Year 1
Welcome to Year 1
The year 1 team for 2021/2022 consists of Mr Coates (1C) and Miss Bland (1D), along with our teaching assistants Miss Warner, Mrs Carty, Miss Fazackerley and Miss Tenchio. We are looking forward to lots of learning - and fun - over the coming months. Please read our curriculum newsletters and knowledge organiser to find out what the children will be learning.
A ticket around the world
This term our topic is called A ticket around the world . The children will be learning to name and to compare the seven continents. They will explore human features such as popular landmarks and physical features such as the weather, mountains and rivers.
The children will also be reading stories like The Bog Baby, The Journey Home which all include animals and people on a journey.
Year 1 homework
There are lots of exciting games, worksheets and activities all linked to the year one key objectives on the Education City website. We will set some specific activities each week for you to have a go at but you are more than welcome to explore any of the actiivities available. Your log-in is inside you school link book.
Year 1 E-Safety
Writing key objectives
Maths key objectives
Year 1 long term plan
Phonics at Milby
At Milby, we use Bug Club which is a phonics resource published by the Department for Education. It aims to build children's speaking and listening skills in their own right as well as to prepare children for learning to read by developing their phonic knowledge and skills. It sets out a detailed and systematic programme for teaching phonic skills for children starting by the age of five, with the aim of them becoming fluent readers by age seven. There are six overlapping phases in the programme; please ask your child's teacher which phase your child is on, so that you can support home learning. Enjoy exploring the suggested websites and have fun!
Phase | Phonic Knowledge and Skills |
Phase One (Nursery/Reception) | Activities are divided into seven aspects, including environmental sounds, instrumental sounds, body sounds, rhythm and rhyme, alliteration, voice sounds and finally oral blending and segmenting. |
Phase Two (Reception) up to 6 weeks | Learning 19 letters of the alphabet and one sound for each. Blending sounds together to make words. Segmenting words into their separate sounds. Beginning to read simple captions. |
| Phase Three (Reception) up to 12 weeks | The remaining 7 letters of the alphabet, one sound for each. Graphemes such as ch, oo, th representing the remaining phonemes not covered by single letters. Reading captions, sentences and questions. On completion of this phase, children will have learnt the "simple code", i.e. one grapheme for each phoneme in the English language. |
Phase Four (Reception) 4 to 6 weeks | No new grapheme-phoneme correspondences are taught in this phase. Children learn to blend and segent longer words with adjacet consonants, e.g. swim, clap, jump. |
| Phase Five (Throughout Year 1) | Now we move on to the "complex code". Children learn more graphemes for the phonemes which they already know, plus different ways of pronouncing the graphemes they already know. |
| Phase Six (Throughout Year 2 and beyond) | Working on spelling, including prefixes and suffixes, doubling and dropping letters etc. |