Year 1
Welcome to our Year 1 page
Please open our Class Curriculum Newsletter to find out what we are learning this term.
Our PE Days are Mondays and Tuesdays
Year 1 Trip to Rockingham Castle - Jul'25
This term Year 1 have enjoyed learning about Judaism in RE. They have loved making a Jewish Dreidel, a game Jewish children played during Hanukkah. They are looking forward to playing the game at home with their families.
Year 1 Picnic
VE Day
The day year 1 found dinosaur eggs under their traps
World Book Day 2025
Crazy Hair Day
Year 1 Assembly - February 2025
Florence Workshop role play afternoon
Florence Nightingale Workshop
Maths Learning in Year 1
Children In Need
Remembrance
Spirituality Day
Year 1 learn about the Eastern European tradition when St Nicholas comes and fills up children's shoes with treats on 6th December!
Phonics
At Weldon, we use one synthetic phonics programme from YR to Y2: We use Letters and Sounds to teach phonics and graphic knowledge (common exception words and tricky words). We supplement this scheme with relevant materials that match the sets and phases and have fidelity to letters and Sounds.
Using this programme, we are confident that: - grapheme/phoneme (letter/sound) correspondences are taught in a clearly defined, incremental sequence; - we introduce children very early on to a defined initial group of consonants and vowels, enabling them to read and spell as soon as possible many simple CVC words; - children are taught the highly important skill of blending phonemes, in order, all through a word to read it; - children are taught to apply the skills of segmenting words into their constituent phonemes to spell; blending and segmenting are reversible processes. - Multi-sensory activities used are interesting and engaging but firmly focused on intensifying the learning associated with its phonic goal.
The programme starts almost immediately children enter Reception, from the second week of starting school. For further info please see our Reading Intent on our Curriculum tab.
Keeping Children Safe Online
Please click on the link below to view guidance on how parents and carers can keep their children safe online.
Maths websites to support learning
Reading websites to support learning
Phonics resources to support learning
