Year 1
Welcome to the Year One Class page
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Summer Term Newsletter Year 1
10am – Reception – Suitable for children who can blend and read words such as ‘fish’, ‘chat’ and ‘rain’ 10:30am – Year 1 – Suitable for children who can confidently blend and read words such as ‘stamp’, ‘chair’ and ‘green’ 11am – Learning to Blend – extra blending practise for children in Reception and Year 1
Home learning highlights
Recommended reading list Year 1
Meet the Teacher Year 1 September 2020
Letters and Sounds
Spellings Spring Term
Sample Phonic assessments can be found under the Parents page, follow the assessment link.
The five key skills taught through our synthetic phonics programme includes the following:
- Learning the letter sounds – children are taught the 42 main letter sounds. This includes the alphabet sounds as well as digraphs such as sh, th, ai and ue.
- Learning letter formation – using different multi-sensory methods, children learn how to form and write the letters.
- Blending – Children are taught how to blend the sounds together to read and write new words.
- Segmenting – this involves children identifying sounds in words so that they have the best possible start for improving their spelling.
- Helping children with tricky words – English contains a large number of regularly used words that don’t follow a phonetic patters. This words are learnt separately, alongside children’s acquisition of phonic skills.