Year 1
Meet the Year One team- Mr Robertson, Mrs Price, Miss Crozier, Mrs Watson, Mrs Drury.
Y1 Routines and Procedures 2026
Year One (Y1) is an exciting time when children start to learn subjects through motivating cross curricular themes.
Children make the transition from Early Years (EY) to Key Stage One (KS1). They follow the Y1 programmes of study from the Primary National Curriculum published September 2014. To support the transition from EY to Y1, children take part in provision based activities carefully planned around the curriculum document. This allows all children to adapt to new routines and expectations in a familiar environment.
Children take part in a high quality phonic lesson each day for 45 minutes; we follow the Read Write Inc phonics scheme. Children across KS1 (Y1 and Y2) are organised into smaller groups for these lessons based upon their knowledge of phonics. Progress in phonics is monitored through regular assessments by class teachers and Reading leaders.
Children nationally take the Y1 phonics screening check in June each year and results are reported to parents in their child’s Annual Report. The phonics screening check is a short, light-touch assessment to confirm whether individual children have learnt phonic decoding to an appropriate standard. Children who do not achieve the standard score are able to retake the check in Y2. Tests are administered internally by teachers.
News
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Friday 2 October 2026 Year One TOP - Sneak Peek! Over the past four weeks, Year One have been working together to decorate a collection of feathers for our Take One Picture year group masterpiece.
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Friday 25 September 2026 Year 1 Personal Pebble Inspired by our story 'I'm Mostly Happy Being Me' by Anna Milbourne, children designed and created their own friendship pebbles. Children enjoyed being creative with acrylic paint, thinking about how they could make their pebbles unique!
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Friday 18 September 2026 Year 1 PE - Team Games Year 1 enjoyed taking part in a fun partner game where they practised rolling a ball to their partner and carefully rolling it back. They worked together to develop their coordination, control and teamwork skills.
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Friday 11 September 2026 Year 1 Computing - Keyboard Letters After our first visit to the Computing room, we soon realised that ALL of the letters on the keyboard are in CAPITAL LETTERS! Year 1 quickly realised that it would be best to head back to the classroom and spend some time practising their capital letters, so that we are ready to log in to the computers next week.