Welcome to the Year 1 class page 

Teacher: Miss Taylor

Teaching assistants: Mrs Taylor

In Year 1 ‘We try to follow Jesus in everything we do.’  We work together and help everyone shine and this positive attitude is reflected in our learning throughout the year. Although, we have a lot of work to do at St Margaret Mary’s we try to make our learning as fun and exciting as possible. If you ever pop into school, you'll see that we're always ready to welcome you with a smile.

Reading books: The children's books will be changed on Monday and Thursday. Children need to bring their reading book and diary into school every day. Thank you for reading daily with your children at home. 

Homework: This half term, we are asking the children to create a simple project which links to our learning in school. In RE, we are focusing on families, which we would the project link to be.

Project ideas:

• Draw and lable a picture of your family.
• Create a simple family tree using photographs or drawings. 
• Interview an older family member about their childhood memories.
• What are your favourite family games?
• Do you have any family traditions?

During the last week of half term, we will be sharing the projects with the class and and key stage.

Spellings will be sent home on a Friday and should be practised daily for a spelling quiz on the following Friday. A If you have any questions regarding homework, please do not hesitate to ask any member of the Year 1 staff. 

PE: Our PE days are every Tuesday and Friday. PE kits should be brought into school in a bag and cleary labelled with your child's name. These can be left in school for the half term. 

Uniform: Uniform should always be well-presented and it would be very helpful for staff if children could have their names on their uniform especially ties and jumpers. 

At St Margaret Mary’s RC Primary School, our children are growing to be:

Grateful for our own gifts, for the gift of other people, and for the blessings of each day; and generous with our gifts, becoming men and women for others.

Attentive to our experience and to our vocation; and discerning about the choices we make and the effects of those choices.

Compassionate towards others, near and far, especially the less fortunate; and loving by our just actions and forgiving words.

Faith-filled in ours & their beliefs and hopeful for the future.

Eloquent and truthful in what we say of ourselves, the relations between people, and the world.

Learned, finding God in all things; and wise in the ways we use our learning for the common good. Curious about everything; and active in our engagement with the world, changing what we can for the better.

Intentional in the way we live and use the resources of the earth, guided by conscience; and prophetic in the example we set to others.