Welcome to the Summer Term in Year 1

(2025-2026)

Mrs Franklin is the Year 1 class teacher and Mrs Warner teaches the children on Tuesday afternoons. The children are supported by Miss Sibley. This term we also have Miss Olawale joining us as a student teacher.

English:

Reading, Phonics and spelling – we will be revisiting phase 2-5 sounds including practising reading pseudo and real words ready for the Phonics Screening Check in June.  We will practise reading 2 syllable words and looking for digraphs, trigraphs and split digraphs. There are several possible sites listed in the phonics section to use to practise at home. These sites use games and are great fun for the children to help them improve their decoding skills. We will move onto spelling rules such as adding ed, ing, er or est to a word, using s or es for plurals and using un as a prefix. We will continue to hear the children read at school, usually reading twice a week to help embed decoding skills and develop comprehension skills.

Writing - The first half term’s book is ‘The secret of Black Rock’ where we will look at writing a story and postcards. The second half term is based on ‘The Last Wolf,’ where we will look at a story and recipes. In writing, we will continue to encourage the children to use their phonics to spell words, and to use a word mat to learn the spellings of tricky words. Please do help your child learn to read and spell the Year 1 Common exception words (listed below). We will focus on correct punctuation (capital letters, finger spaces, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks) when joining sentences to form longer pieces of writing. We always encourage the children to reread and edit their writing. 

Maths:

The areas of maths we will be covering this term are multiplication and division, fractions, position and direction, place value to 100 and measurement (money and time). 

Please see our timetable and curriculum news information below and make sure to check the website for any updates or events throughout the school year.

Learning at home:

Reading

Please record any reading at home in your child's reading record. We encourage the children to read at least four times a week. If they do, they will get a sticker put in their reading record. Once they have ten stickers, we congratulate them with a reading certificate.

Numbots

Please keep practising on Numbots to help your child develop their fluency in addition and subtraction. It will really help them as they encounter news maths topics.

Our week:

Wednesday: 

Library books, reading records and reading books collected in. Please make sure your child remembers to bring them to school on Wednesday each week.

Thursday:

The children will visit the library and be able to choose a new library book to go home.

Children will have a swimming lesson on a Thursday morning. For swimming the children need a named swimming costume, hat, goggles and towel.  Please practise getting ready for swimming and getting changed after swimming too as the children do need to change independently.

Friday:

The children will have PE which we hope will be outside as the weather warms up. For three weeks in the second half term we will have a football coach during these lessons.

Reading records and new books will be sent home, which will be returned to school the following Wednesday.

General Information

We hope to go on a trip to Bucks Railway Centre in June.

Please send in a named water bottle for classroom use, this is additional to the lunchtime drink. If you wish, you may also send in a named healthy snack for morning break. A piece of fruit or vegetable is provided for afternoon break.

If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to make an appointment through the office or send an email to office@cedarpark.bucks.sch.uk and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Thank you!

Mrs Franklin