Welcome to Key Stage 1
We are very busy in Year 1 and 2, learning many new sounds and spellings in our daily phonics lessons to support reading; lots of new concepts in Maths and learning to structure our sentences in exciting ways in English. We have many practical sessions during the week to help us become independent in our learning.
There are many websites we use in school that you can access here:
FREE Online Books and Phonics Resources - please message your child's teacher for login details.
Use this link to find a huge library of eBooks and phonics resources to support reading at home.
Get Epic - access thousands of online non-fiction and fiction books and audio books as well as educational videos.
Maths:
Numbots - all children have a log in for this website which helps to embed the children's understanding and recall of key number facts.
Home Learning and Spelling
Year 1 and 2 Home Learning
Home Learning
It is evident that when children practise key skills at home, they make better progress than those who do not.
Regularly reading aloud to an adult is vitally important as it helps to develop your child's fluency and pace as well as their comprehension, understanding of vocabulary and ability to spell. It also helps to develop a lifelong love of reading and increases the amount of text that they can read which helps to prepare them for the longer texts encountered in Key Stage 2.
Please support your child and create a routine at home that incorporates home learning - house points are awarded each week for regular home reading and learning spellings.
- Daily reading to support the learning of phonics sounds and tricky words being taught in class.
- Weekly age-related spellings - these are tested each Friday. Optional spelling challenges are also set on Spelling shed weekly.
- A written maths homework once a week.
- Numbots - optional online game.
Reading Books
The children are given a home reading book (or two) based on the level at which they are working in their Read, Write Inc phonics lessons. Home readers are changed each week. Please complete the reading diary daily and make it clear when a book has been read. At the start of the books there are focus sounds and words (green story words and red tricky words) which the children need to practise each time they read - before starting to read the fiction / non-fiction text. Please look for these words and sounds throughout the book and ensure that your child practises them until they can smooth read them - without sounding them out. When reading, children should be able to read the majority of the words and understand what they have read. At the back of the book there are questions for the children to answer by returning to the relevant pages in the book and using their 'fastest finger' to find the answer by skimming and scanning the text.
Many thanks for your continued support - it really is very much appreciated.
The Key Stage 1 team
Communication
The school Class Dojo app is the main method of communication between school and home. Please check in on the class story on a regular basis.
If you are not signed up, please get in touch with your child's class teacher. The link below will help if you are new to the app: