearing about your favourite foods, games and places. You will be talking about your families and communities.

We will be looking at different cultures and respecting each other. We will be celebrating Diwali. We hope to visit a local fire station to learn about fire safety and how to stay safe on Bonfire night. 

This term in literacy we will be continuing to learn our letter sounds. We will be learning to spell high frequency words, topic words and learning spelling strategies. We will have daily handwriting practice to reinforce spelling. We will also be learning how to write a persuasive text on keeping healthy. 

In Mathematical development we will be learning to read, write and order numbers to and beyond 20.  We will be learning to understand and say the value of digits in two digit numbers.  We will also be focusing on data handling and presenting data in different ways. 

In welsh, we will be talking and writing about ourselves.