Holy Trinity Church School 
Year 1 Information
Welcome to our Year 1 page!
Mr Bromige is the teacher in Class 3
Miss King is the teacher in Class 4
The TAs are Mrs Elaine Jean, Mrs Corinne Cridland, Mrs Samantha Austin, and Miss Sarah O'Sullivan
Autumn Term 2025
English
Phonics: The children will complete daily phonics sessions which will be taught as a separate lesson to Writing. In the first half term the children will initially recap Phase 3 and 4 sounds introduced in Reception and progress onto Phase 5.
Writing: In writing in the first half term, we will be exploring lots of different traditional tales. After half term, we will be exploring stories written by Julia Donaldson. The children will be building on their work of simple sentence construction and will apply these skills throughout the term through labelling, story writing and writing character and setting descriptions.
Reading: In addition to opportunities for reading during daily phonics sessions, the children will participate in guided reading sessions and will be heard read by adult in school a minimum of once a week.
Please click on the link below for information regarding the phase 5 sounds the children will be taught this year during their daily phonics lessons. At phase 5, the children will learn alternative graphemes for sounds introduced in phases 2 and 3.
Mathematics
In maths, the main focus for the first term will be counting and place value. The children will follow the concrete, pictorial and abstract approach and we will follow the White Rose scheme of work to cover:
Place Value:
- Read and write numbers to 20
- Compare, order and partition numbers to 20, including using the comparison symbols < >
Add and Subtract:
-Addition and Subtraction within 10
-Number bonds and Fact Families to 10
Shape and Space
- Recognise, name and sort 3D and 2D shapes
Science
We will be exploring ‘Everyday Materials’ and linking our investigative work to a variety of traditional tales. We will also be observing seasonal change during Autumn and Winter. Also, we will be carrying out work through the year looking at seasonal change.
Art and DT
We will be using a wide range of paper art and design techniques to create collages, paper shapes and patterns. We will be making and evaluating a ‘Harvest Salad’ as part of our DT work and later in the term we will explore, make and use simple mechanisms to make fairy tale-themed products.
PE
Multi-Skills and Dance will be the focus of this term’s PE lessons. We will be following the REAL PE programme for these.
We will be working on individual challenges and working as part of team.
PSHE and Relationships
Autumn 1: Our unit this half term will be ‘How do we decide how we behave?’
Autumn 2: Our unit this half term will be ‘What can we do with money?’
Computing
In computing the children will be developing their understanding of online safety and exploring a new programme called Purple Mash. We will be learning about grouping and sorting as well as pictograms.
Religious Education
Autumn 1: Our first unit this term is ‘Creation’. We will be thinking about who made the world and learning the Christian Creation story.
Autumn 2: In preparation for Christmas, our second unit will be ‘Incarnation’ and we will be learning the Christmas Story.