Shillington and Stondon Federation

Year 1 - Puffins

Mrs Peters

Welcome to Puffins class!
I am Mrs Peters and I am the Puffins class teacher. We are also very lucky to have the additional support in class from Mrs Weathermen and Miss Mansell as Teaching assistants. We work really hard in all of our learning and enjoy and celebrate our achievements with each other. We learn that it’s ok to make mistakes and that we should always keep trying. We follow the school values: Respect, Kindness, Honesty, Friendship, Perseverance and Self-Belief.

Our Daily Routine

In Year 1, we begin the day with Phonics, English and Mathematics, spending time in lessons securing our basic skills. We really enjoy learning to read in our phonics lessons. We quickly learn a new phonetic code and practice using this straight away. We spend our afternoons in subject specific lessons applying our skills in the different subject areas. We enjoy being part of assembly with the whole school, reflect on our school values and how we can show these.

Key skills are important

Our daily teaching of the core subjects build on children’s skills throughout the year. We focus on reading a great deal in Year 1 and make sure we squeeze in any opportunity to read where we can! With lots of repeated practise of our phonics, this means we become confident fluent readers and learn how to spell. We apply our Phonics to help us read and spell multiple times throughout the day and love reading to the adults in our class. We encourage children to read daily at home and to practise their phonics and number bonds.

We believe in the power of a Growth mindset

In the class we celebrate making mistakes as the children know that mistakes are the key to success. If children get stuck they use their Growth mindset to try and solve the issue and not give up. A key phase we use in school is I can’t do it…yet! Children learn the importance of perseverance and determination. We try hard to develop resilient children.

Our Year Ahead

Year 1 do work towards a Phonics Screening Check in June, where we check the children have learnt the phonetic code and can read 40 different words. For more information about the Phonics Screening Check, here is a link: Phonics screening check: information for parents - GOV.UK

How we keep our bodies and mind fit and healthy

Year 1s are very active and any opportunity we have, we will use to jump around and dance. We have 2 hours of PE a week which help us improve the fundamentals of coordination, being in control of our physical movement and improving our skills like throwing and catching.