Teacher: Mrs Phillips

Teaching Assistant: Miss Woodard and Mrs Samson (mornings), Miss Taylor (afternoons)

PPA Teacher: Mrs Tucker 

Welcome to Year One

Mrs Phillips has worked at the Rosary school for over 15 years in many different year groups. She enjoys all things science and maths whilst also having a creative side, enjoying various musical and craft activities when relaxing. Mrs Phillips is the Curriculum lead for the school, leads Early Reading and Phonics and is also the Mentor for students and new teachers.

Your child will have left the EYFS curriculum behind in reception, although some goals may need consolidation as they move through Year 1.  This will be their first year of the National Curriculum.

Our School Day

To find out details of how the Y1 pupils spend their time, please take a look at the timeline of our school day. Important times to note are arrival time (8.40am) and registration (8.50am). It is important the children are at school and settled in time for the day to begin.

Curriculum Support

The English national curriculum means children in different schools (at primary and secondary level) study the same subjects to similar standards - it's split into key stages with tests. If you would like to know more about each individual subject please visit our Curriculum Page. Each term our class topic will link in to the curriculum in a way that brings the subjects to life for the children. 

Autumn Topic

This term our topic is My World and Me. Please look at the topic web below for more information.

PE

Our PE day is on Monday. The children will need to wear the Rosary PE kit to school on this day. We also take part in 'Fitness Fridays' with the rest of the school so the children will also need to wear PE kit every Friday. Please click here to find out PE kit requirements.

Forest School

We are very lucky to be able to offer regular Forest School sessions to all our classes at the Rosary School. Our grounds are perfect to help the children connect and engage with the outdoors, and learn through active and exciting tasks and challenges such as den building, making a fire or tools, and identifying insects and birds. Y1 Forest School sessions are every three weeks on Friday.  Children will need to wear Forest School kit to school on these days, details of which can be found along with the session timetable, as links from the Forest School page.

Reading & Book Change

The children are encouraged to read their Read, Write Inc books several times each week to increase their word recognition and fluency of reading. More confident readers will also bring home a book of their choice which may contain unfamiliar or challenging words. Please write in your child's reading record each time they read with you. Our book change day is on Wednesday.

Library

We have a "Book Club" session in the library each week on a Wednesday. The children get the opportunity to share their library books with their peers. They also change their library books in this session.

English & SPaG

This term the children will be using a variety of stories to secure their understanding and use of capital letters, punctuation and finger spaces.

Phonics: Read, Write Inc

Read Write Inc. is used by more than a quarter of the UK's primary schools and is designed to create fluent readers, confident speakers and willing writers. It is the system we use to teach our KS1 children to read, spell and write and you can find out more about it here.

Below you will find various Read Write Inc documents that explore words and sounds. If you have any questions about them please speak to  Mrs Phillips.

Maths

This term the children will be focussing on numbers to 20 and beyond. Take a look at the Maths summary documents below to help understand what your child is learning.

Additional Curriculum Resources

For further resources to support your child across all subjects, please visit our Curriculum page which features links to many useful sites and apps.

Our Class Saint - St. Teresa of Calcutta

Feast Day: 5th September

Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun and missionary.

She was born in 1910 as Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu. She first lived in Skopje, which is now the capital of North Macedonia in South-East Europe.

As a child, Anjezë loved the work of Roman Catholic missionaries. She then made the decision to become a nun and dedicate her life to the Catholic church.

At the age of 18, Teresa travelled to Ireland to learn English. Following this, she began the 'novitiate' - a period of preparation where she trained to become a nun. 

After giving her vows, she changed her name to Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu.

In India, she taught at the Loreta school for 20 years before becoming headmistress. It was around this time that Teresa claimed to hear the calling of God, who told her to help the sick and needy. At the time, India was very poor. Teresa felt she must do everything possible to ease their suffering.  

Mother Teresa is mostly known for her charitable work, rather than her life as a missionary. In 1950, she established the Missionaries of Charity - an organisation that cared for people in extreme poverty. In India, lots of people were afraid of diseases like leprosy or AIDs. But, through this organisation, Mother Teresa cared for them.  The congregation raised funds to build orphanages, hospitals and homes for the ill. Volunteers from the charity ran these places, including Mother Teresa. 

In 1979, she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her charity work. In 2016, Pope Francis canonised her as a Saint in the Catholic Church.  Mother Teresa changed the lives of thousands of people through her missionary work. She founded the Missionaries of Charity, who built orphanages, hospices, and care homes. She devoted her life to helping those less fortunate.