Year 1

General Information

Welcome to the Year One page.

Here we aim to share useful information that you can refer back to, we also want to celebrate and share the children’s learning with you.

What is happening and when?

• Our PE days are Tuesday and Thursday. Your child should come to school dressed in their PE kits on these days.
• Spellings are uploaded to Seesaw and are tested every Friday.
• Homework will be uploaded every Friday and is due the following Friday on Seesaw.
• Please ensure your child brings their reading books to school every day where we will change it if they have finished it at home. Please try to read at home at least 4 times a week and log it on the Boom Reader App.

Please send any enquiries to admin@middlestown.accordmat.org or contact me directly on SeeSaw.

Mr Andrews

Useful Websites

Maths/ English Games- Topmarks

Boom Reader App: https://parents.boomhub.app/

Seesaw: https://web.seesaw.me/families

Secret Garden Trip

The children had an amazing time at Secret Garden, showing lots of co-operation and teamwork.

They were fantastic on the long walk up to school and we saw lots of horses.

Virtual Classroom

In Year One we use Seesaw as our virtual classroom. Please click here for a link to the site. If you have any difficulty logging on please e-mail the office at admin@middlestown.accordmat.org and we will generate a new login code.

Year One Statutory Spellings

As part of our phonics scheme, children will learn ‘Harder to Read and Spell’ Words. You will find a list of these below.

Each week, your child will also have a weekly spelling test based on the sounds they have previously learnt in phonics. You will also find this list below.

Year 1 HRS Words

Year 1 Autumn 1 Spellings

Half Termly Curriculum Overviews

Please click the link below to see our half termly curriculum overviews:

Year One Autumn 1 Curriculum Overview

Annual Overview

Year One LTP

Weekly Timetable

Harvest Festival

Year 1 performed ‘Under the Harvest Moon’ at the Harvest Festival and created some great Harvest Art using fruit!

Science

Autumn 1

In Science, the children have been learning all about the human body. They have carried out a variety of experiments based on the 5 senses! Check out some of the pictures below from our experiments!

Lois Mailou Jones

As part of Black History Month, Year 1 learnt about Lois Mailou Jones who was an inspirational artist, teacher and role model whose work was influenced by Africa and the Caribbean. Despite racial and gender prejudices she achieved success and became the first African American artist to have a solo exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The children created masks inspired by Lois Mailou Jones’ work.