Welcome to Year 1

Croeso i Dosbarth 1

Important information:

• Please can children bring their reading book bags in on the days written on their bags, so they can receive new books.
• Could children please wear warm coats and sensible shoes to school as a lot of our learning is outdoors.
• Can you please ensure all items of clothing, coats, hats, gloves, scarves have names on them.
• Please bring in a named water bottle, especially on warm days!
• You can follow our learning journey on Class Dojo!
• You can talk to any member of staff in the morning or after school, or email: beavenc@hwbcymru.net

Autumn term 2025

Welcome back to school! This half term, we will be looking at safe places to play! We will be visiting safe places, and looking at how we play and include others. We will be thinking about the different games we play and how we use language in our play. 
 

We will be working on our addition and subtraction and making sure we know our numbers to 100. 
We will be learning trickier sounds and putting them together to improve our independent reading and writing. 
 

In Year 1, the children are learning to be more independent. Please help the children with this by giving them opportunities to get themselves dressed, put on their own coats and learn to put their shoes on. 
 

We look forward to showing you own learning very soon! 

Summer Term 2025

Our inquiry this term is 'How do my choices affect the world and me?'. In this inquiry we will be thinking about our environment and the plants and animals that share our environment with us. 

We might find some caterpillar friends to come and join us, so we can observe and identify the changes that happen in their life cycle. We will also learn about the life cycle of other animals and plants. We will consider what we can do to make our environment and the habitats of animals and plants a better place. 

As we approach the end of the year, we will think about the changes happening in our lives as we get ready for Year 2!

Spring Term 2025

We hope you had a lovely break over Christmas! This term our inquiry is 'Where do I belong in my community?'. We will be thinking about the different buildings in our local area, and the buildings that are special to us. We will think about whether or not our special places are the same! We will be talking about the different people in our community and people who help us. We will be looking at pictures of our community over time and seeing how it has changed. 

We will share our learning by creating a piece of art to reflect our learning and where we feel we belong!

Autumn Term 2024

Welcome to Year 1! We are so excited to meet you all, and are looking forward to all the fun we are going to have this year.

Our inquiry this term is 'How do we care for ourselves and others?'

We are going to read The Colour Monster and find out about different emotions. We will think about what it is like to have a big feeling, and recognising that other people have big feelings too!

We will think about how different feelings look on our faces, and how they make our bodies feel. We will create a calm area in our classroom with different resources to help us when we have a big feeling.