Our Team 2026-27
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Mrs E. Schofield Miss S. Bamber |
Mrs S. Bishop Miss E. Perrins |
Class Governor: Victoria Wall
The Snowflake Room
Our Classroom is named The Snowflake Room. Alongside focussed activities, we can learn in the continuous provision areas. We have a Home Corner, Reading Area, Understanding the World/Fine Motor Area, Writing Area, Mathematics Area, Sand Area and Construction Area.
The Willow Room
The Willow room is a lovely big room where the children access continuous learning through a variety of played based activities.
Year 1 Provision Area
This new space was created over the summer 2025 to enhance our Year 1 provision opporunities.
Our Outdoor Area
Summer Term Timetable 2026
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Year 1 Summer Term Timetable 2026 | [pdf 116KB] |
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Curriculum Overview 2025-26
Please select the document below.
SMSC Curriculum Overview
Please select the document below.
Year 1 Virtual Library
Year 1 Recommended Reading List
Giving children access to all varieties of literature is extremely important for their success. Reading is a key life skill which is crucial to developing language skills and access to the wider curriculum. It provides children with the chance to respond and develop personal opinions encouraging deeper thoughts and their imagination. Our aim is to develop a love and passion for reading both at home and school. We have specially selected high quality reading books for each year group. Some of these books can be found in the classroom and some are available for loan at Lees library. Encourage your child to read as many of these books as possible throughout the year.
Please select the document below to see the books we recommend.
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YEAR 1 RECOMMENDED READING LIST | [pdf 282KB] |
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Core Subject Resources
Topic Resources Summer Term Second Half 2026
Please click on the links to access resources for the topics you are learning this half term.
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Jackson Pollock |
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Seasons |
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Weather and Climate |
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Schools in the Past |
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Consolidation of Learning |
Summer Term
At St Thomas’ we value the link between home and school and we recognise parental support is vital to a child’s progress and education. This year, we have developed how our children will complete home learning tasks, using evidence informed guidance from the Education Endowment Fund. Below are a range of age-appropriate ways that you can help support your child’s learning from home, complimenting their classroom work and ensuring accelerated progress. Please encourage your child to engage in these tasks, little and often, and let us know how they have done by writing in your child’s planner. Parental support for homework can promote the self-regulation in children necessary to achieve academic goals including goal-setting, planning, perseverance, and the management of time, materials, attentiveness, and emotions. There are learning opportunities all around us so let us embrace them and develop confident, well-rounded young people, who can flourish in the modern world.
Reading
- Read a book and make up a different ending
- Read a story and act it out with family members or toys.
- Read your book somewhere different (garden, blanket, cosy corner).
- Read a book from the recommended reading list on the website
- Read your school reading book at home four times a week
Writing
- Draw and write a sentence about what you can see outside
- Find and copy a sentence about nature in a book using your neatest handwriting.
- Write the alphabet in lower-case letters outside (use chalk, paintbrush and water or a stick in the dirt)
- Write a sentence about summer using different coloured pencils
- Write a sentence using a ‘Harder to Read and Spell Word’
Maths
- Draw a number line to 50
- Share food or objects equally between 2 or 4 people.
- Jump in steps outside counting in 2s, 5s or 10s.
- Play a board game
- Roll a die and double the number
Personal Development
- Take care of something every day (plant, pet, own belongings )
- Do something kind each day (help a sibling, say something kind, sharing toys)
- Help with a small job at home (one of the Year 1 Leesfield Life Skills)
- Join a new club or try a new sport
- Spend time together as a family
Summer Term Second Half
PE is on a Wednesday and Friday and this half term we will be focusing on yoga and ball skills and multi skills. Please make sure that your child has the correct PE kit on and has both joggers and shorts for indoor/outdoor PE.
We will be visiting the library every other week on a Friday.
Please write in the planner when your child has read at home.
Discuss your child’s learning and topic work and what story books we have been reading.
Your child will need his / her planner everyday so that we are able to keep in contact and it will be signed every Friday.
Please ensure your child has a suitable waterproof coat with them every day as the children do play and learn outside in all weathers.
Please let a member of staff know in advance of any appointments so that they can be put in the register.
Year 1 Phonics Screening Check June 2027
Please click on the picture link to learn more about the Phonics Screening Checks.
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Phonics Screening Check |
Key Assessment Criteria for Year 1
Please access the documentation below about key assessment criteria in this class.
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Year-1-Common-Exception-Word-Checklist | [pdf 74KB] |
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Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria Maths - Expected BBBs | [pdf 111KB] |
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Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Expected Writing | [pdf 194KB] |
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Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Expected Reading | [pdf 130KB] |
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Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Expected Oracy | [pdf 177KB] |
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Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Exceeding Oracy | [pdf 183KB] |
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Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Exceeding Writing | [pdf 186KB] |
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Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Exceeding Reading | [pdf 182KB] |
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Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Exceeding Maths | [pdf 184KB] |
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Year 1 Key Assessment Criteria - Science Expected | [pdf 103KB] |
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