Year 1

Staff

Class teacher: Mrs Wilton-Moule

Support Staff: Mrs Glancy & Mrs Neale

Important Days and dates

PE lessons are on a Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon.

Children will have a maths homework book and will have a section to complete weekly. This will be handed out each Wednesday and should be brought back into school the following Wednesday.
A termly homework project will take place based on our topic. Each term, children will be given an opportunity to complete a piece of work linked to their topic. This will be displayed at the end of the term for parents and children to enjoy.
The phonics screening will take place in June 2026.
The children will have a half-termly spelling test. This will be based on the Y1 common exception words and any words that have been taught during the half term.
Reading Raffle - Friday - children will receive a raffle ticket if they have read 3 or more times in a week.

Spellings

Children will receive a list of half-termly spellings to practice at home. These spellings will be linked directly to the spellings that we have been learning in class each week.

Autumn Term Newsletter

Year 1 tricky words

Autumn Term Spelling Patterns & Parent Letter

Meet the Teacher 2025/26

Phonics

At St Mary’s we are following the Floppy’s Phonics scheme, and make great use of the resources within the scheme. We also provide extra activities for further consolidation of phonics sounds.

Floppy Phonics letter for parents and carers

Floppy Phonics Guidance

Floppy Phonics Alphabet Code

Reading

We will listen to children read at least twice a week.
Reading books will be changed on a regular basis.
Children will be read to regularly as a whole class. When an adult reads aloud,children are given an opportunity to be immersed in new language, genres and stories.