Welcome to Year 1

The Team

Mrs Dudley
Year Lead
​Cedar Class 
Mrs Eaglen
LSA
Mrs Capenter
Class Teacher
​Rowan Class
Miss Barton 
​LSA
Mrs Bray
Class Teacher 
​Rowan Class
Miss Rowe
LSA

PE Days

Rowan Class
Monday Morning 
Wednesday Afternoon 
Cedar Class 
Monday Morning 
Wednesday Afternoon

Resources

Key Dates

Monday 3rd June - Back to School
Tuesday 4th June - Class Photo Day
Wednesday 5th June - Books at Bedtime 3.30pm in the hall
WC: 10th June - Phonics Screening Check begins
Tuesday 18th June - World Music Day
Monday 24th June - Great Linford Proms
4.00pm – 5.00pm Instrumental performance and awards evening for all of the children that attend music lessons. Children will remain at school 3.15-4pm for a practise.
Wednesday 26th June - 9.30am – 11.30am Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 Sports day on the field.
Thursday 4th July - Transition Morning
Friday 5th July - 3.15pm – 5.30pm Summer Fete
​Monday 8th July - Home Learning due in
Monday 15th July - 2.30pm Rocksteady performance in the hall to parents
Wednesday 17th July - 3.30pm- 4.30pm EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 disco in the hall.
Thursday 18th July - Last Home Learning Gallery 
Friday 19th  July - Last Day of Term

Term 6

History: How have explorers changed the world?

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Explain what explorers do
  • Name equipment or transport an explorer would need.
  • Sequence four photographs from different periods of time.
  • Name important explorers (e.g. Christopher Columbus, Dame Ellen MacArthur, Matthew Henson and Mary Kingsley).
  • Identify where they travelled and write a sentence about the achievements of one explorer.
  • Select the most important events in a historical story.
  • Sequence events on a timeline and use this to retell the story.
  • Describe what they can see in a photograph.
  • Make inferences about what a person in an image could be saying and ask questions to further their understanding.
  • Recall information about past and presentation exploration.
  • Understand events in relation to the present day and compare how exploration has changed over time.
  • Describe how an explorer is significant and how they impacted events or people’s ideas.
  • Present significant people using a coat of arms.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research famous explorers such as Christopher Columbus
  • Plan your own mini exploration of a new place. 
  • Create a map for an explorer to follow. 
  • Create a collage of all the places in the world you would like to explore as a family. 

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create a traditional tale based on 'The Ghanaian Goldilocks'.
  • Understand the structure of a simple story.
  • Understand the difference between a noun and an adjective.
  • Use adjectives in our writing.
  • Use exclamations to show strong emotions. 
  • Use expanded nun phrases to describe in greater detail. 
Throughout each topic, we will be focusing on using our capital letters, full stops, using our phonic sounds to help our spellings and using simple sentence structures.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Write sentences using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.
  • Practise common exception words.
  • Practise letter formation and recognition.​ 
  • Practise phonic sounds daily.​
  • ​Practise using adjectives to describe items around the house.
  • Practise weekly spellings in our home fluency book.
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Maths


​This half term we will be learning to:
  • Learn left, right, forwards and backwards directions.
  • Count to 100.
  • Partition numbers into tens and ones.
  • Comparing numbers.
  • Ordering numbers.
  • Telling the time to the nearest hour and half hour.
  • Recognise coins.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Continue number formation practise, ensuring numbers are the correct way round.
  • Practise number bonds to 10, ensuring your child is fluent in these.
  • Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
  • Encourage your child to start telling the time.
  • Count to 100 daily.
  • Allow your child to use coins to pay in the shop.

Science- Making connections: Investigating science through stories


​This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify the typical weather associated with each season.
  • Describe animal features.
  • Recognise similarities and differences between animals in the same animal group.
  • Build an animal home with natural materials.
  • Explain the difference between carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Go for a walk on your local area and see what plants and animals you can spot.
  • Create a daily weather diary
  • Go on a bug hunt using a magnifying glass, can they identify their features?
  • Build an animal home in a local area or garden space

Computing - Introduction to data


​Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Represent animal-themed data in different ways, using objects and technology.
  • Log in and use mouse and keyboard skills to navigate the computer.
  • Represent the same data as a pictogram and a table or chart.
  • Collect data about minibeasts using a tally chart and represent their data digitally.
  • Click and drag objects to sort data using a branching database.
  • Consider the types of input that would be used to gather different forms of data when designing an invention.
To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise logging on to a computer at home with your child.
  • Allow your child time to explore technology for their learning, such as numbots and spelling frame.
  • Talk with your child about staying safe on the internet and how to use technology in a safe way.
  • Practice collecting data around the home and recording it on the computer. 

Art, Design and Technology

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Name the primary colours. 
  • Mix primary colours to make secondary colours.
  • Explore printmaking.
  • Design and create Clarice Cliff style plates.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise mixing colours at home with paint or natural substances such as flowers. 
  • Create family paintings together. 
  • Visit an art gallery and talk about the colours that have been used. 
  • Research Clarice Cliff. 

Music: By the Sea

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use our hands and body to make music.
  • Move our bodies to a piece of music.
  • Stay in time when playing an instrument.
  • Clap a simple rhythm.
  • Make appropriate instrument choices to represent a descriptive sound.
  • Control instruments and voices to make both quiet and loud sounds.
  • Create a soundscape of 'The Beach'.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise tapping to a beat.
  • ​Practise singing well known songs.
  • Practise creating and repeating different melodies. ​

RE

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Explore how Muslim's Celebrate.
  • Explore different important celebrations that Muslim's celebrate including Ramadan, Day of Ashura and Eid.

 Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Have a discussion with your child on respecting beliefs and religions.
  • Discuss different celebrations that you take part in as a family and why these are important.

​PSHE - Changing Me

This half term we will be learning:
  • Identify parts of the body boy girls and boys have.
  • Use the correct names for the parts.
  • Identify what has changed about our bodies.
  • Understand the life cycle of the human body.

Suggested activities to support learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Encourage your child to use the correct names for the female and male parts.
  • Engage in a mature discussion with your child around their changing body.
  • Ensure your child understands that their body changing is normal.

PE

This half term we will be looking at games. This will include learning to:
  • Roll a ball towards a target.
  • Catch a ball with 2 hands.
  • Strike a ball towards a target.
  • Demonstrate good control with a ball. 
  • Work cooperatively with a partner. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss the benefits of physical exercise and the effect that it has on our bodies.
  • Talk about the importance of keeping ourselves safe during physical activity.
  • Can you think of any games that you play?
  • Encourage your child to make up their own game.