Year 1

Teaching Staff Members

Mrs Kirk (Monday - Thursday am)

Mrs Jackson (Thursday pm and Friday)
Miss Mullen
Miss Scourfield

Headteacher's Introduction to Curriculum Morning

Audio Recording of Curriculum Morning

Autumn Term 2026

We are excited to start the new school year and our KS1 learning journey.

Our Autumn term Big Question is...

How can we make others welcome?

We will be thinking about how we can make our new F2 friends feel welcome, making them cards and teaching them playground games. As we ourselves learn about Autumn this term, we will be sharing our knowledge with our new friends by taking them on an Autumn Walk. We will be reading a range of different books to help us with our Big Question and support our learning across the curriculum.As in F2, we will continue our Think Equal journey. Each week we will have a new book that will teach us to be the very best person we can, developing empathy, acceptance and understanding. Think Equal also supports us emotionally, helping us to recognise different feelings and emotions and reinforcing strategies to help us manage them in a healthy and positive way.

Writing

Some of our Autumn Term Think equal texts.

In Year 1 Think Equal texts are used as a stimulus for writing. A scaffolded, modelled approach is used to focus in on key areas of sentence writing. More information can be found on the Curriculum page of our website. Click here

Year 1 Curriculum

Our Curriculum page on the website can help you find out more information about each of our subjects this half term. click here

For each subject there is a subject overview as well as subject policy document.

This term P.E will be on Monday.

Year 1 Reading

In Year 1, we are continuing to develop our fluency and build up our confidence by using our phonic knowledge to decode new words, whilst developing deeper comprehension skills and continue to read with growing expression.

Home reading books will be collected in on Thursday
Books will sent back home on Fridays
Daily reading is hugely beneficial for your child's learning, boosting vocabulary, imagination and confidence.
Please help us celebrate your child's progress by signing their reading record each time

Different ways to support your child in there reading can be found in the curriculum morning powerpoint, shared near bottom of this page in documents.

We will also continue to take home a book from the school library to share with you.

Phonics

In Year 1 we will continue to use Bug Club phonics to support our learning journey. The Autumn term focuses on the reviewing of F2 knowledge (Phase 2-4) before moving on to Phase 5.

Phase 5 includes learning new alternative ways to read and write sounds they already know, such as ai in snail and ay in play, along side new tricky words to further boost their reading and spelling.

If you have any questions or concerns, we will be happy to help and support you. Please send a message on Class Dojo or you can make an in-person appointment through the school office.

Brookdale Primary School