Welcome to Year 1 - Sycamore and Willow Classes

The teachers in Year 1 are:

Sycamore

Mrs Ward: Monday - Wednesday

Mr Aziz: Thursday - Friday

Willow

Mrs Salt: Monday - Friday

Summer Term only until 5th July

Miss May: Monday - Friday

(Oxford Brooks Trainee Teacher) 

Teaching Assistants:

Sycamore

Mrs Hutt - Monday to Friday

Willow

Mrs O'Malley - Monday to Wednesday

Mrs Porter - Thursday & Friday

Mrs Ellis - Tuesday & Wednesday

Important Information

P.E - Summer Term 

Sycamore: Tuesday and Thursday

Willow: Thursday and Friday

Please ensure you come to school in P.E kit on these days.

Forest School and Music  - Tuesday for both classes

For Forest School, please ensure you have waterproofs to cover your PE clothes and wellies.

Curriculum Information Summer 2025

English

Our Seaside topic continues this term. We will be looking at seaside poetry that will focus on the senses and will also be learning how to write seaside postcards. We will continue to practise the Phase 5 sounds to consolidate the children's understanding and all children will be taking part in the Phonics Screening Check which takes place on the week commencing 9th June 2025.

The following link will explain in more detail.  https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/676e908e517edf5c74c83728/Phonics_screening_check_information_for_parents.pdf

Reading

We have a daily story slot after lunch, during which time we read a variety of picture books. Every child in the class is heard read by a teacher over a two week period.

Maths

This term we will start by learning about position and direction. We will practise full, half, quarter and three quarter turns, left and right, forwards and backwards and above and below. We will finish the module by looking at ordinal numbers. We will then focus on numbers up to 100, partitioning into tens and ones, finding one more or one less and compare any two numbers. Finally we will be learning about money up to £1 and days and months of the year. Then we will learn how to tell the time to the hour and half past. 

Science

This term we are learning about plants, the food we grow and where it comes from. We will learn about how a plant changes over time and what it needs to grow. We then move onto the changes we expect to see in Summer and will be collecting and recording data as well as learning about the main changes in each of the seasons. 

Humanities - Geography

In Geography we will be learning what it is like to live in Shanghai compared to Long Crendon and comparing the physical features of both places. We will focus on learning the continents and some of the oceans, using directional language like near, far, left and right. 

RE 

This term we are learning about who are the important people in religion and why. We will be comparing Judaism and Christianity.

PSHE

Our topic this term is called Changing Me. We will learn about animal lifecycles before looking at our own changing bodies, the difference between boys and girls body parts and learning the special names for our private parts. We will be thinking about learning and growing and how we cope with changes that are taking place. 

D&T

This term we will be investigating foods and looking at where our food comes from. We will learn to describe different fruits and vegetables before designing and making a fruit smoothie for ourselves.

Computing

This term we will focus on maze explorers on Purple Mash. The children will have the opportunity to develop their familiarity on the iPads in school. 

Music

This term they will be learning about using their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes and playing tuned and untuned instruments musically. 

P.E

One session will be swimming (Sycamore on Tuesday and Willow on Friday) 

The second session will be cricket. - Thursdays for both classes (Children in both classes should wear their PE kits on Thursday). 

Sycamore swimming will be on Tuesday (second lesson 9.50 - 10.40am) Children will need to wear their PE kits to school on this day and bring in their named swimming kits in a separate bag. (On Forest school days they will need to bring in their Forest School kits too.) 

Willow Class will be swimming on Fridays first lesson (9 -10am)  Children should come to school in their PE kits on Friday and bring their swimming kit in a separate bag. Please be prompt so we can make the most of our time in the pool - thank you. 

Parent Partnership
We are always happy to discuss anything with parents and carers to help to support children in learning or to provide pastoral support. If you would like to meet, please contact the office to arrange this.

    Bug Club Sounds and Actions

In their phonics lessons, the children are taught the letter sounds along with a matching action. This helps many children remember the individual letters or combination of letters more readily. It is important that the children use the 'pure' sound as they read each letter, this will ensure the words makes sense when blended back together. Phases 2, 3  & 4 are taught in Foundation and phase 5 in Year 1.

(Please note there are no new sounds taught in Phase 4.)

Copy the link below into your browser to watch a video of the sounds taught in each phase.

Phase 2 

https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/bcpafsp2

Phase 3

https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/bcpafsp3

Phase 5 (Set A)

https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/bcpafsp5a

Phase 5 (Set B)

 https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/bcpafs5