Welcome to Oak Class, Year 1

Class teacher: Miss Hunt

Teaching Team: Mrs Cooper, Mrs Sayer, Mrs Stanbridge, Mrs Deneva

Contact email: year1@obps.set.education

Class overview:

Welcome to the Oak Class page. We hope you find the information useful and informative. 

The 'Old Buck Way':

Embedded within our school ethos is the mantra: 'Ready, Respectful and Safe'. These three words are taught throughout all parts of our curriculum and are at the heart of our whole school approach. Our children are becoming confident talking about  and understanding these words and often include them in their thinking in lessons.

Our Values:

At Old Buckenham, we also have five core values which we teach our children explicitly throughout our curriculum. 

These values are:

               Respect                 Honesty                Communication              Teamwork              Resilience

Each week, we explicitly celebrate and promote one of our values in assembly as well as talking about and finding ways to model, consider, show and value these character traits.  

 

Our Curriculum:

At Old Buckenham, we understand that questioning and speculation are key learning skills and they sit at the heart of many of our subjects. There is lots of time and space to discuss learning in class, alongside offering many practical experiences and visual examples and models to support thinking. 

We follow the national curriculum and use some schemes to support consistency and quality of delivery, tailoring lessons to fit the needs of our class.

In our writing lessons we use The Write Stuff by Jane Considine to guide our teaching. This combines experience days, sentence stacking days and a clear independent writing sequence to enable children to extend their writing and continually improve.

In Maths we use White Rose Maths as a starting point. This teaches Maths topics in blocks throughout the year. We cover: place value, addition and subtraction, geometry, measurement, multiplication and division, fractions, time and money.

Science: In science we aim to encourage children's sense of wonder and curiosity in the different strands of Science. We conduct experiments in all half terms and in every topic. Our topics are: Humans and animals, plants, seasons and living things and their habitats. Many of these are repeated throughout the year to help us better understand each topic.

Autumn Term

This term we will work hard to secure and embed our phonics skills and apply them in reading and writing. We will be establishing our new class community, frequently recapping rules and routines, and learning about a range of topics including where we live, writing instructions and creating self portraits. See our newsletter for more details!

Key Dates

13/9/24 Roald Dahl Day - wear yellow.

18/9/24 Sport for Schools launch event.

23/9/24 Meet the Teacher - parents and carers are invited in at 8.30 a.m.

25/9/24 School photographer in.

30/9/24 You are Invited - parents and carers are invited to drop into class at 8.30 a.m.

3/10/24 Harvest Festival - donations are welcome.

10/10/24 Word Mental Health Day.

24/10/24 Black History Sharing - parents and carers are invited in at 2.30 p.m.

Home learning and how to help at home

The children will be reissued log in details for Boom Reader, Letterjoin and Numbots/Times Table Rockstars which will be stuck inside their home work books.

We ask you to hear children read daily, and regularly play maths games or rehearse key maths facts (our online games will support this and count as homework). Practising spellings weekly will also really support children to be successful writers. We will also set topic homework which children can select from weekly, and complete in their homework books (alternately, any homework completed on a computer can be emailed to me).

Boom Reader online reading record https://teachers.goapps.app/

Letterjoin https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/log-in.html

Times Table Rockstars https://ttrockstars.com/

Numbots https://play.numbots.com/#/intro

Statutory Spellings for Key Stage 1 (Year 1 and Year 2) are listed below.