Welcome to Year 1

Class Teacher: Mr Bennett

Teaching Assistant: Miss Singh

Learning Support Assistant: Miss Pell Taylor

Welcome to our Year 1 class page, where we take pride in celebrating the wonderful learning that is taking place here at St. Francis Xavier. We're extremely excited to support your child this year, enabling them flourish as individuals. 

Thank you for your support

Mr Bennett

Welcome to Year 1, I hope you have had a wonderful half term break and are ready for an exciting half term together! This half term our topic will be 'Toys through time focusing on describing key features of different toys and seeing how they have changed. 

Year 1 Autumn 2 Messages

• PE is every Monday afternoon
• Reading books and reading records to be brought to school every day (to be taught to read with staff)
• Homework is sent out every Tuesday and is due in the following Monday. 
• Please look at the class pages links for further information about curriculum/learning for our child this half term.
• Please be logging onto Numbots at home for children to practise their Maths. If you need their username and password please ask a member of staff. 

Our Learning 

We shared our special pictures of the people in our family. We explored who would be in our family and how our family love us and God loves us. 

For our first Geography lesson, we explored our school by following a map. We looked at what our school has and how it could be improved. We also explored how keys are used in maps to help us follow it. 

In Design and Technology, Year One have been challenged to create a windmill for a mouse. After watching some inspiring videos they started by creating an aesthetically pleasing outer wall for their windmills. They discussed what would attract a mouse to their design over the others. The children then challenged themselves further by cutting out their nets.