Welcome to Year 1

The Team

Miss Funell
Year Lead
​Cedar Class 

Miss Woodward
Class Teacher
​Rowan Class
Sandy
1:1
Cedar Class


​Caroline
LSA 
Rowan Class

PE Days

Indoor PE

Rowan Class: Friday Morning
Cedar Class: Friday Morning

Outdoor PE

Rowan Class: Monday Afternoon
Cedar Class: Monday Afternoon

Resources

Key Dates

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  • 5th January- Children back to School
  • 5th January- Home Learning Launched
  • 1st February- Home Learning Due
  • 12th February- Home Learning Winners Shared Virtually

This Half Term

Project: Under the Sea

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use maps to locate the oceans around the UK.
  • Use a map of the world to locate the 5 oceans.
  • Use different resources such as globes, google maps and atlases to locate the countries of the UK.
  • Make observations from pictures and videos of different coastal areas.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Use google maps or a globe to locate the 5 different oceans.
  • Talk about the importance of looking after our seas and the wildlife that live in them.
  • Learn the names of the 5 different oceans.

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  •  Join sentences using conjunctions.
  • Embed our understanding of capital letters and full stops.
  • Write our own fact file.
Throughout each topic we will be continuing to use our phonic sounds to help us with our spellings and building up our independence with forming sentences.

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.
  • Play word games that help spell out CVC words.
  • Read daily with your child.
  • Practise weekly spellings set on Google Classroom using Spelling Frame.
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Maths


​This half term we will be learning to:
  • use and understand numbers up to 50
  • Compare numbers up to 50
  • Measure length and height.
  • Measure volume and weight.
  • Add and subtract numbers to 20.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise partitioning numbers into tens and ones.
  • Continue to practise number formation.
  • Use a dice to add and subtract numbers.
  • Practise representing numbers to 50 in different ways.
  • Measure household objects using a ruler or tape measure.

Science- Polar Places


​This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Test different materials to see if they are waterproof.
  • Plan our own polar expedition
  • Learn about the North and South pole and the animals that live there.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could
  • Research the differences between the North and South Pole.
  • Carry out simple tests at home to see if everyday materials are waterproof.
  • Practise making simple observations about the world and animals around us.

Computing


​Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Log onto a computer and access sites such as purple mash.
  • Use technology and the internet in a safe way and what to do if we find something that we find upsetting.
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 spellingframe.
  • Talk with your child about staying safe on the internet and how to use technology in a safe way.

Art and Design

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Weave using different types of materials including paper and adding in other materials.
  • Mix colours to create different shades.
  • Create collages using different textures.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practising weaving different paper strips.
  • Create a collage of all your favourite things.
  • Practise mixing paint to create different shades.

Music

See Spring 2.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​PSHE Continuing our Jigsaw schemes of work

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Plan to achieve our goals.
  • Recognise our goals.
  • Approach challenges in different ways.
  • Celebrate our own and our peers successes.

 Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk to your child about their dreams and goals.
  • Share some challenges you have overcome.
  • Talk to your child about faces challenges and different ways we can overcome these.
  • Remind your child of the class worry box and what they need to do in school if they are being bullied or have a worry.

RE

This half term will be will be learning to:
  • Understand how we show friendship.
  • Understand how Jesus showed friendship.
  • Value our friends and their friendship.
  • Discuss different feelings throughout bible stories that involve Jesus showing friendship.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
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To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about the different ways of showing friendship.
  • Discuss the importance of valuing friendship.

PE

This half term we will be looking at a variety of games. This will include learning to:
  • Throw and catch different sized balls.
  • Follow instructions of a game.
  • Create and play our own game.
  • Catch balls using different techniques, such as one handed.

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.
  • Practise throwing and catching different sized balls.
  • Make up your own game with your own set of rules with your child to play together.