Welcome to Godfrey Class Page!
Our ethos in Year 1 is to promote a love of independent learning.
The indoor and outdoor environments are carefully planned and richly resourced to allow for curriculum coverage to be achieved through a provision based approach and purposeful experiences. We aim to build upon the 'Characteristics of Effective Learning' which underpin the EYFS and provide our children with opportunities to be critical thinkers and problem solvers.
Supporting adults have a deep understanding of how to ensure children's experiences are developmentally appropriate and ensure learning is advanced by the use of careful interactions and open ended questioning.
Please see the curriculum overview attached for more details of what we will learning throughout this term.
Our homework grid for this term is also attached. We encourage you to work through the activities at your own pace and please share your learning with us on Class Dojo- we would love to see it!
In addition, it is really important that you please read daily together at home and record this in your home/school reading logs.
In our class you will find:
- Class Teachers: Mrs S Leuty & Miss G Campling (Friday)
- Teaching Assistants: Miss G Campling, Miss Gray & Mrs Murkin
Our PE/Forest School days will be: Tuesdays and Fridays.
Autumn Term – Learning Overview 2026
This term is full of exciting opportunities for Godfrey class to explore, create and develop their skills across the curriculum.
During Autumn term, Year 1 will be busy exploring lots of exciting learning across the curriculum. In Maths, we’ll be building strong number skills looking at numbers to 20 and counting forwards and backwards as well as finding one more and one less. In English, our storytelling will take us on adventures with lost and found tales inspired by Dogger, magical journeys with The Magic Paintbrush, and recounts of our own experiences, while our writing will also include fun instruction texts such as “How to Make a Silly Sandwich.”
In History, we’ll be asking big questions like “What is the past?”, discovering our family trees, investigating our local history, and learning how archaeologists piece clues together, while in Geography we’ll become map-makers, using aerial views, compass points, and symbols to draw and read maps.
Our Science learning will begin with the human body, naming body parts, exploring the five senses, and understanding sensory impairment, before moving on to everyday materials and magnets, testing their properties, investigating their uses, and carrying out simple experiments.
In RE, we’ll be reflecting on Christian beliefs about creation and asking “Who made the world?” before moving on to thinking about what Christians believe God is like. In PSHE, we’ll focus on relationships and belonging, exploring how to make others feel welcome and safe, then celebrate diversity and community by recognising similarities and differences between people, places, and lifestyles, and learning how we can care for our school and local environment.
In Art, we’ll develop our use of colour, line, and brushstrokes, inspired by artists such as Van Gogh, Monet, Rembrandt, and Klee, while in DT we’ll enjoy hands-on cooking, preparing dips and vegetables as well as baking jam tarts, comparing sweet and savoury foods and learning about recipes from different cultures. In PE, we’ll develop throwing, catching, and ball skills before moving into gymnastics, where we’ll practise travelling, turning, and rolling in different ways.
Finally, in Music, we’ll explore beat and rhythm through percussion, compose our own samba pieces, and march to a steady pulse, even creating music fit for a marching band!
Recommended Websites and Apps
A selection of websites and apps used in the classroom to support and consolidate understanding of key concepts.
- Topmarks - A website with a great selection of maths and literacy based activities for all ages. Place Value Basketball and Funky Mummy are firm favourites for the children! Free to access and a great parent's area.
- Phonics Play - A selection of free interactive games to support your child’s developing phonic knowledge (some games do require a paid subscription).
- Oxford Owl - A great website with a range of free to access e-books, support and guidance for parents, a range of maths games and much more!
- ICT Games - A selection of free to access interactive games to support home learning in all subjects.
- National Numeracy - A good website with lots of useful resources. It is designed to raise standards of numeracy across the country for both children and adults and it has specific areas for parents who want to help their children.
- Sounds of the English Phonic Code - A video which clearly models and demonstrates the pure sounds of the English language. A great resource to support parents in modelling the correct articulation of each sound.
Knowledge Organisers
Please see below the knowledge organisers for the foundation subjects.
