Westonzoyland Primary School ‘Embrace Opportunities, Choose Kindness, Value Everyone’
Buzzard – Miss Baker (Year 1)
Buzzard Class (2026-2027) 🙂
Buzzard Class Teaching Team
Miss Baker Mrs Janene Hall
Class Teacher Class HLTA
Mon-Weds
Welcome to Buzzard Class
We’re so excited to start a brand-new school year together and can’t wait to dive into lots of exciting learning! Below, you’ll find an overview of what we’ll be covering across different subjects so you can support your child at home.
English 📚
This year, your child will explore a range of exciting stories, including ‘The Dragon Who Goes to School’, ‘How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth’, ‘The Jolly Postman’, ‘The Tiny Seed’, ‘The Tiger Who Came for Tea’, and ‘The Gruffalo’. They will practise building simple sentences, orally composing ideas, and sequencing sentences to create short stories.
Children will develop handwriting and spelling skills, use capital letters and full stops, and explore language features such as verbs, adjectives, onomatopoeia, and similes. They will also learn to join sentences with ‘and’, write questions and exclamations, and include plurals and verbs ending in -ing or -ed.
Through Level 5 phonics, children will continue learning new sounds and practising spelling patterns using games, interactive activities, and hands-on practice to become confident readers and writers.
Supporting learning at home:
Reading, writing and spelling can all be practised through everyday activities. Read together regularly, encourage your child to write simple sentences, and practise the sounds and words they are learning at school.
Each Friday, just like in Merlin, your child will bring home a mini phonics booklet linked to that week's learning, a spelling bookmark with the focus words, and a parent information sheet to help support learning at home. Just a few minutes of practice each day can make a big difference!
Maths ➗➕
This year, your child will build confidence with numbers and problem-solving through practical and fun activities. They will learn to count, read, and write numbers to 100, understand tens and ones, and compare and order numbers.
Children will practise addition and subtraction using number bonds and simple word problems, and begin exploring multiplication and division through grouping and sharing. They will also learn about fractions, measuring length, weight, and capacity, telling the time to the hour and half-hour, and recognising 2D and 3D shapes.
Children will develop skills in position, direction, and movement, and use their maths knowledge to solve problems and explain their thinking.
Supporting learning at home:
Maths is all around us! Have fun counting steps, spotting house numbers, reading clocks and practising simple mental arithmetic. Encourage your child to talk about how they worked things out and, most importantly, make learning fun!
PE & Outdoor Learning 🏃♀️🌿
PE Day: Monday – Please ensure your child comes to school wearing their PE kit. Throughout the year, children will develop a range of physical skills, including agility, balance, coordination and teamwork, through a variety of fun and engaging activities.
Outdoor Learning: Friday – Outdoor Learning will take place on Fridays every other half term, beginning in Autumn Term 2. On these days, children should come to school in their PE kit and bring a coat and suitable boots. Boots can be left at school if needed.
Reading 📖
Reading is at the heart of everything we do. Children are encouraged to read at least five times at home each week, and reading logs are checked daily. Regular reading helps children build vocabulary, improve comprehension, and develop a love of books. If reading isn’t completed at home, children will have the opportunity to catch up during break or lunchtime.
Staying in Touch ✉️
If you have any questions or concerns, please do come and see a member of staff at the door. For non-urgent matters, I kindly ask that you send an email, and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
For more details about what we’ll be learning, please take a look at our Class Curriculum Map on the school’s curriculum page.
We can’t wait for a fantastic year full of learning, creativity, and fun! 🌟
Twinkl Phonics
Twinkl Phonics is a DfE validated full systematic, synthetic phonics programme that allows us to deliver phonics teaching to children from the very beginning of learning to read and write, to full fluency.
Year One children will demonstrate their Phonic knowledge by undertaking a phonics screening in June. We will be working towards this throughout the year to ensure that children and confident and fluent in phonics.
Any questions? Please drop us a line.
In line with school guidance and staff wellbeing, emails will be responded to within 2 working days.