St Malachy's 
Year 1
Welcome to the Year 1 class page. Miss Sharpe is our Teacher and Mrs Farooq is our Teaching Assistant. Here you will find our Curriculum Overview to see what your child will be learning over the year and how best to support them throughout.
Class Dojo
Keep updated with what we are learning in Year 1 on our Class Dojo page!
Phonics
Children have a phonics lesson every day where they learn new sounds, read words, spell words and practise reading.
Year 1 is an important year for phonics, as children will have their Phonics Screening Check in June where they will showcase their phonics skills. Here are some links to help your child with their phonics at home:
Maths
Throughout the year, children will do lots of counting, reading and writing numbers in numerals and words and using mathematical symbols such as + - and = (plus much more!) Take a look at our KS1 maths document to keep updated with what your child will be learning:
Children can also access Numbots at home to practise their maths skills. If your child needs their log in details, then please ask Miss Sharpe.
St Malachy's Mission
We will accept and respect everyone.
We will always behave sensibly and safely.
We will work hard ourselves and keep everyone learning.
We will look after ourselves, others and all the things in our school.
We will be the BEST version of ourselves.
Virtue
Respect & Courtesy
English
In our English lessons, we listen to stories, sequence stories, role play stories, label pictures and write sentences. We try our best to remember how to write a sentence using our sentence reminders:
Capital letters, finger spaces, full stops, use phonics and read it to make sure it makes sense.
Reading
Children read everyday in their phonics lessons, please do try your best to listen to your child read at home. Phonics books go out every Monday and need returning every Friday.
PE
Our PE lessons are on Wednesdays. Please send your child with a PE kit (white t-shirt, black shorts and pumps/trainers). PE kit can be left in school and taken home at the end of each half term for washing.
Forest School
Our Forest school sessions are on Tuesdays. Please send your child with forest school kit (trousers, t-shirt, hoodie/jumper, coat and wellies), as the children can get very messy when having lots of fun exploring our forest school areas!