Year 1 - St Bernadette
Staff
Class Teacher: Mrs Retter
HLTA: Mrs T
Wider Year 1 Team: Miss Holder, Mrs Quinn, Mrs Ambridge
Curriculum Information
Curriculum Information Powerpoint
Autumn Curriculum Info Leaflet
Homework
Weekly Expectations:
All children from Reception to Year 2 will be asked to read at home at least 4x a week and for this to be recorded by parents, in their reading records.
Class teachers from reception to Year 2 will send home a list of high frequency words which should be read through and practised at least once a week.
Access to Numbots (Reception to Year 2) and Times Table Rockstars (Year 1 and Year 2) will be provided by the school so that these apps can be used to practise key maths skills at home. This should be completed for no more than 10 mins a day and at least 3 x a week. Class teachers may also send home harder to read and spell words, or phonics resources to help support your child.
Half Termly Expectations:
Every half term, class teachers will create and send home a menu of activities to be completed over the course of the half term. These will be a range of tasks and will include 2x maths, 2x English, 2x RE, 1x History or geography, 1x science, 1 x Art or DT, 1x music or computing.
These menus will be glued into a homework book and we will invite you to complete as many as you can. You can then tick off those that you have completed and either record in the homework book what you have done. If you have taken a photograph or would prefer to share something electronically, this can be sent through to class teachers via Google Classroom. Each class will then allocate an afternoon where children can bring in and share some of the tasks that they have completed at home.
Weekly Learning WB 13/10/25
Maths:
This week in Maths, year one having been learning to record addition number sentences. We have discussed the meaning of the + and = symbols and used these in our number sentences. We have also been using our maths books, working on our number formation, using the following rhyme: 'One digit one square, they don't like to share!'.
English:
In Drawing Club, we have been enjoying a clip from 'The Pink Panther'. As the clip has no talking, we have been using our imaginations to come up with our own vocabulary, imaging what the characters might be saying.
As part of our learning, the children have created 'Wanted' posters for the pink panther, using adjectives to describe what he looks like.
RE:
In RE this week, we have been learning about the importance of prayer and discussing how it is a way of drawing closer to God. We have looked closely at the Our Father and what the prayer means. We have also been working hard as a whole school, to make a display for the hall representing the Our Father.
Science:
In Science, we have been learning about animal groups. We have been using magnifying glasses to identify zoomed in pictures of animals. Once the animals were identified, we discussed which animal group they fit into (mammal, bird, fish, reptile or amphibian). We then discussed what each animal eats and grouped them based on this (carnivore, herbivore, omnivore).
Key Information
A love of reading!
Learning to read is perhaps one of the greatest gifts we can ever give a child. Many adults remember those special books that we loved to read as children; those books that made us laugh, smile and the adventure they took us on.
At St Rose’s, we want to give every child this same passion for reading. We have worked with the School Book List to resource every classroom book corner at school with a fresh range of appropriate and exciting texts.
Please follow the link below to see the books that are in your child’s book corner. You may wish to purchase one or two of these fabulous texts to enjoy with your child at home.
Year 1 Books Link:
Reading Books
Guided Reading will be changed throughout the week and individual choice books will be changed every Friday.
Homework
Please ensure you are reading every evening with your child.
P.E & Whispering Woods Days
Our P.E. days are Tuesday and Wednesday. P.E. kits should be kept in school at all times. We will send them home over the school holidays. Remember if your child has a club after school you will need to return their PE kit. All long hair needs to be tied back.
Our Whispering Woods day is Monday. Please make sure they have the appropriate named kit in school.
Morning Routine
When children arrive in the morning they are expected to say goodbye to their parents on the playground. The children then come into class and change out of their coats and outdoor shoes, putting away their book bags, water bottles and lunch boxes. Once their belongings are away the children go to their places where they complete their early morning work. At 8:40 the classroom door is closed and registration is taken, finishing with morning prayer. Any child arriving after 8:40 must enter school through the Main Entrance where they must be signed in.
