Welcome to Year 1

Year 1 Team:

• Class 4 Teacher – Miss Fairbairn
• Class 5 Teacher – Mrs Dunnell and Mrs Brown (Year Group Leader)
• Class 6 Teachers – Mrs Russell and Mrs Clarke
• Ms Jervis - Higher Level Teaching Assistant
• Mrs Shafe – Teaching Assistant / Lunchtime Supervisor
• Ms Hemmings - Teaching Assistant
• Miss Lewis - Teaching Assistant
• Mrs Nichols - Teaching Assistant

Year 1 has three classes with a maximum of 90 children in the year group. In the autumn term year 1 follows a curriculum very similar to reception’s to allow the children time to get used to different classes. Their learning will be partly based on a planned play environment which gradually moves to more instances of “formal” lessons.

The year 1 children have three big topics a year, each covering two terms. The Autumn term topic is called Awesome Authors. The Spring term topic is called Out of this World. The Summer term topic is called Our Wonderful World.

We believe in creating exciting and stimulating learning experiences for the children and often start topics with a “wow” day and end with a year group event. We also use drama regularly to engage the children in their learning

This is what parents have said about a recent exhibition of the children’s work;

“Lovely to see the children’s hard work, a fantastic effort by all the children.”
“They have all worked so hard, thank you to the teachers.”
“I am very pleased with how my daughter is doing at school, thank you."