Year One

Welcome to Meerkat Class

Our teacher is Mrs Hollyhomes b.hollyhomes@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk and Mrs Latter c.latter@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk. Our teaching assistant is Mrs Johnson.

Welcome to Lemur Class

Our teacher is Mrs Clayton a.clayton@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk and our teaching assistant is Mrs Hudson.

Please click here for the Year 1 'Meet the Teacher' presentation

Summer Term 2025

Welcome to our Year 1 class page!

Below is an outline of the learning that will take place this term.

Reading: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

To use phonics to decode words
To read with prosody
To answer specific questions about a text
Use images from a text to infer and to make predictions
To read tricky words

Writing:

Use capital letters, exclamation marks , question marks and full stops correctly.
Write sentences including ‘and, but, or’
Sound talk my words before writing them
Identify nouns, verbs and adjectives
Use nouns, verbs and adjectives in sentences
Using suffixes correctly and being aware of how to spell these words
To use the prefix un in words and sentences.

Phonics:

To recall the phase 5 digraphs taught this term
To decode, read and spell words with these digraphs in.
To recall the alternative spellings for digraphs and trigraphs.
To be able to decode pseudo words.

Mathematics:

Count in 2s, 5s and 10s
Make equal groups
Add equal groups
Make arrays
Share into equal groups
Halving shapes and objects
Halving a quantity
Finding a quarter of shapes and objects
Find a quarter of a quantity
Use mathematical vocabulary
Continuing to develop correct number formation.

Science:

Observe the growth of flowers.
Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.
Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.
Draw a diagram showing the different parts of a plant.
Compare and contrast what they know about different plants.

Geography :

To know if Kings Hill is a city, town or village
To name the countries in the UK.
To name the capital cities in the UK.
To know what we would find in the capital cities.
To know what a continent is.
To know what an ocean is.

Music:

Music, reinforcing a sense of beat.
Respond to musical signals and musical themes using movement, matching movements to musical gestures in the piece.
Develop awareness of duration and the ability to move slowly to music.
Create art work, drawing freely and imaginatively in response to a piece of music.

DT:

To understand how simple 3-D textile products are made, using a template to create two identical shapes.
To understand how to join fabrics using different techniques e.g. running stitch, glue, over stitch, stapling.
To explore different finishing techniques e.g. using painting, fabric crayons, stitching, sequins, buttons and ribbons.
To know and use technical vocabulary relevant to the project.

Computing:

To use a computer to write
To add and remove text on a computer
To identify that the look of text can be changed on a computer
To make careful choices when changing text
To explain why I used the tools that I chose
To compare typing on a computer to writing on paper

PSHE/RSHE

To identify members of my family and to understand there are different types of families.
To identify what being a good friend means to me.
To know who can help me in my school

RE:

To know the symbols of belonging to the Christian community.
To describe what a story about the prophet Muhammad shows about belonging to the Muslim community.
To describe how Shabbat is special to the Jewish community.

PE:

Striking and Fielding

To improve ability to throw and catch underarm and to develop ability to strike a ball with a bat.
To take part in striking and fielding games using catching, throwing and batting skills.

Athletics

To copy different ways for speed and distance.
To run in different directions and speeds.
To use the body effectively when jumping to generate height and distance.
To copy throwing techniques with some accuracy.

Year 1 have PE on Wednesday and Friday . Please can children wear their PE kit in to school on those days and earrings are to be taken out.

For more information on our remote learning offer for those of you learning at home, please click here

Click here for the reading, writing and maths expectations in Year 1

For more information on the learning taking place this term, please see the Year 1 curriculum map below.

As well as accessing our broad curriculum, our pupil offer outlines the additional opportunities your child will have whilst in Year 1

Curriculum Maps

Term 1 Curriculum Map

Term 2 Curriculum Map

Term 3 Curriculum Map

Term 4 Curriculum Map

Term 5 Curriculum Map

Term 6 Curriculum Map

Class Timetable

Lemur Class Timetable
Meerkat Class Timetable

Homework in Year 1

Daily Reading

We encourage all children to read at home daily and a note to be written in their reading record book. If the school book has been completed then please read and share any other books or comics that you have at home. These can also be record in the reading record and count towards the number of daily reads. School books will be changed on Monday and Thursday.

Phonics

Every Friday we will send home a phonics book with the sounds we have learnt during the week.
Please practise these with your child at home and see if they can come up with any other words that have these sounds in. Please ensure that the phonics books are returned by Thursday the following week so new sounds can be given.

Numbots

We suggest working on Numbots for 15 minutes a week, however, you can do more should you wish. Specific work isn't set on Numbots, Children will work through the activities at their own pace. This is an online maths game that can be accesses on tablets, ipads and desktops. Log-ins will be sent out to all children in the first week of Year 1.