1. Year 1 – Expectations in English and Maths
What do we teach in Year 1?
How do we teach it?
How can you support us at home?
How can we support you?

2. English is split into several different areas that all connect
Writing
Reading
SPaG
Phonics

3. SPaG Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar.
These are the nuts and bolts of writing.
Capital letters, full stops, finger spaces.
Conjunctions such as “and”.
Using capital letters for names, places, days of the week etc.

4. Spellings Common exception words.
Word endings such as “ing”, “ed”, “est”, “er” or adding “s”.
Days of the numbers, days of the week, months.
Spelling tests.

5. Phonics 40 phonemes already taught.
Different ways of spelling the same sound.
Blending and segmenting
Taught is groups on a daily basis

6. Task How many different ways can you think of to spell the sound “I”.
Use the whiteboards to write them down.

7. How many did you get? i as in I or hi ie as in pie
i _e as in slide or idea
igh as in bright
ig as in sign
y as in my
ye as in eye or bye
uy as in buy
ui as in guide
aye as in “aye aye”
ai as in aisle
ei as in feisty

8. Writing
Imaginative – we want the children to write in an imaginative and interesting way.
Talk about what we are going to write about before we write it.
Say the sentence before we write it.
Plan a story – for example with a story mountain.

10. Dragon Reading Guided reading – Using phonics to blend and segment
Questions –
What has happened so far?
What might happen next?
What do you think about this ?

11. Maths Number Numbers from 0 to 100 Place value Signs: Fractions
One step problems

12. Measure, shape and position
2D & 3 D shapes – names and properties
Positional language
Comparing length, weight, height

13. Home work
Reading
Spelling tests
Maths games
Mathletics

14. Any Questions?