Year 1 | Fleet Infant School

Welcome

Welcome to all our new Year 1 children and their families. It has been a good start to the 2020 academic year with the children settling in well despite all the unfamiliarity that comes with moving into a new year group. We have enjoyed meeting our new classes and are getting to know each other better and better each day.

Year 1 Autumn Term 2020

This term in Year 1 our topic is 'Enchanted Forest'. 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).

qu – queen, quick	ear – hear, dear	oe – toe, goes
ch – church, much	air – fair, pair	au – autumn, launch
sh – sheep, shop	ure – sure, cure	a_e – make, came
th – thin, with	er – corner, her	e_e – these, even
ng – sing, strong	ay – day, tray	i_e – like, time
ai – rain, sail	ou – out, cloud	o_e – home, cone
ee – feet, keep	ie – pie, tie	u_e – rule, cube
igh – light, night	ea – meat, seal	i – find, child
oa – goat, moan	oy – boy, annoy	o – cold, told
oo – book, boot	ir – girl, skirt	c – circle, central
ar – farm, chart	ue – blue, true	g – giant, ginger
or – for, torn	aw – saw, yawn	ow – blow, snow
ur – hurt, turn	wh – when, which	ie – field, chief
ow – cow, town	ph – photo, phone	ea – bread, head
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.