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, 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 2 in English we will be introduced to 3 different texts across 6 weeks. The first is called ‘We’re going to find the monster!’ by Malorie Blackman. We will use this text to explore features of a diary entry, continuing to focus on the basic sentence structure of capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. We will be introduced to ‘Astro Girl’ by Ken Wilson-Max through which we will develop the ability to use adjectives and noun phrases in our writing. Finally, we will read ‘The adventure of Egg Box Dragon’ by Richard Adams. A text that will allow us to explore the features of instructional writing, creating our own Egg Box Dragons in class too!
In Maths we will deepen our understanding of place value, number bonds, addition and subtraction and number stories within 20. 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 position and directional language and 2D and 3D shape.
In Geography, we will develop our understanding of the United Kingdom and which 4 countries make up the United Kingdom. We will discuss the capital cities within each of those countries and will find our location on a map. We will look at aerial photographs to allow us to discuss the area in which we live, identifying the human and physical features.
In other curriculum areas, we will create mechanisms, such as levers and sliders in DT; in Computing we will begin to group data and investigate how we can label different groups; we will explore our differences in PSHE, and in Science we will identify and discuss the 4 seasons and the changes within each season. 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 you have your PE Kit in school for our outdoor and sporting activities: Year 1 have PE on Monday and Tuesday afternoon. Please send your child to school in their PE kit on their PE day - all PE lessons will be outdoors (weather permitting) and you may wish to consider your child having a tracksuit for the day. Please also make sure all earrings are removed or covered with tape before school on PE days.
