• Named water bottle
• Forest School will take place every Wednesday. Just like Reception, children come in suitable home clothes that day. Please can you ensure children’s wellies are provided in a named bag.
• On PE days, children need to come into school wearing their PE kits. Please can all items of kit be named. We do PE. twice a week (outdoor & indoor)- children need a tracksuit (black or blue), shorts (white or blue/black), t-shirt (white), and trainers for outdoor PE.
• Ear piercing - earrings need to be taped over for safety reasons.
• As we have limited space in the cloakroom, children only need their book bag and lunch box in school (if applicable). Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate large bags/rucksacks.
•  Please can we request that children only have one keyring on their book bags, otherwise trays won't close. 

Morning Break: 10.30-10.45

School provide a fruit but feel free to send your child with an additional healthy snack for morning play. Please ensure the healthy snacks do not contain nuts.

Lunch 12.30 -1.15

Afternoon play 2.10-2.20pm 

Children in Year 1 enjoy a variety of trips as well as workshops where visitors come to the school.

Trips this year include:

Visit to the Hive- This is an exciting workshop for our children which involves exploring the library and completing a range of activities that are linked with our learning in school. This year the theme was  ‘exploring’ as it linked with our Barnaby Bear unit in English.

St Stephens Church – ‘Experience Church’ workshop. This trip supports our learning on sacred places in RE. Children will have a chance to explore and identify the features of a Church. Children learn about what happens in a Church and why it is a special place for Christians.

Worcester Central Mosque- This trip supports the ‘Sacred Places’ unit in RE.  Children will get to explore the features of a mosque and learn about why it is a special place for Muslims. As part of this unit of study, children are encouraged to think of similarities and differences between different sacred places.

Workshops:

Mr Cadle -  Great Fire of London Workshop. Children take part in a range of different activities such as dressing up as Tudors, seeing exciting artefacts and they also have a go at using water squirts to put out a flame.

Animal Mania in school- This supports our Science unit all about animals. 

In Year 1, your child will read with an adult at least once a week. The children will also participate in a guided reading session during the week; reading a challenging text with an adult. Alongside this, the children read a range of texts as a class, providing further opportunities for us to monitor and assess your child’s reading.

Children will have daily phonics lessons where they learn to blend and segment different sounds.

We prepare children for their Phonics Screening Assessment which is a national test that will take place in June 2025. This test usually consists of 20 real words and 20 alien words!

We will share our sound mat we use in school to support your child’s reading at home. We recommend daily reading and PhonicsPlay games online are great for supporting children’s reading too.

Please make sure that your child brings their reading book and diary into school each day. 

Keep Fit- Tuesday afternoon

Construction club- Wednesday afternoon

Cheerleading- Friday afternoon

Mindfulness- Thursday afternoon

Building- Thursday afternoon 

1. Please listen to your child read on a daily basis and record the book your child has read in the blue reading diary. We encourage children to talk about what they have read so it would be great for you to ask them questions about the text to assess their comprehension. Reading as regularly as possible with your child will help to support your child's learning in school. We understand it can be difficult for children to read if they are feeling tired. If this is the case, it is fine for you to read to them and for them to listen. Alternatively you may want to take turns in reading.
2. We may also set topic based homework tasks each half term. 

1. Please listen to your child read on a daily basis and record the book your child has read in the blue reading diary. We encourage children to talk about what they have read so it would be great for you to ask them questions about the text to assess their comprehension. Reading as regularly as possible with your child will help to support your child's learning in school. We understand it can be difficult for children to read if they are feeling tired. If this is the case, it is fine for you to read to them and for them to listen. Alternatively you may want to take turns in reading.
2. We may also set topic based homework tasks each half term. 

Class with time:

1ZI-  Thursday 3.15-4pm

1GF- Thursday 3.15-4pm

1CW- Thursday 3.15-4pm

Dance with Miss Rayner every Tuesday morning

Computing with Miss Tauk

Music with Mrs Kainey

This will take place on between Monday 9 June to Friday 13 June 2025.