Year 1 2025 - 2026
Mrs Argent-Belcher
Welcome to the Year 1 Homepage!
The Year 1 team are Mrs Argent-Belcher, Miss Gifford and Mrs A Davies.
abigail.gifford@oldfield.cheshire.sch.uk rachel.argentbelcher@oldfield.cheshire.sch.uk
Here you will find out everything you need to know about what Year 1 are getting up to in school.
Spring Term
PE DAY: WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY
Please send your children into school in PE kit on Wednesday (Dance) and Fridays (Gymnastics this term). It is important that earrings are taken out prior to children coming to school unless they have been recently pierced in which case they should be covered with tape before they come to school. This is for everyone's safety.
The term
In English will be using the book The Lion Inside to practice or writing. Through story, role-play, converation and lots of discussion we will grow vocabulary, sentence structure and use of suffixes to develope writing skills. Punctuation continues to be a key focus of year 1 writing, in particular the use of captial letters, full stops, spaces between words and re-reading the sentence for meaning.
Please listen to your child read their banded book (brought home on a Wednesday) at least 3 times in a week. Please note the dates you have read with them in their yellow reading records. This will make a huge difference to their reading ability and it will help to promote how important reading is at home as well as in school. We thank you for your continued support with this.
In Maths, we will be doing lots of exploring of numbers to 20 including comparing numbers of objects, ordering, making number bonds, adding by counting on on and then moving on to adding numbers within 20.
In science we will be observing changes across spring and summer, including weather patterns and variations in day length. Children will be encouraged to be curious, ask questions, use simple equipment for observations and evidence and use observations to answer questions. Our science work links closely with our Geography work this term, where we explore the seasons and how these relate to the months of the year, describing the features of each of the seasons using appropriate vocabulary to describe weather patterns. Over the year we plant bulbs and observe their growth and life cycle.
We are looking forward to learning about intrepid explorers in our history topic this term.
Over the year, we will be working through the My Happy Mind modules. Over this term we will be looking at the themes of Appreciate and Relate.
We explore different breathing strategies to develop mindful techniques, all of which help children to manage their emotional states and care for their brain. We link this directly to our emotion coaching work using the Zones used last year, including Tunnel Breathing, wall pushes, counting colours, having a drink / snack and drawing / colouring.
Throughout the week we build in reflection time to appreciate how our brains helped us during the day.
In music this term, children will be developing their musical knowledge and creativity through singing, movement, and rhythm games. They will learn some songs by heart, understand what each song is about, and begin to recognise the sounds and names of different instruments. Through activities like dancing, marching, and pretending to be animals or pop stars, children will explore how music makes them feel and how they can express themselves through movement. They’ll also discover that music has a steady pulse, like a heartbeat, and learn to create rhythms using words, such as their names, favourite foods, and animals.
In RE we will be exploring Christianity, what we think about the world and how the world was made. We will look at Islam, at how and why Allah and Muhammed are important to Muslims.
In Geography we will be looking at the four seasons, exploring the months in each season and the weather patterns.
Our PE days will be Tuesday and Fridays so please send children into school in PE kits on these days.
For safety reasons please can children with long hair have their hair tied back on PE days and children with earrings take their earrings out at home before they come to school. Anyone with newly pierced ears should come to school with tape over their ear rings.
School uniform - please remember to clearly label clothing (including PE kit, hats, coats etc) so items can easily be returned to the children if they go missing. Please send your child into school every day this half term with a suitable coat for the time of year. We go outside for breaks when it is raining so the coat will need to be waterproof.
Please use the tabs above to find out more about what your child is learning about in English and in Maths and for some educational games. Also, using the links above you will also be able to access key information linked with how to contact us and a reminder of what your child needs to bring in each day.
Numbots
Numbots is an online game, and APP, which improves recall and understanding of number facts and addition and subtraction facts.
