Year 1

At Glenmere, we use a systematic approach to the teaching of synthetic phonics to enable children to develop secure reading and spelling skills. It is proven that high quality phonics teaching is ‘the best route for children to become fluent and independent readers. A strong emphasis on high quality teaching of phonics can substantially reduce the number of children at risk of falling below age-related expectations for reading. At Glenmere we use Reading Planet Rocket Phonics to teach phonics.. Teachers make use of the resources(including online, interactive resources) to support the children’s learning of phonemes in KS1. This sequence sets out clear expectations of pupils’ progress in phonics week by week and term by term.

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https://www.risingstars-uk.com/series/rising-stars-reading-planet/phonics-guide/advice-for-parents

The Reading Planet Guide to Reading with your Child provides guidance for reading at home with children aged 4-7 years. This handy guides explains phonics and book banding and includes tips of developing comprehension skills.

Parent Guide to Reading Planet

Class Newsletters

Our class newsletters celebrate all the great learning that has been going on in Year 2. They are full of the learning that has been taking place and how the children have been learning in many ways.

Supporting Your Child Letters

Year 1 Autumn Supporting Your Child Letter

Knowledge Organisers

These are our year 1 knowledge organisers. They give you bite sized information about the learning that will be covered for each of our topics. They also include key vocabulary that is used in our lessons with their definitions.

Autumn Term 1

PSHE - My Healthy Self

RE - Who is a Muslim and how do they live?

Science - Sensing seasons

Geography - What's it like here?

ICT - Technology around us

Music - My favourite things: Keeping the pulse

Art - Exploring line and shape

Personal Development

At Glenmere, we like to ensure our pupils are prepared to engage as individuals, parents, workers and citizens with economic, social and cultural change, including the continued globalisation of the economy and society, are able to adapt to new work and leisure patterns and keep up with the rapid expansion of communication technologies. We will showcase our learning in Class Dojo in lots of different ways.

Please find below our Personal Development Overview and the books we use to support our learning with Everyone Welcome

Year 1 Personal Development Overview

Everyone's Welcome

Year 1 Curriculum Yearly Overview

This document details our Year 1 curriculum and learning priorities across all subjects for the academic year across each term. Use this overview to see our Year 1 learning and key half-termly focus areas.

Year 1 Yearly Overview

Reading in Year 1

Each half term, we spotlight an Author of the Half Term and dive deep into their life and stories. Alongside reading their books to build our VIPERS reading skills (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval, and Summarising), the children discover fun facts about the authors themselves, helping them connect the real people behind the books and sparking a genuine love for reading!

Our author for the first half of the autumn term is Julia Donaldson

Children in KS1 are encouraged to read a range of books. Below are examples of the types of books which cover each genre the children need to be reading.

Title	Author	Genre
Treasury of Fairy Tales	Axel Scheffler	Fairy Tales, Picture book
Outside in	Deborah Underwood and Cindy Dery	Picture book
The Elephant and the Baby	Elfrida Vipont	Classic read, picture book
Dogger	Shirley Hughes	Realistic fiction
Don't Think of Tigers	Alex Latimer	Picture book, Humour
The Tiger who came to Tea	Judith Kerr	Classic read, Picture book
Beegu	Alexis Deacon	Picture Book, Adventure
Hole in the Zoo	Chloe and Mick Inkpen	Picture book, Humour
Meg and Mog	Helen Nicoll	Picture book, Fantasy
Lost and Found	Oliver Jeffers	Picture book
You Can't Take an Elephant on a Bus	Patricia Cleveland-Peck	Rhyming picture book
The Dark	Lemony Snicket	Mystery, Picture book
Mister Magnolia	Quentin Blake	Poetry
Where the Wilk Things are	Maurice Sendak	Picture book
Stanley's Stick	John Hegley	Fantasy
	Non-Fiction
Title	Author	Genre
Habitats	Hannah Pang	Animals (Science & Nature)
Slug Life	Moesha Kellaway	Animals, Humour
Measuring Me!	Nicola Kent	Maths, picture book
Volcano	Claire Saxby and Jess Racklyeft	Geography (Sience & Nature)
Eddie’s Garden and How to Make Things Grow	Sarah Garland	Plants (Science & Nature)

White Rose Maths Resources

White Rose Maths is excited to have produced a range of work booklets for parents and children to use over the summer or during next year. These booklets can be found on Amazon for the Kindle or downloaded below. There is one booklet for each of our blocks for Y1 to Y6.

Parent resources | Maths workbooks | White Rose Education