Beech Class
Miss Littleton, Mrs Leighton, Miss Cross and Mrs Burnett welcome you to Year 1!
Miss Littleton teaches alongside Mrs Leighton. She loves to teach Maths, phonics and writing and is passionate about art and D.T too! Mrs Leighton teaches in Beech Class all day on a Monday and enjoys teaching maths, reading and Jigsaw. Mrs Burnett are Mrs Cross are our Teaching Assistants in Beech Class, they are fantastic at supporting the children with their phonics, maths, and friendships!
The children have their P.E lessons timetabled for a Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. We suggest that all P.E kits are left in school for a full half term and then taken home after this for a wash. Please ensure that your child has suitable outside clothing including jogging bottoms and a jumper.
We visit the library as a whole class every Thursday afternoon. Please make sure that your child has their library book on this day if they wish to exchange it.
In Beech Class, we recognise the importance of reading with the children. Reading not only supports their phonics but their writing and learning across the curriculum. The children are each assigned an online E-Book every Friday which they will have read three times in school with an adult during that week. Please get in touch with Miss Littleton if you are having trouble accessing these. Each of the reading sessions in school focusses on a different aspect of reading; decoding, prosody and comprehension. We then encourage parents to revisit these books daily with their child to aid their fluency and confidence.
Beech Class Learning
In Beech Class, we love to learn and have chosen some fantastic texts and topics to explore throughout the year! We will be sending home Knowledge Organisers regularly that associate with the learning and aim to support children to prepare for our spaced retrieval quizzes.
Children Learning in Beech Class
Home learning
In year 1 the children are expected to continue their learning at home each week. This includes daily online reading and a weekly phonics challenge that the children complete in their homework books. This will help to consolidate their newly learnt graphemes and tricky words.
Websites to support home learning