Scotts Primary School

English

This half term we will be continuing to focus on the features of a sentence. We will be using descriptive language to describe settings and characters. We will be consolidating and learning new time conjunctions to write for different purposes. We will be introduced to the exclamation mark and learn how to use it in our writing.

Phonics

We are currently teaching phase 5. We will also be practicing pseudo words (real / fake words).

Our school has chosen Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised as our new systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme to teach early reading and spelling. 

Please click on the link below which will take you to the parent support page for phonics information: 

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

Spelling

Below are the common exception words and high frequency words for Year 1. 

Common exception words = words that cannot be decoded using phonics. 

High frequency words = words that are frequently used in books (some are decodable, some are not).

Possible task: practise reading and writing the words!

Art/DT

Computing

RE

Music

Maths

This half term in maths, we will be learning about Place Value and Addition and Subtraction

Here are some links to different maths games:

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/partPartWhole/index.html

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/addition/robot-addition

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Science

Our focus in science for this half term is all about testing materials

Topic

(Geography/History)

Our focus for this half term is famous queens

PSHE