Year 1 at Hemland Primary School 2023-2024

Hempland Primary School Welcome to Year 1! 2023-2024

Meet the Team Year 1 Teachers: Miss Hopkins (left) Miss Scott (right) Year 1 Teaching Assistants: Miss Bruin Mrs Bell Mrs Beck Mrs Chesters will be returning from her maternity leave in the Autumn term and Miss Burbidge will be returning from her maternity leave at the start of the Spring term. Miss Hopkins will be the class teacher for the class until the return from maternity leave of both teachers.

Life in Year 1 Drop off 8.35 am 8.45 am. Both classes dropped off at Y1 entrance. Pick up time 3.15pm 1AH classroom door 1KS Y1 entrance PPA is Thursday pm Miss Bruin or Mr Johns will send the children out this half term. Home-school communication Please send any queries to the school email (office@hempland.pmat.academy) and we will do our best to respond as soon as possible. PE days are Monday (indoor) and Thursday (outdoor), your child will need both indoor and outdoor PE kits, clearly labelled with their name. Water bottles (named) should be sent in everyday. Please make sure they only contain water and not juice. Book bags Please try to only use book bags as much as possible unless there is a need for a different bag (such as changes of clothes).

Reading/Homework Reading books Children have the opportunity to change their showing off book (phonics) on a Tuesday and a sharing book on a Friday. The children should have already brought home a colour band book, a Hempland sharing book and a new reading record. The colour band books have been matched to their reading level during our first few Year 1 reading sessions. Ebooks Children will have the book they have been reading in guided reading with their teacher assigned on Collins e-books. They will have read this book three times throughout the week, so can show it off to you at home! Children need to have their colour band reading book AND reading record in school every day. Reading record - Please write a comment in your child s reading record if your child reads anything. We will stamp their reading record books every Tuesday. We really want to encourage the children to read for pleasure, so if they read a book from home, please jot that down in their reading record too. Homework - Phonics homework, that aligns with our teaching, will be sent home every Monday. On the school website, there is an optional homework grid which children can access and complete. We d love to see what they produce please bring them in to share!

Curriculum & Topics Our topic this half term is It s Okay to be Different! and we will be celebrating what our strengths are, working on trying our best in everything we do and learning all about our amazing bodies. We will be building on skills from Early Years and our learning environment is similar to Early Years. We now have weekly challenges for the children to do independently as well as a short but daily phonics, literacy, maths and reading session. In the afternoon, foundations subjects are taught alongside Handwriting and Math Blasts; this half term our focus will be on Science, Computing, PSHE, Music, DT and PE. We will be using stories this half term as a basis for some of our learning; The Colour Monster and Funnybones, as well as a whole host of other stories linking to emotions and feelings. Forest School We will try to get down to forest school or in the Y1 outdoor are a couple of times a term. So please send in named wellies for your child.

Important Dates Phonics meeting - TBC Great to be Me day! Tuesday 17thOctober

Expectations in Year 1 In Year 1 we want our pupils to be happy, independent, confident, resilient learners who always try their best! We want them to have a real love for learning and exploring. Reading please read as much as you can at home with your child, record any times you read with your child in their Reading Record. Encourage your child to read the books you have at home/from the library as well as their school books! Homework weekly phonics homework. Phonics Screening Check meeting to be confirmed. Spellings Spelling phonetically. Spelling Shed common exception/tricky words. Handwriting - we will be continuing to teach the print font.

E-Safety (Computing) We use Teach Computing to deliver E-Safety. A large focus in computing this year, will be online safety. This will involve learning how to be responsible online and when using technology. It will also involve knowing to seek help from a responsible adult when playing online or if they need help with technology. Please get in touch with school if you need any further advice or support on e-safety related matters.

Thank you Please feel free to ask any questions! The Year 1 team