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Year 1
Miss Chandler teaches Year 1 on Monday and Tuesday. Mrs Eeley teaches Year 1 on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
We are very lucky to have three teaching assistants working in the class too to help us with our learning. Mrs Pullinger is with us all week and Mrs Lewis is with us Monday to Thursday. Miss Chandler is in school all week, and when she isn't teaching she continues to work across Reception class and with us in Year 1.
To contact either Miss Chandler or Mrs Eeley, please email xchandler@cashesgreen-pri.gloucs.sch.uk or
seeley@cashesgreen-pri.gloucs.sch.uk
Please contact us if you have any questions or worries. We will do our best to answer them as soon as possible.
Year 1 information - updated for Term 3
Year 1s need to bring their school reading book and reading record to school every day. This is really important even if you haven't heard you child read as we listen to the children in school and need to record this in their reading records too. We will be counting signatures for reading certificates on a Wednesday this term because of Forest School and cooking on a Thursday and these will be given out in Celebration assembly on a Friday morning. We really work on fluency which means children will read each book 3 times before it is changed.
Our PE day is on a Monday - children need to come to school on a Monday in their PE kit (including trainers). Every other day, children need to wear their school uniform. Please make sure jumpers, cardigans and fleeces are named because we have a lot of unclaimed, un-named items. If your child needs to wear slightly different clothing on a Thursday for Forest School that's fine; please try to stick to school uniform/PE kit as much as possible or bring other non-uniform items in to change.
It is really helpful if children can bring their own waterproof trousers (or puddle suit) for play times and lunch times as we do go out to play in all weather. These are hung up outside the classroom and are also used for forest school. Please send in waterproof trousers or a puddle suit if you can now that the weather is often wet.
All children MUST have wellies in school please. If they do not they have to stay on the playground to play at break time and lunch time when it gets wet. Please make sure they're named as lots of you shop in the same places!
Just like in the rest of the school, please can Year 1 bring their own water bottles to school each day, again, named please. Please try and remember your child's water bottles. Lots of children are needing to use cups.
If the free fruit/vegetables are not enough snack-wise for your child please send in something extra/instead for them to eat at break time. If you're not sure what's suitable, please ask Mrs Eeley.
Homework is currently under review but in the meantime, please read regularly at home because practice really does make perfect.
Term 3 learning information
This term we are learning all about our bodies and healthy living. We have a theme of skeletons from the Funnybones series of books.
English - nouns, verbs and adjectives, sentence demarcation and using and to join ideas
Phonics/Reading - continuing to learn the alternative vowel digraphs, plus learning some more unusual pronunciations of single letter sounds (consolidation of Chapter 4a and new learning in Chapter 4b of Phonics Shed)
Maths - adding and subtracting within 10, part whole model, writing number sentences, place value to within 20 plus continuing to practise money and telling the time
Science - humans - naming external parts of our body, using our 5 senses to experience the world and keep ourselves safe, using a table to records results and observations, making block graphs
PSHE - Keeping Safe including sleep routines, an introduction to consent (discussion about image sharing) the scientific names for private body parts, the PANTS rule (NSPCC https://www.nspcc.org.uk/advice-for-families/pants-underwear-rule) and people who can help us
Computing - control, using Beebots, writing and debugging programs
DT - cooking and nutrition, cooking a variety of healthy meals and snacks, knowing how to prepare food hygienically, understanding where food comes from and why we need to eat it
Geography - the four countries of the United Kingdom and their capital cities
PE - dance plus co-ordination and balance in basic skills
RE - What is it like to be brought up in a Muslim home in Britain?
Forest School - every Thursday
Design Technology project - December
We have been learning about mechanisms. A mechanism is a moving part. We looked at different examples of moving parts in picture books and then thought about how we could make a fun Christmas card. Mrs Eeley showed us how to make a slider and a spinner. We looked at different ways to cut and join materials. Then we all made a snowman scene to understand how the different mechanisms work and how to make them. The snowman is on a slider in a slot to move across the scene. The spinner is used to make the snowman say something or for a different picture to appear to complete the scene.
