Welcome to Year 1 2025!

We are so excited to welcome you to Year 1!

We hope that you have all had a wonderful summer, we have definitely done well with the weather - perfect for lots of nice walks and days out! This week we have been busy making the classroom ready to welcome the children back in on Tuesday morning. We have a lovely home corner, a learning pod for our guided work, fine motor area, maths and English areas, a topic investigation zone, book corner, and IPad station, all of which will have a linked activity for our current learning.

Below we hope to answer all of the questions that might be popping into your minds as you start to get ready for Tuesday…

In Year 1 you do NOT need to bring in a pencil case, we will have all the stationary that your child may need in class for them - one less thing to think about!

You will need a water bottle - if possible labelled to help with making sure they go home with the right child.

Similarly to Reception, there will be a healthy snack provided (this will be a piece of fruit or vegetable such as carrots) however if you would like your child to bring in their own snack you are most welcome. They will be able to get these out before our morning snack time. Please make sure these are a healthy snack and remember that we are a nut free school.

Outside PE lessons are on Mondays, so you need to come in wearing your PE tracksuit.

Inside PE lessons are on Thursdays, again you can come into school wearing PE tracksuits (if warm then no need for tracksuit bottoms - just PE shorts). As the weather gets colder please make sure that PE shorts are either worn under tracksuit bottoms, or left in school or in your child’s school bag - ready to change into before the lesson

We ask for no earrings / jewellery to be worn on PE days. Unfortunately, we are unable to help take earrings out or put them back in so this must be done before school at home.

Art is on a Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Mather. Please bring an art shirt/t-shirt to keep in your trays, to cover your uniform in messy lessons.

Homework will be sent home on a Friday and should be brought back into school by the following Wednesday.

As we settle into Year 1 each child will have a reading book and reading record. We will give you more information about this shortly.

At home times, children will be collected from the Year 1 outside area next to the classroom. Morning drop off is as usual.

Please remember to label all of your uniform.

We can’t wait to see you all next week!

Should you need or want to get in contact with us, below are our email addresses:

c.bassett@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

s.hartley@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Miss Bassett, Mrs Hartley and Mrs Hennessy

Maths Mastery Parent Project final survey

Dear Parents,

Thank you for your support with the mastery for maths parents project. We loved having you all in school to share the games and approaches taken in school with the Mastering Number program. We are seeking to give the children confidence their number facts and recall them with ease. We will be running the program again next year in KS 1. This time we will invite you in the Autumn term we look forward to taking the maths further together.

Could you please now complete the final feedback survey.