St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School

Welcome to Year 1

Class teachers:      Mrs Pipes (Monday) and Mr Clarke (Tuesday-Friday)

Curriculum

We teach 2.5 hours of R.E. each week following To Know You More Clearly - the Religious Education Directory for Catholic schools. 

We teach a daily discrete daily phonics session following the Little Wandle - Letters and Sounds Revised programme.

We teach guided reading on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays - these books are changed weekly on a Wednesday

We teach a daily mathematics session following the WhiteRose Maths programme.

We teach English following the Pathways to Write programme.

We teach computing using the Purple Mash programme.

P.E. is taught by coaches from Carlisle United on Tuesdays and Thursday - please send your child to school wearing their P.E. kit on these days.

For the curriculum overview for Year 1, please look at the Curriculum page on the Websiste

Homework Expectations

We ask children to practise their reading as often as they can at home - at least 5 times per week for no longer than 5-10 minutes at a time.

Useful Links:

Phonics - https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

Puple Mash - https://www.purplemash.com/sch/stcuthbertsca7#/

Phonics & Reading - https://collins.co.uk/search?query=little%20wandle