Ash (Y1 Miss Hackleton)

🌳 Welcome to Ash Class – Year 1 🌳

Teacher: Miss Hackleton
Teaching Assistants: Miss Markham (Monday-Wednesday mornings) and Miss Dickinson (Thursday and Friday morning).

👋 A Warm Welcome from Ash Class!

Welcome to Ash Class! We are a fun, friendly, and enthusiastic group of Year 1 learners who love to explore the world around us. Our classroom is a safe, supportive space where every child is encouraged to try their best, be kind, and enjoy their learning journey.

🗓 Weekly Reminders

PE is every Tuesday – Please ensure your child comes to school in full PE kit, including suitable footwear.
Spellings- Red words- are sent at the beginning of each half term along with homework. They link to the red words that your child will read in their phonics group.
Book bags should be brought to school daily, with planners and reading books inside.
Our school target is 4+ reads at home each week – thank you for your support!
Label everything! – Please make sure all items of clothing, book bags, water bottles, and lunch boxes are clearly labelled with your child’s name.

📅 Important Dates for This Half Term

Monday 1st June – Return to School
Monday 8th June – Phonics Screen Week
Tuesday 16th June – Sports Day
Wednesday 17th June – Sports Day Reserve
Friday 19th June – INSET Day (School Closed)
Wednesday 24th June – Cleethorpes Trip
Friday 17th July – Break Up for Summer Holidays (1:15pm)

📚 What We’re Learning in Summer 2

We have an exciting half-term ahead, packed with lots of hands-on learning across the curriculum!

📗 Reading

This half-term we’ll be working super hard on our phonics skills and getting ready for the Phonics Screening Check in June. We’ll be practising lots of sounds, tricky words and speedy reading to help us become even more confident readers!

📘 Writing

Our exciting books this half-term are The Queen’s Hat and The Queen’s Handbag 👑

We’ll be:

Predicting what might happen in the story
Retelling events in different ways
Writing diary entries and speech bubbles
Creating our own versions of the story
Improving sentences and exploring fun word choices
Writing in role as characters from the story

There may even be some sneaky swans involved… 🦢

➗ Maths

In Maths we’ll be becoming mini mathematicians by learning about:

Place value
Fractions
Time
Money
Position and direction

We’ll be using practical activities, games and problem-solving to help build confidence.

🌍 Geography

Our topic is “How is where I live different?”

We’ll be exploring:
🏖️ Seaside towns
🌊 Human and physical seaside features
🧳 What we would pack for a seaside holiday
📍 The seaside town of Filey

🏃 PE

This half-term we’ll be developing our athletics skills ready for lots of active fun outside!

PE Day: Monday

🤗 PSHE

We’ll be thinking about:
✨ What helps me to be happy?
We’ll explore feelings, wellbeing and ways to look after ourselves and others.

💻 Computing

In Computing, we’ll begin Programming B: Introduction to Animation 🎬

We’ll learn how to create simple animations and bring our ideas to life using technology.

⛪ RE

We’ll be learning about:
🌎 How should we care for the world and for others, and why does it matter?

📌 Art

This half-term we’ll be creating colourful portraits inspired by local artist Pete McKee 🎨

🎺 Music

Our music theme is “By the Sea” 🌊

We’ll:

Create seaside sounds
Explore mood in music
Use instruments creatively
Make our own sea soundscapes

📚 Phonics at Home

Phonics is a really important part of your child’s early reading and writing journey. In school, we follow Read Write Inc. (RWI) to teach sounds, blending and tricky (red) words.

Practising little and often at home makes a big difference to confidence and progress 🌟

🎮 Fun Phonics Games to Play at Home

These free websites are great for quick daily practice:

👉 Phonics Play
👉 Top Marks - Phonics Games
👉 Oxford Owl (free parent account)

📖 Why Phonics Practice Is So Important

In Year 1, children will take part in the Phonics Screening Check in June.
This checks how well they can:

✔ Read real words
✔ Read “alien” (nonsense) words using phonics skills
✔ Blend sounds confidently

Regular practice helps children:

Become fluent readers
Feel confident in the screening check
Improve spelling and writing

📱 Read Write Inc. Portal – QR Codes

We will provide extra QR codes for the Read Write Inc. online portal so children can:

Watch their phonics lessons again
Practise sounds and blending at home
Read matched books online

👉 These will be sent out at the start of term, but please ask your child’s teacher if you would like any extra QR codes.

🎒 Book Bags – Home Support

Please keep an eye out in your child’s book bag for phonics supporting work and activities that can be completed at home.

These will help reinforce the sounds and skills we are learning in class.

🧺 Other Information

Library Day – Children will visit the library once a week to choose a new book.
Celebration Assembly – Every Friday we celebrate the amazing achievements of our class, including our Star of the Week!

💬 Communication

If you need to speak with me, please wait until all children have been safely dismissed at the end of the day.
Alternatively, you can send any pictures of homework or special celebrations to:
📧 chloe.harrop@brookfieldjunioracademy.org

We’re really looking forward to a brilliant term in Ash Class — full of fun, learning, and new adventures!