Autumn Term in Year 1

We are excited for another fun-filled year of learning and exploration in year 1. We will continue to strive to make your child’s experience in education special, continuing to develop their relationship with their teacher and earning support assistants, who will support them and ensure that their emotional and academic needs are met daily. Our aim is for your children to become confident learners and to carry their love of learning throughout their lives.  

During Autumn term in Year 1, we will read a variety of inspirational texts where we will explore the character traits of kindness, citizenship, integrity, curiosity, bravery, and gratitude.  

In our first text, we will explore the tale of The Gingerbread Man. We will share our ideas on how the characters in the story did or did not, show kindness and integrity. We will explore streets over time in history, looking at their similarities and differences.  

Next, we will immerse ourselves in the magical story of My Pet Star who is thankfully shown great kindness by strangers.  

In geography, we will explore our local area through developing our sense of place and developing our map reading skills.  

We will embark on an exciting adventure to the South Pole in the book Lost and Found, where we will utilise our curiosity to help the penguin return to his home. This will be followed on by the story Stick Man. We will analyse the text and explore the characters practising using capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and much more. 

In RE we will continue to develop our knowledge on the teachings and beliefs of a range of different religions and look at how this is represented in society across Great Britain. We will talk about what it means to belong to a faith community. 

To top it all off we will celebrate Black History Month and Rosh Hashanah, as well as giving a Christmas performance!   

It is going to be a busy and thoroughly enjoyable term! 

Meet the team 

Miss Hayes – Class Teacher

Miss Fitchett – Learning Support Assistant

Important Information

• Miss Hayes will be available every day before and after school to receive messages, celebrate successes and answer any questions.  
• Reading books need to be returned to school every Thursday. New books are sent home on a Friday.   
• Please make sure your child’s book bag, containing their reading books and reading record, is brought into school every day.  
• Please continue to sign your child’s reading record book daily. 
• PE lessons are held on a Thursday afternoon- children will come to school on Thursday wearing their PE kits. 
• Home learning will include daily reading and weekly spellings.

As always, there will be lots of learning and exciting activities going on in Year 1 this term. Please speak to our admin team for access to the Year 1 Instagram feed @wps_year1