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
My name is Mrs Kalapi and I will be teaching Year 1 Elephants. I look forward to teaching you this year and moving our learning forward. We will be learning about lots of exciting topics and have fun along the way.
I am Miss Punshon the Year 1 class teacher in Pandas. I am so excited for our year of learning together and being a part of your learning journey. I have worked in different primary schools for 6 years, but this is my first year at Holy Trinity. I am so excited to be joining your lovely school and be your teacher. Reading is my favourite thing to do and I cannot wait to share my love of books with you all. In Year 1, we plan to have an exciting year ahead full of fun, learning and growing.
PE Day
Elephants’ and Panda’s PE Day is Friday, 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
Parents will receive a Curriculum Booklet and Knowledge Organiser at the start of each term informing them about what the children will be learning. This will also be available below to download.
More Infomation about the subjects can be found on our curriculum pages.
| Term | Curriculum Booklet | Knowledge Organiser - Science | Knowledge Organiser - Geography/History | Knowledge Organiser - DT | Knowledge Organiser - Art |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Year 1 Curriculum Booklet | Seasonal Changes | What is it like here? | Making a moving storybook | Drawing |
2 | Year 1 Curriculum Booklet | Everyday Materials | How am I making history? | Making a storybook | |
3 | Term 3 Curriculum Booklet | Sensitive bodies | What is weather like in the UK? | ||
4 | Term 4 Curriculum Booklet | Comparing Animals | How Have Toys Changed? | Constructing a Windmill | |
5 | Term 5 Curriculum Booklet | Introduction to Plants | What Is It Like To Live In Shanghai? | ||
6 | Term 5 Curriculum Booklet |
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.