Year 1
Welcome
Welcome back to all our wonderful Year 1 children and their families. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas break and enjoyed your festive celebrations. It has been a good start to the 2020/21 academic year with lots of fun and hard work in a very successful Autumn Term . We have enjoyed getting to know each other in our Year 1 classes and we are looking forward to a successful Spring and Summer Term too.
Year 1 Spring Term 2021
This term in Year 1 our topic is 'Around the World'. Here is an overview of some of the learning we will be doing.
Year 1 Curriculum presentation Autumn 2020
Thank you to those of you who came to our curriculum presentation. Here are the slides from the presentation. If you were unable to attend the meeting please have a look through the slides and if you have any questions please speak to your child's class teacher.
Key information
Key words
In Year 1 it is expected that children will read key words on sight, or be able to fluently apply their phonics to read them. Throughout the year children will also be learning to spell these words. Some of these words are 'tricky words' that cannot be sounded out (e.g. said) and some of these words require the children to apply their phonics knowledge (e.g. sound). Please click here to see the words the children will be covering in Year 1, through their phonics lessons, spelling time and the English curriculum. It would be really helpful to practise a few words at a time at home too.
Reading
Your child will bring home a scheme book appropriate for their reading level in their book bag each day. Once the book has been read either at home or school, and this has been recorded in the red reading log, your child will be able to change their book to get the next one in that particular scheme. For more information about reading, please refer to the home-school partnership document at the bottom of this page. Thank you for your continued support in reading regularly with your child at home.
Phonics
When supporting your child with their reading, you may find it useful to refer to these sounds. As well as the individual alphabet sounds (e.g. the 'd' sound in 'dog'), your child will also learn these digraphs (sounds with two letters) and trigraphs (sounds with three letters).
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qu – queen, quick |
ear – hear, dear |
oe – toe, goes |
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ch – church, much |
air – fair, pair |
au – autumn, launch |
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sh – sheep, shop |
ure – sure, cure |
a_e – make, came |
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th – thin, with |
er – corner, her |
e_e – these, even |
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ng – sing, strong |
ay – day, tray |
i_e – like, time |
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ai – rain, sail |
ou – out, cloud |
o_e – home, cone |
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ee – feet, keep |
ie – pie, tie |
u_e – rule, cube |
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igh – light, night |
ea – meat, seal |
i – find, child |
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oa – goat, moan |
oy – boy, annoy |
o – cold, told |
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oo – book, boot |
ir – girl, skirt |
c – circle, central |
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ar – farm, chart |
ue – blue, true |
g – giant, ginger |
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or – for, torn |
aw – saw, yawn |
ow – blow, snow |
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ur – hurt, turn |
wh – when, which |
ie – field, chief |
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ow – cow, town |
ph – photo, phone |
ea – bread, head |
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oi – coin, soil |
ew – new, chew |
ey – donkey, monkey |
Letter formation
Your child will continue to practise the cursive letter formation that they learnt in Year R. In Year 1, once the children are confident with forming letters correctly and with the correct orientation, they may begin to look at joining. Please see below for guidance on letter formation.
- Fleet Infant School,
- Velmead Road,
- Fleet,
- Hampshire,
- GU52 7LQ