Year 1 2024 - 2025

Mrs Ahmad 1AA

Hello! I am Mrs Ahmad and I am overjoyed to be entering my fifth year at Woodlands Primary School. I am so privileged to have the opportunity to work in Y1 again this year; I am so excited to be your teacher!

This year is going to be such an exciting year for us all, as you head from Reception into Y1; we are going to learn about lots of things together. Our learning journey will take place using a child centred approach, enabling learning opportunities to help you reach your full potential.

When I am not in school, you can find me on fun filled days out with Mr Ahmad and my two daughters, Malaika and Alishba. We usually end up walking in North Wales or taking part in outdoor adventure sports; we enjoy climbing, bouldering, gorge walking and mountain biking. We also love camping, running, exploring mountains and especially having a BBQ by a lovely lake.

I already know lots about you from talking with your Reception class teachers.

Mrs Williams 1LW

Hello, I am Mrs Williams. This year marks the start of my 19th year teaching at Woodlands, I think I'm part of the fixtures and fittings now! I have worked across Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2, and am excited about returning to Year 1 this year. I am currently Phonics Lead in school. I am extremely passionate about Early Reading and teaching children to read and develop a love of reading - phonics first but not forever!

I have 2 daughters aged 12 (Year 8) and 8 (Year 4) who constantly keep me busy! We love to spend time together as a family exploring in the woods, going to the park or the beach or simply visiting Grandparents and Great-Grandparents. We also love reading, crafty activities (who doesn't love a bit of glitter?) and going shopping!

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We hope you have had a lovely summer holiday!

We are looking forward to an exciting year with you and have lots of great activities planned to support our creative curriculum.

Our main text for this half-term is 'Troll Swap' by Leigh Hodgkinson.

Timothy Limpet feels out of place in the troll family – he likes things to be just so, and most trolls, frankly, don’t. Tabitha Lumpit likes things to be loud, loopy and messy and she feels like a fish out of water in her very neat family.

Sometimes they wonder if their families really see them for who they are, so when Timothy and Tabitha meet on the bridge they each decide the other’s family is a better fit and swap places . . .

Mastery Targets for Autumn 1:

Combine words to make sentences
Begin to join words using and
Punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop
Use a capital letter for names of People and the personal pronoun 'I'

Maths

Mastery Targets for Autumn 2:

In Mathematics this half term we will be learning about Addition and Subtraction within 10.

We will:

Represent and use number bonds and subtraction facts within 10
Read, write and understand statements involving addition (+), subtraction (-) and equals (=)
Add and subtract one-digit numbers to 10 including zero.
Solve number problems that involve addition and subtraction

Phonics

Read Write Inc. sessions will continue to develop the children's reading skills as they learn their sounds, segmenting and blending whilst also developing their comprehension skills. If you would like to help your child to practise their phonic knowledge for reading at home, then follow the link www.ruthmiskin.com for more information.

During Science this half term, we will be leearning about the body and our five senses.

We will:

Identify, name and label body parts
Find out about the five senses
Explore the five senses

Geography

During Geography this half term we will continue to learn about where we belong... We will be building on our prior knowledge of our home, where we live and our local area and extend our learning to the wider locality.

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