Year 1
Miss Bate and Mrs Whittaker
Mrs Smith
Welcome to the Year 1 web page. You will find Miss Bate in 1HB and Mrs Whittaker in 1SW, with the wonderful Mrs Smith helping our fantastic children across both classes. If you have any concerns or queries, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
On this page you can find:
- Class information, including spellings and home learning;
- Information about our curriculum and learning, including an overview of our current topic.
Click on our logo to find out about our Year 1 Curriculum.
In Unit 3 in English we will continue to explore the text ‘The adventure of Egg Box Dragon’ by Richard Adams. We will focus on writing in role and explore the features of letter writing, continuing to focus on the basic sentence structure of capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. We will begin to read the text 'Lila and the secret of rain' by David Conway and Jude Daly, through this we will develop our range of descriptive vocabulary and the ability to use expanded noun phrases in our writing. Finally, throughout our VIPERS lessons, we will explore 'Handa's surpise' written by Eileen Browne. We will use this text to develop our ability to identify vocabulary, look for inference clues, make predictions and retrieve information from the text.
In Maths we will deepen our understanding of place value, number bonds, addition and subtraction and number stories within 40. Through the half term we will continue to use concrete resources, such as tens frames, number lines and base ten to support our understanding. As well as this, we will begin to look at height and length and how both of these can be measured in various ways.
In History, we will take a trip back in time to 1666 to explore and develop an understanding of The Great Fire of London. We will first explore the term 'Stuart London' and what it was like to live during this period. We will investigate how and why the great fire started, how we know what happened during the great fire and the lessons learnt from this awful historic event. We will end our unit with a trip to Selly Manor to visit a replica of a house from 1666 and to gain an even deeper insight and secure our understanding.
In other curriculum areas, we will experiment with primary colours to mix secondary colours for a purpose in art; in Computing we will explore the features a chromebook and begin using the trackpad and keyboard for various purposes; we will investigate what it means to be healthy in PSHE, and in Science we will explore a range of materials, their properties and how they can be used to create every day objects. As well as all of this, we will also participate in Music, RE and PE lessons across the half term.
Spellings will be posted on Monday evening to practise at home before a 'spelling quiz' on the following Monday. Current spellings can be found online on the link to the right. Maths Home Learning is set on Wednesday and due back the following Monday. We also strongly encourage the children to read at least three times a week at home, ensuring this is logged in their reading diaries.
Please make sure your child comes to school in their PE Kit for our outdoor and sporting activities: Year 1 have PE on Monday and Tuesday afternoon. All PE lessons will be outdoors (weather permitting) and you may wish to consider your child having a navy tracksuit for the day. Please also make sure all earrings are removed or covered with tape before school on PE days.
