Broadoak Backpack Character Values
Respect - Perseverance - Ambition - Happiness - Kindness - Love - Honesty - Co-operation - Empathy - Courage - Resilience - Determination - Enthusiasm - Peacefulness - Creativity - Acceptance - Gratitude - Confidence - Humour - Optimism -
Welcome to Year 1
Welcome to our Year One page!
Here you will find regular updates and key information throughout the year, relating to everything that is happening in Year One. Below you will find details related to our class curriculum, along with news, dates and important updates. You will also be able to see photographs and videos of the exciting activities that we have been doing in our lessons through our Twitter page - Window into the Classroom.
Year One Team
Mrs Rowland's Class
2023 - 2024
Miss Moores' Class
2023 - 2024
The Year 1 Staff Team
Teaching Team: Mrs. Rowland, Miss Moores, Mrs Cahill and Mrs Luckman
Health and Well-being Team: Coach Kim and Coach Vicki
SENDCO: Mrs. Manson / Deputy Headteacher: Miss Fairhurst / Headteacher: Mrs. Wild
Teaching Team
Health and Wellbeing Team
Key Dates and Reminders
PE: Every Wednesday - children to wear PE kits on this day.
Please bring some outdoor shoes (like wellies) for the children to change into before they go outside. They can then change their footwear to their other shoes when they go back into the classroom.
Homework: This is allocated, every Wednesday and should be completed and submitted by Monday on paper inside a homework book.
Reading:
Every Monday the children will have their phonic reading book changed. Every Friday the children will have their 'Broadoak 50 Brilliant Books' changed. We ask that all children have their reading record signed by an adult each time they have read at home. Every child will be read with by an adult in school at least once a week on their reading day. This is the same as their reading day was in reception and there is a note in your child's reading record with their reading day on.
We have a traffic light system to encourage the consistency of reading at home across the school. On your child's reading day, staff will check the reading records and record either a red, amber or green traffic light:
Red : Read 3 times or less
Amber : Read 4 times
Green : Read 5 times or more
The children's names are put into a 'Traffic Light Treat' draw on a Friday, if your child has read 5 times or more that week and their name comes out of the box, they will choose a special prize from the Traffic Light Treat box!
Parent Curriculum Meeting Presentation
Window into the Classroom - Twitter
To enable you to gain an insight into some of the learning and experiences that your child will have whilst in Year 1, we will tweet pictures, videos and work which you can use as a starting point for discussion at home with your child.
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Homework
Homework is handed out every Wednesday and will include a set of calculations, a handwriting focus and a word of the week. We will also ask children to reflect on the character values of the fortnight that we are looking at in school.
Handwriting
We use cursive font at school. Please see below the formation of letters and the letter families.
Rewards and Celebrations
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Class Dojo: Children can earn 'Dojo Points' for any number of positive reasons, such as: following our Golden Rules, demonstrating our character values, excellent attitude, effort and achievement.
Dojo Dip Winner: Weekly celebration for a child in each class who are awarded the most Dojo Points. The winner selects a book as a reward for their achievement.
Achievement Awards: One child from each class is awarded the Achievement Award to reflect the excellent learning they have demonstrated that week These certificates are awarded to the children during Friday Celebration Assembly.
Handwriting Hero: Each week, one child from each class will be recognised for producing excellent handwriting which will be celebrated in assembly and they will receive a certificate for their efforts.
Sparkle and Shine Book: Each week, a child is selected from each class who has been demonstrating our focus Broadoak Value. This is announced in the Friday Celebration Assembly and children may receive a special postcard home for their efforts.
Class Rewards: As a reward for positive behaviour, the whole class receives a treat when they have received 100 merits/points.
Reward and Celebration Day: Every half-term, each class takes part in Reward and Celebration Day - usually on the Friday before each half-term.
Star of PE: Our Health and Well-being coaches award 'Star of PE' to children who show a commitment to their physical and metal well-being.
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We encourage children to take pride in their presentation.
The Year 1 Curriculum
A bespoke curriculum for our Y1 children.
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***Our broad and balanced curriculum aims to develop in children a curiosity and fascination of the world around us. It is our intention that our children will be inquisitive about the world- locally, nationally and globally; to have a sense of awe and wonder about the physical and natural world: places, people, processes, times, changes and development.
Our curriculum is focused on the development of children’s knowledge and skills across all curriculum subjects. We know learning is defined as changes in long term memory so we ensure children build upon and recall previous learning to enable them to know more and remember more in the long term. We aim for our children to become happy, resilient and determined life-long learners who are great thinkers, problem solvers and who are fully prepared for further learning and life events ahead of them.
