Welcome to Year 1

The Team

Mrs Ashington
Year Lead
​Cedar Class 
Mr Shipton
Class Teacher
​Rowan Class 

Resources

Key Dates

Parents Evening - Tuesday 9th and Thursday 11th October
School Disco -

Please note: In Autumn Term 1 Rowan class will be taking part in PE on Thursday  and Forest schools on Monday.
Cedar class will be taking part in PE on Monday and Forest schools on Thursday.

This Half Term

Project

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Find out how shops work. How did shops look and work without modern barcodes and computers?
  • ​Find out how shopping has changed from buying individual ingredients to online shopping.
  • Comparing old kinds of shop items with modern supermarkets

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss how shops and shopping  has  changed in your life time. 
  • Visit a variety of grocery shops and discuss how they are different of similar e.g Local shop, Supermarket
  • Look at the photographs of shops through history e.g. Boots, Sainsbury's.
  • Make a shopping list and find the items in the shop.
  • Compare old photos of shops from the past with those of today.
  • Visit a local high street and compare it with old photos.
  • Visit the MK Museum and look at pictures and paintings of Milton Keynes from years ago.

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  •  Re-tell the story of Kipper's Birthday.
  •  Write a set of instructions to make a cake.
  • Use full stops, capital letters and finger spaces in our writing.
  • Plan our writing and checking it makes sense.
  • Increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Read  the story of Kipper's Birthday.
  • Look at photographs of how birthdays in your own home have been celebrated.
  • Write your own stories about birthdays.
  • Read/follow instructions and make something that could be shown in school. 

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Count to 10 both forwards and backwards from any given number.
  • Read numbers in numerals and words. 
  • Use the vocabulary of 'more than', 'less than' and 'equal to'. 
  • Read, write and interpret mathematical statements.
  • Solve simple one step addition and subtraction problems. 


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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Play maths related games e.g snakes and ladders or bingo.
  • Practise KIRFS.
  • Practise writing numbers in words and numerals.
  • Measure out ingredients from a recipe using mathematical vocabulary more or less. 

Science

This half term we will be learning :
  • About plants and how they grow. 
  • To identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.
  • Grow  and observe the growth of plant. 
  • Use scientific vocabulary to explain plants.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Walk in your local environment naming the types of trees and plants you see. 
  • ​Talk to the children about how plants are growing in your home. 
  • Observe plants, trees and flowers and draw your observations. 
  • Visit a local garden centre.

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use Purple Mash and login.
  • Use the touch pad by creating a picture using paint projects and searching Purple Mash.
  • Save, open, exit and logoff programs. 
  • Sort and Group using a Purple Mash Program
  • Create their own avatar.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise how to login and logoff.
  • Use a touch pad on a computer to create a picture using paint projects.
  • Complete a variety of the '2do' activities. 

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create pictures in the style of Wayne Thiebaud using water colours and poster paints. 
  • Observe a variety of cakes and create our own pictures.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at the paintings by Wayne Thiebaud 
  • Make sketches of cakes and food. 

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • ​To sing and project our voices.
  • To use our voices expressively.
  • Listen to music and understand how it is created using instruments.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • ​Share a variety of music with your children such as jazz,classical and pop.
  • Practise our songs.

RE & PSHE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Find out how different religions describe the making of the world.
  • In PSHE we will be studying diversity and culture. We will do this by discussing why we are special, our differences, similarities, our culture and the communities we belong to.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
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  • ​Use the WWW to find out about the different stories about the world.
  • ​Talk about our diverse community and celebrate the differences we see around us
  • Talk to your child about who they are, the religion they may follow and the communities they may belong to. 

PE

This half term in Indoor PE  we will be participating in gymnastics. We will be learning some basic balances,  moving our bodies showing control and a range of movements and beginning to use some apparatus.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​To support you child at home you could:
  • Encourage your child to be physically active for at least half an hour a day.
  • Encourage your child to practise moves and balances at home,