This Year 1 Class is taught by Miss Ballance and supported by Miss Griffiths.

In this class we aim to always try our best and be kind to each other. We love exploring, playing, communicating and collaborating and have lots of exciting activities planned this year, so watch this space!

Our Year 1 Summer term topic is…

Grow Your Own

Reading

In Base 9 we love learning to read and exploring books, stories, rhymes and songs. To help us learn, we have daily phonics sessions where we learn how to say and write our letter sounds. We also have three group reading sessions a week where we explore a decodable reading book. Our first session focuses on decoding the book, using our segmenting and blending skills. The second session explores reading with expression, and the third ensures we understand what our story is about and what all the words mean.

Once we have read this book three times we can take it home for a week, where we can read it again. The school expectation is that this book is read at home at least 4 times and recorded in our reading record. This will really help us to develop not just our fluency, but also our love for reading. Not to mention, we can also earn a raffle ticket that might win us a book!

We also pick out a ‘Reading for Pleasure’ book each week and take it home in our book bags. We would love to share this book with you at home – maybe even as a special bed time story!

Both the decodable book and ‘Reading for Pleasure’ book are changed on Fridays.

Reading for pleasure!

We place a great emphasis on reading for pleasure and are always finding opportunities within the school day to share a range of stories and texts to help nurture a love of reading.

We love to hear about the children’s favourite stories and have recently introduced a reading for pleasure book, where the children are able to choose a book they enjoy to share at home for a week.

PE – Monday and Tuesday

P.E. kits need to be worn every Monday and Tuesday.

The school P.E. kit consists of a red Randlay logo T-shirt/plain red top, black PE shorts/plain black jogging bottoms and a black logo PE hoodie/plain black sweatshirt.