Year 1

Our Come and Read parent session will be on: 25th September 2025 @ 2.45pm.

Our Educational visit will be to The Hive on 24th March 2026.

As a Catholic School, RE and Catholic living is part of our daily practice. We pray three times a day, once in the morning when the children come in, before our lunch and before we go home at the end of the day. Children are welcome to write and bring in their own prayers which are shared with the class and displayed on our RE table. On Mondays we take part in Gospel assembly with our Key Stage. During Gospel Assembly, we listen to the Gospel, answer questions about it and reflect on what we are going to do that coming week to show we have learnt from the Gospel. After our assembly, we then go through the wondering question and discuss what we will do this week. Our Wondering Questions is put on our RE board – along with our answers - so we are able to reflect on our actions each day. A Prayer and Liturgy class prayer book is sent home each day for children to write and/or draw a prayer which they will then have the opportunity of reading in class the next day.

On a Wednesday morning, we have Prayer and Liturgy Celebration as a class worship. We observe the daily gospel, and we are invited to share our thoughts.
On a Tuesday morning we have Prayer Through Song as a whole school.
RE is taught for 2 and a half hours each week. We have one lesson which is writing-based and one which is creative. In creative lessons, we will be encouraged to use crafts/ acting/ role play/ drawing.

We want our class to be a fair and happy place. So, class rules have been created and agreed by the children and are displayed at the front of our classroom where we can always see them and be reminded of them daily.

Our class motto is: If we do not make mistakes, we do not learn.

Our class rules are:

Follow instructions first time every time
Take care of each other
Keep the classroom tidy and organised
Be respectful to ourselves and others
Never give up
Love one another
Do our best
Be happy and have fun

Children will be undertaking Maths and English lessons in the morning as well as Handwriting practice.
Phonics will take place twice every day.
The children will carry out foundation subjects in the afternoon, such as Geography, PE, Science and History.
RE takes place for two and a half hours every week. This includes half an hour of RSE.
The children will alternate learning DT and Art.
PSHE and Wellbeing lessons and assemblies will also take place each half-term.

Books will be changed on a Monday and a Friday. Children will be given 1 phase and 1 reading for pleasure book for the week. Children should bring their reading books in every day, so that one-to-one reading with an adult can take place.

Homework is set on a Friday on Signposts and should be completed and returned to the teacher in class before the following Wednesday. Homework includes weekly spellings which should be written into sentences and a weekly maths sheet focusing on key skills. In addition, your child should read their reading book each night for at least 10 minutes. This should then be recorded in their reading record.

Please click on the document below to access Class 1 Recommended Reading Lists.