Welcome to Year 1 and 2's Class page! 

We are a mixed year class of 27 children. Our class teacher is Miss Watson and our senior teaching assistant is Mrs Kellett. We are also supported in the mornings by Miss Bodey.

Mrs Kellett works every day besides Thursdays. On Monday afternoon, Mrs Kellett teaches in our class and on Friday mornings, Miss Savage teaches our class. 

We learn through a creative curriculum and we have lots of exciting, purposeful learning opportunities that allow us to develop and grow through memorable, fun activities. 

If you have any further questions or queries, please contact Miss Watson on our Class DOJO page or via. email on fayewatson@distington-comm.cumbria.sch.uk

Key Information

• Our PE days are Monday and Thursday.
• On Monday, Chris Hodgson (Cricket Coach) teaches our PE. 
• Children are expected to read at least 5 times per week to achieve Strive 4 Five! Children receive a raffle ticket each time they read at home which they sign and enter into our weekly reading raffle! 

Please see attached our class newsletters.

Our Curriculum 

Please have a look through our curriculum map (below). This outlines our core topics for the year. 

We will keep you updated with your child's learning throughout the year via. Earwig, Class DOJO and parents meetings. 

NB: Curriculum maps are subject to change. 

Phonics (Year 1)

In Year 1, reading and phonics play a vital part in our learning. We take part in daily, adapted, Read Write Inc. sessions which allow us to become confident and competent readers and writers. 

We will be sitting the national phonics screening check in the Summer term 2025. 

Find more useful information about the phonics screening check here - Phonics Screening Test | How to Pass it & Free Downloads

Some of our Year 2 children will continue to receive phonics intervention/input to further support them on their early reading journey. 

Strive 4 Five!

In Year 1 and 2, we are all 'Reading Rockstars'. We aim to read at least 5 times per week and are rewarded for our efforts with raffle tickets. These are entered into a weekly draw and children can win some brilliant prizes! 

Most of our children will bring home 2 reading books. One book will reflect their current phonics ability, with a particular focus on independent, fluent reading, and the other an Accelerated Reading book. Accelerated Reading books are used to help develop your child's comprehension skills and your child will sit regular (informal) online 'quizzes' to assess their understanding of the story. Some Year 2 children may also bring home an additional colour/scheme banded book to further support their reading fluency and provide further opportunities for reading, promoting greater reading for pleasure through access and exposure to a wider range of texts. 

Earwig and Class DOJO.

Please access your child's Earwig and class DOJO page regularly for updates on, and photos capturing, their 

Key Stage 1 learning journey. 

If you have difficulty in accessing either of these, please let Miss Watson or the school office know and we will help you with this. 

Empowering Learning

This half term we are learning to be Team Workers. We will be using the skills we learnt last half term as 'Self Managers' to engage well in collaborative tasks, ensuring we listen to others without interrupting them before confidently sharing ideas of our own. We will develop the skills needed to consider the views of everyone in a group, understanding that these views/ideas/opinions may differ from our own and that this is ok! We will work on turn-taking and sharing skills, showing that we are confident to both lead and to be directed by others. Skills that will stand us in good stead both in school and in our wider lives beyond the classroom. 

We love taking part in 'Funky Finger' activities in Years 1 and 2!

They target our fine motor skills, building up finger strength and coordination! 

We also take part in regular 'smart moves' sessions, developing our gross motor skills through fun group games and activities! These are often incorporated into our PE sessions. 

Useful Links

• PhonicsPlay - Phonics Games 
• Nursery Rhymes and Songs - BBC Teach - Speech and Language 
• Keyboard Climber | TVOKids.com - Computing Skills
• Chrome Music Lab (chromeexperiments.com) - Creating Media (Computing)
• JIT5 (j2e.com) - Computing Skills
• KS1 English - England - BBC Bitesize - Literacy Games and Ideas
• Free eBook library | Oxford Owl from Oxford University Press - Reading Library 
• Teach Your Monster: Free Phonics, Reading and Mathematics Games - Reading/Phonics
• Maths Zone Cool Learning Games – Maths Games and Learning Activties for Fun - Maths Games
• Home | CoolMath4Kids - Maths Games