Class Teacher: Mrs Whythe
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Peyton
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Dawborn
Mr Clay will teach Woodpeckers on a Tuesday morning.
We hope you have great year in Year 1!
Please come and chat to the Woodpecker class team if you have any questions or worries.
Welcome to Year 1
Please see the ‘Meet the Teacher’ powerpoint we shared in our Term 1 meeting. It has lots of useful information about our expectations and our curriculum.
Please note that this will be updated after the meeting with Mrs Whythe on 17.09.25.
This is an example of our weekly timetable in Year 1. Our timetable is always subject to change and there are occasions when we may work ‘off-timetable’, for example during theme weeks or days.
PE
PE days for Woodpeckers are Tuesday and Friday.
Children should have full PE kit in school for those days and earrings should be removed.
Reading
We ask, where possible, that you listen to your children read daily.
We are sending home reading books which the children should be able to read easily. We will change their reading books on Mondays and Thursdays each week and chidden are asked to hand in their reading records and books as they arrive on those days. The books are not meant to challenge them too much as they will be linked to the learning they have already achieved and so are more for rehearsal. We suggest you ask children questions about what they are reading to ensure they understand who, what, where, when and why.
Children really benefit from reading being modelled to them and enjoy hearing stories. If you are able to, share stories whenever possible too, or encourage older siblings to read to them as it will not only promote a love of reading, but also add to their learning.
Homework
Homework will be set every Thursday and is due in the following Tuesday. The homework sheet will be posted on Seesaw and work should be completed either on Seesaw or in their homework books.
Homework will generally consist of maths, spellings and reading each week. There may also be additional tasks linked to other areas of learning. Homework will always be purposeful and we ask for your support in encouraging your children to complete their homework each week.
Logins for Seesaw, Numbots and Oxford Owl have been sent home and copies are also stuck in the front of the homework book.
Seesaw
In Woodpeckers, we want to share our work with you and notify you of any class messages so we use Seesaw as a platform for this.
We have sent out letters with information on how you can log in to your child’s page and see what they have been learning. If you haven’t received this, please let the class teacher or TA know and we will get it reissued.
Curriculum
A link to our curriculum map for this year is here:
Knowledge Organisers
Knowledge organisers are used to support learning in foundation subjects and science. They cover what the children will be learning in that subject area and help with both learning and retaining new knowledge.
Autumn Knowledge Organisers
Our Big Question for science in the first half of Autumn Term is ‘How can we group living things?’
Our Big Question for history in Autumn Term is ‘How have toys changed?’