We prioritise the personal development of our children through our curriculum. They will learn how to take care of themselves, and be healthy -physically, emotionally and mentally, knowledge which will stay with them throughout their life.
Our Broadoak Backpack character values encourage them to celebrate differences, be respectful, have empathy, to be tolerant and kind. They learn and appreciate Fundamental British Values and the Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural dimensions of the world as part of our curriculum, to ensure they are fully prepared for life in modern Britain.
Our curriculum aspires to develop a ‘Backpack’ for life for each Broadoak child, filled with knowledge, skills, experiences, personal attributes and ultimately, an understanding about the world around them which will enable them to thrive and have the confidence and courage to achieve their best in all they do, whilst at Broadoak and beyond.
Head Bump Protocol
If children have a head injury when at school, they will be assessed by a First Aider. Should the injury be a minor bump, parents/carers will receive an email to inform them that their child has bumped their head in addition to a sticker and a first aid note being sent home. Parents/carers do not need to respond to this email – it is just another way to ensure parents and carers are informed. If a child has a head injury which the first aider believes need to be checked or the child is unwell after a head injury, a telephone call to parents/carers will be made and they will be asked to collect their child and advised to seek medical advice. In the most serious cases, medical assistance would be called to school.
Year 1 - Broadoak Backpack for Life
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Year 1 - Parent Curriculum Overview - Autumn
Year 1 - Parent Curriculum Overview - Autumn
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Phonics
In Year 1, children are grouped according to their phonic knowledge. Sessions are delivered daily and focus on the systematic and synthetic teaching of letters and their corresponding sounds. These sessions also extend to the teaching of the Year 2 spelling rules.
Supersonic Phonic Friends is the adopted scheme that is used by staff to deliver engaging and interactive daily phonic sessions.
Our Commitment to Embedding a Life Long Love of Reading to ALL children
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What is Reading at Broadoak?
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At Broadoak Primary School, we want all children to develop a lifelong love of reading that will become an integral part of their future. As a school, we believe that creating a culture of reading is a vital tool in ensuring our children are given the best life chances. Cultivating readers with a passion for a wide range of materials, will ensure that children’s love of reading will extend far beyond the classroom and allow them to build on their skills independently through a real curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
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It is our aim that all pupils-irrespective of their needs, abilities or background- will be able to:
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- Read with confidence, fluency and understanding
- Develop the pleasure of reading widely and often and appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
- Use higher order reading skills including retrieval and inference through the use of text referral, assessment of author’s intentions, justifications of their opinions and judgements and in the pursuit of critical awareness
- Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.
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We use individual reading books, author focus units, high quality key texts and Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books to engage all our children in reading.
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Reading at Home - Support for Parents
Parents play a vital part in their child's learning and progress. Below are some suggestion question stems that can be used by parents whilst completing reading at home.
Retrieval Questions
Children have to pick out information from a text in order to answer questions about it.
- What is the name of the boy that lived on the farm?
- How did he/she feel about...?
- Who did the children go to visit?
- Look at page 4. What two things did Sam find at the beach?
Inference Questions
Children have to look for clues in the text in order to answer questions about it. Use the pictures as well as the text to ask children questions about what they have read.
- How do you think Mia is feeling at the party?
- Why do you think Dan ran away from the teacher?
Reading for at least 10 minutes every day is great for your child’s happiness, wellbeing and, of course, for improving their reading and writing!
Sharing a book with a child is fun! It's a time for affection, laughing and talking together – and it can also give children a head start in life and help them become lifelong readers.
Autumn Author Focus
Autumn Key Text
Autumn Key Text
Broadoak's 50 Brilliant Books - Year 1
Mathematics
This half term we are consolidating our knowledge of place value in numbers under 100, we are focussing on differentiating between tens and ones in a 2 digit number and once we have a secure understanding of this, we will be moving on to using these skills to help us with addition and subtraction.
Year 1 Addition Strategies
We are currently working on mental addition by putting the biggest number in our heads and counting forward the smallest number to give us our answer.
Year 1 Subtraction Strategies
We are currently working on mental subtraction by putting the biggest number in our heads and counting backwards the smallest number to give us our answer.
Year 1 Multiplication Strategies
We encourage the children to draw 'lot of' numbers and then count f up how many they have got. e.g. 4 x 2 = 4 lots of 2
Year 1 Division Strategies
We encourage the children to divide using sharing circles e.g. for 12 divided by 3, we would draw 3 'sharing circles' and share 12 objects equally between them.
Our Full / Wider Curriculum Offer
Year 1 Annual Life Skills Curriculum Overview
Extra Curricular Timetable