Curriculum
Year 1 Curriculum
Learning in year 1
We believe that every child is unique, who constantly learns through positive relationships, a stimulating environment and rich learning experiences. Therefore, we provide a balance of child-initiated and adult-led activities by fostering and valuing each child's curiosity, which encourages engagement and active learning. We take pride in our indoor and outdoor classrooms by providing a range of practical experiences for example; role play, construction play, sand and water, den building and physical play. Alongside this, we provide regular phonics, literacy, maths and reading sessions. We also arrange out of school trips, once a term, so children can access and experience real life situations and improve cultural capital.
How Can Parents Support Learning?
We greatly appreciate the role in supporting your child to become an independent learner.
You can support your child at home during their time in Year 1 by:
- Reading fiction and non-fiction books with your child and discussing the main story settings, events, illustrations and characters.
- Recognising different shapes and numbers in the world around us, for example; a square window, door numbers...
- Practise the days of the week, months of the year and the four seasons.
- Providing opportunities for children to count groups of objects, work out differences and compare quantities.
- Providing opportunities for children to subsitise number (to recognise quantities of number without counting) for example recognising the patterns on a dice, without needing to count the spots.
- Encouraging independent reading of signs and words, by sounding them out and blending them, for example; c-a-t...cat, d-i-sh...dish.
Handwriting
We use the Letterjoin handwriting scheme, but the children will be familiar with the Twinkl rhymes for letter formation which they learnt in Reception class.
