Elephants Class
Class Teachers: Ms V Kalapi and Mrs G Kooner
Class Teaching Assistant: Ms S Sharma
Pandas Class
Class Teachers: Ms K Punshon
Class Teaching Assistant: Ms M Nikolajeva
Welcome to our Year 1 Classes
PE Day
Elephants’ and Panda’s PE Day is Wednesday, Please ensure that your child has the correct PE Kit, which can be found on our Uniform Page.
Contact
Year 1 email address: year1learning@holytrinity-gravesend.kent.sch.uk
To ensure that you can communicate with your child’s class teacher, we have created year-group email addresses. This email address is monitored daily Monday-Friday, with an aim to respond within 24 hours. When sending an email please include your child’s name in the subject line.
If you have any urgent information/communication please telephone or email the school office, as the administrative team can pass any urgent messages to the class teacher.
Timetable
Our timetable can be downloaded below. Here, parents and pupils have the opportunity to view the class schedule to see the day-to-day routine including the range of curriculum that is covered. We have found that children with SEND have responded well to visually seeing the structure of the day ahead.
Terms/Topic Information
Home Learning
Your child is given a spelling list each Friday as homework which links to the Little Wandle phonics scheme that we follow in the school. We expect children to practise these daily at home and the children do a spelling test every following Friday. All of these books (Big Cat books, reading record, ‘Reading for Pleasure’ book and spelling book) are due and collected on a Thursday then new homework and books are given out on a Friday.
We expect children to read their Collins Big Cat book every day at home and fill in their reading records. We also send home a ‘Reading for Pleasure’ book that adults can read to the children.
Maths homework will be set once a week on the Freckle online learning platform. Phonics homework will be sent home every Friday and needs to be completed and returned the following week.
Year 1 Basic Knowledge expectations are as follows:
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
| Year 1 | Know all the number bonds to 5. | Know the days of the week, the four seasons and the months of the year. | Know all number bonds to 10. | Know all doubles and halves to 10. | Know all addition and subtraction facts for all numbers between 0 and 10. | Count forwards and backwards in steps of 2, 5 and 10. |
Useful Parent Resources at Year 1
For further useful resources, please visit each curriculum page.