Welcome to Year One!
Welcome to Year One!
Athens Class: Our Teacher is Miss Harvey
Barcelona Class: Our Teachers are Miss Jones and Mrs Sutton
Our Year 1 Teaching Assistants are: Miss Godfrey, Miss Pownall & Mrs Simpson
Miss Friesner and Mr Raiswell cover our classes when our teachers have planning time (PPA)
Key Information
Reading books will be changed on a Tuesday and a Friday
PE days for Autumn Term are Wednesday and Thursday. Children can come to school in their PE Kits on those days.
Homework each week will be spellings and another optional task.
Useful Websites for Year 1
https://www.teachyourmonster.org/
https://www.2simple.com/purple-mash/ - you will be given a log in for this soon.
https://wordwall.net/en-gb/community/continents
Reading
We would like the children to read at least 3 times per week. Children who do this will get a stamp and work towards reading prizes.
An adult in school will read with the children at least once per fortnight
Reading books will be changed on a Tuesday and a Friday,
if the books have been read. Please record all reading in reading diaries.
Our learning this term – Summer
Our Topic is “Terrific Toys”.
Key learning
Geography – Making Maps and using compass directions
Science – UK plants and Seasonal Changes
RE – How do we know that new babies are special?
PSHE – Belonging, friendships and people who help us
Art – Printmaking: To use line, shape and colour to explore pattern and symmetry
DT – Mechanisms: Making moving toys
Music - Under the sea: To compose a piece of music describing the sea
Computing – Online safety and coding
History – Terrific Toys: Changes in living history
PE – Object control: Developing coordination and control
Maths
Our Key learning for Summer term is
- Multiplication and Division
- Fractions
- Position and Direction
- Place value within 100
Please see the learning poster each week for more information
English
Our book for this half term is “Toys in Space” by Mini Grey.
See the Pathways to Write keys grid below for our learning in this unit.
Phonics
We will begin the Summer Term revisiting previously taught sounds on mat 2 and 3 and then we will move onto new sounds.
Spellings
At the beginning of each week your child will be sent home with spellings based on the sounds and tricky words they will learn in phonics that week.
The spellings will link to the mats above as well as “tricky words” (words which cannot be spelt using phonics).
They are sent on a Monday and then tested the following Monday.