Welcome to Year 1!
Class 1D
Teacher - Miss Dunn
Class 1A
Teacher - Mrs Adams
Teaching Assistants - Mrs O'Shea, Mrs Leslie, Mrs Kenlay, Mrs Monk, Mrs Patel (maternity leave)
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Reminders
PE
1D: Tuesday (Indoor) Thursday (Outdoor)
1A: Tuesday (Indoor) Thursday (Outdoor)
Please come to school wearing your PE kit on these days.
Homework
Homework will be set via google classroom on a Friday and will be due the following Friday. Please see your child's reading record for logins.
Reading
Please send your child into school with their reading record, and book everyday!
Termly curriculum overview
Parent information
English
This half term we are reading:
There’s a tiger in my garden.
Monkey Puzzle
We’re going on a bear hunt
The Zoo Vet (Twinkl)
Phonics
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/
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources
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!
DT
We will be creating our very own animal shelter. We will look at some pre-existing structures and will go on to design, make and evaluate our own.
RE
In RE the children will be focussing on the key questions:
How do different religions celebrate the birth of a baby?
Maths
Multiplication and division
Fractions
Position and direction
Here are some links to different maths games:
Paint the Squares - Interactive Number Charts (topmarks.co.uk)
Coconut Multiples - Reinforce Times Tables (topmarks.co.uk)
Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)
Number Words - Early Math- Fruit Splat Game - Math Game (sheppardsoftware.com)
Science
Animals including humans (animal groups)
Topic
Geography
'Our school'
PSHE
Caring relationships
Families and people who care for me
No outsiders text: Going to the volcano
Online safety: Health, wellbeing & lifestyles
Computing
'We are TV chefs'
We will be creating steps to follow (an algorithm) for a recipe and using different features of a video camera.
Music
In music this half term our Charanga Topic is 'Your imagination'