Next we came up with our design! We chose whether to have a slider, a spinner or both and we chose the theme for our picture/card as well as the colours. Then we made our pictures all by ourselves. We are really pleased with them - they're amazing. Here are a selection - we don't want to spoil the surprise when we bring them home for Christmas!
Term 2 learning information
We are so pleased with how the class have settled in to Year 1 and we really enjoyed meeting you all properly at parents' evening. Thank you for taking the time to come and see us. We have a busy term ahead but there's still plenty of time for play. During COOL time (choosing our own learning) children have free choice of how to spend their time, inside or outside the classroom in our own outdoor area.
Here is an overview of what's coming up this term:
Our book is The Three Little Pigs.
Phonics and Spelling: carrying on with consolidation of all the sounds learnt so far, especially applying this to our writing. Learning the Chapter 4a sounds. - you'll know which sounds we have done each week as the phonics homework will be linked. We are now on to split digraphs!
English - using our phonics to write simple sentences, learning how to write the capital letters, remembering a full stop at the end of each sentence, nouns, adjectives and verbs, spelling common exception words correctly and also starting to make the right grapheme choice when we are spelling (e.g. using ay at the end of a word and ai in the middle)
Maths - counting to 20, less than, greater than and equal to, addition and subtraction using the part/whole model and continuing to learn to tell the time
Science - materials and their properties
Computing - how to use a keyboard (which is very hard because it's all capital letters!)
PE - gymnastics
RE - What do Christians believe God is like?
PSHE - valuing difference
History - homes through the ages and comparing objects from old houses to the modern equivalents
Design and Technology - structures
Music - learning the songs and preparing our Christmas nativity
As always, if you've got any questions please have a chat with us or send us an email.
17th October 2025
Last week, Year 1 had a brilliant trip to Westonbirt Arboretum.
They completed the first 5 points on the Gruffalo orienteering course, reading the map for themselves and finding the way. They all managed to find the Gruffalo and his friends! They also went over the treetop walkway and had a walk around the other side of the arboretum spotting signs of autumn. They had a wonderful day!
3rd October 2025
Year One have been especially enjoying learning about living things for our science this term. We know that living things include plants and animals.
We enjoyed going on a plant hunt in the classroom and around the school grounds. We found a massive range of trees, bushes, plants and flowers - we are really lucky in our school grounds to have so much greenery! We also saw lots of signs of autumn. We've enjoyed collecting conkers from the Horse Chestnut tree and looking at the leaves changing colour on the Copper Beach by our gate. We've also been shown the conifer which won't lose its leaves.
We've also been learning the parts of a tree. We've been making playdough models and practising using the words roots, trunk, branches and leaves correctly. We're looking forward to our trip to Westonbirt next week!
Term 1 learning
We have a really exciting first term planned for all our new Year 1s. They have already settled brilliantly into their new class and have enjoyed getting stuck in with the different lessons. There's still plenty of time for play, during COOL time (choosing our own learning) children have free choice of how to spend their time, inside or outside the classroom in our own outdoor area.
Here is an overview of what's coming up this term:
Our book is The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
Phonics and Spelling: consolidation of all the sounds learnt so far, especially applying this to our writing. Learning the Chapter 4a sounds. - you'll know which sounds we have done each week as the phonics homework will be linked.
English - using our phonics to write captions, lists and simple sentences, learning how to write the capital letters, remembering a full stop at the end of each sentence, nouns and verbs
Maths - counting to 10, number facts within ten, shapes and how to tell the time (o'clock)
Science - living things - plants and animals, the seasons (linked to our trip to Westonbirt)
Computing - how to use a mouse and a trackpad - drawing pictures on the screen
PE - 'fundamentals' PE skills
RE - what it means to belong to a community
PSHE - me and my relationships (our feelings, our classroom rules, our friends)
Geography - maps and following a route, using a key (linked to our trip to Westonbirt)
Art - drawing, colours and textures
If you've got any questions please have a chat with us or send us an email.
Here is a photo of our Gruffalo collages we made with Mrs Jowers.