Class 4
Year 1
Year 1 is a fabulous year – the progress children make both academically and socially is amazing. They really start to flourish as they build on their wonderful experiences in Early Years.
In Year 1 we enjoy exploring the world around us through our History, Geography and Science topics including learning about our village and surrounding areas, the weather, materials, animals and plants. We enjoy many opportunities to help our curriculum come to life including walks in the wood, first hand experiences, role play and drama. We begin to really foster lifelong learning skills such as being resilient, persevering, working together and problem solving.
We work hard and always try our best in a kind nurturing environment. We support and help each other and work together. We also work hard on our relationships and our main aim is to be kind and caring towards our peers, adults and classroom environment. We promote kind mouths, kind hands and kind feet.
Phonics and reading is a real driver in Year 1 and opens up a whole curriculum of opportunities and learning. Our decoding skills really accelerate over the course of the year through our daily “Little Wandle” discrete phonics sessions, and reading for pleasure and enjoyment is a huge focus with daily story times, exchanging sharing books in our class library area, and children bringing in their favourite stories from home to read and share together. Stories also form a stimulus for our topic work such as “Seasons come, Seasons go…Tree” which supports our topic about plants and trees, and the “Princess and the Pea” for our work about Queen Victoria and Castle Hill.
We are lucky to have our lovely Forest School area and Mrs Livesey will be taking children for their Forest School sessions this year, helping to develop confidence, independence, resilience and team work.
What are we learning?
Explore what ideas, topics and vocabulary our class will be exploring each half term.
Meet our teachers
I’m Miss Cryer and I am thrilled to be part of the team at Netherton Nursery & Infants. I am looking forward to a fun year full of learning and new adventures, and getting to know you and your child. I am originally from Pontefract, Wakefield. I moved to Huddersfield for University and have stayed in the area since.
I have had a passion for teaching and working with children for as long as I can remember. At college I studied Health & social care, looking at children’s learning and development. I then went on to study at Huddersfield University achieving a degree in Early Years Education. This year I have achieved my Qualified Teacher Status and my PGCE, awarded by Kirklees & Calderdale SCITT.
When I am not in the classroom, I like to spend my free time getting out in the fresh air and going for walks; I have two dogs called Eddie & Archie, they’re twins! I also work for a school holiday camp during half terms coaching children’s football.
Mrs Ramsden
Hi - I’m Mrs Ramsden and and I teach in class 4 on a Wednesday. I began my teaching career in at Netherton Infant and Nursery School in 2005 after graduating from a 4 year Teacher Training course at Edge Hill University.
During my 16 years at this school I have taught in both Early Years and Key Stage 1. My passion is for Early Years where I am currently a Reception Teacher.
I love working in Reception and feel privileged to be part of a child’s first experience at school. I care about giving children the best Early Years education and enjoy making their learning journey a happy, exciting, challenging and settled one.
I am married and a mummy to two gorgeous girls who entertain most of my waking hours. As a family we love the great outdoors and enjoy bike rides and long walks. I am a keen baker and often create tasty treats for my friends and family to enjoy.
Our Big Six - books we return to over and over
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Oi Dog
CLAIRE & KES GRAY, AND JIM FIELD
An absurdly funny book about a very bossy frog. This rhyming book full of silly animals is a joy to read and always makes us laugh
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Stuck
OLIVER JEFFERS
Floyd’s kite gets stuck in a tree and he tries ever more crazy and hilarious ways to get it down. A great story about perseverance and determination.
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The Proudest Blue
IBTIHAJ MUHAMMAD
It’s Faizah’s first day of school, and her older sister Asiya’s first day of hijab – made of a beautiful blue fabric. But not everyone sees hijab as beautiful. In the face of hurtful, confusing words, will Faizah find new ways to be strong?
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The Wizard of Oz
L. FRANK BAUM
When Dorothy is whizzed to Oz in a tornado, she lands in a place where nothing is quite as it seems. Can she find the Wizard, defeat the Wicked Witch of the West, and be granted her wish to return to Kansas?
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The Rhythm of the Rain
GRAHAME BAKER-SMITH
From the tiniest raindrop to the largest ocean, this awe-inspiring book tells the story of the water cycle. With beautiful pictures, this book is full of power, magic and nature.
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Izzy Gizmo
PIP JONES
Izzy Gizmo, a girl who LOVED to invent, carried her tool bag wherever she went in case she discovered a thing to be mended, or a gadget to tweak to make to make it more splendid.