Welcome to Year 1 2026-2027

Your Teachers are Mrs Thompson (Monday-Thursday) Mrs Barnes (Friday) and Mrs Winder (Tuesday afternoon PPA.)If you have need to contact us please email year1@anthonybek.derbyshire.sch.uk.

Important information

Book swap-Monday

New spellings-Monday

Hand in spellings-Friday

P.E- Wednesday

Our Autumn 1 topic is marvellous me. Please see below all the things we will be learning about.

Maths- Numbers up to 20, identify tens and ones to make teens numbers and adding and subtracting within 20. 

English- Writing simple sentences.

Science-The human body and our senses.

History- events that have happened in the past e.g. birthdays, Christmas being in Reception. 

Geography- Creating a map of our classroom and school and discussing where we live. 

Teachers: Miss Walker & Mrs Barnes (Friday)

Ta's: Mrs Hand, Miss Armstrong and Mrs Norman

If you have any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to contact us sarahwalker@anthonybek.derbsyhire.sch.uk or you can always speak to a member of the Year 1 team before or after school. We look forward to having a fantastic year with you! 

                                  Important Information

Our class P.E day is Wednesday. Please make sure your child has the correct kit in school on this day. Earrings should also be removed. Please see your child's diary for the correct kit. 

Reading books are changed on a Monday. Spelling books need to be handed in on a Friday to be checked.

Spring 1

Our topic this half term is fairy tales. We will be writing recount of fairy tale stories and making hand puppets of the characters in DT. In Maths we will be looking at numbers within 20 and adding and subtracting within 20. In science we will be naming materials that objects are made out of and looking at the properties of these are well as testing their properties. You can help you child by:

-Keeping up the phonics practise sent every week.

-Recognising numbers to 20 and looking at the tens and the ones in the number. 

- Adding and subtracting using objects and the number line.

-Find objects and discussing what they are made out of. 

Autumn 1

English- We will be writing all about ourselves and our families before moving onto writing about Superheroes and real life heroes. 

Maths-We will be learning to recognise numbers to ten in numbers and words, compare these numbers and find one more and one less. 

History- We will be learning about the history of ourselves and our memories. 

Geography- We will be looking at our school and locating it on the New Houghton map as well as looking at local facilities in the area. 

Science-We will be learning about our human body and our senses.