Welcome to Year 1

The Team

Miss Funell
Year Lead
​Cedar Class 
Miss Woodward
Class Teacher
​Rowan Class
Sandy
1:1
Cedar Class
​Pascaline
1:1
Cedar Class

PE Days

Indoor PE

Rowan Class: Friday Morning
Cedar Class: Friday Morning

Forrest School (Wellies required)

Rowan Class: Wednesday Afternoon
Cedar Class: Tuesday Afternoon

Resources

Key Dates

  • ​Monday 12th April- Summer 1 Starts
  • Monday 12th April- Summer 1 Home Learning Launched
  • Week beginning 10th May Parent Video Introduction to Accelerated Reader
  • Week beginning 17th May Reading Parent Evening Slots
  • Monday 17th May- Home Learning Due
  • Friday 28th May- Last Day of Summer 1 term.

This Half Term

Project: The Highway Rat

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use artefacts, stories and pictures to learn about the past.
  • Ask questions about the past.
  • Describe our nations history.
  • Describe significant people from the past.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Look at pictures of the past and encourage your child to ask questions.
  • Show old pictures of the family, discuss what is different and what is the same.
  • Research key highway men and what they were.

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Rearrange words and punctuation to create a question and understand that a question should contain a question word.
  •  explain the terms ‘noun’ and ‘adjective’.
  • understand the structure of a simple story.

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 using adjectives to describe objects around the house or you find on walks.
  • Practise weekly spellings set on Google Classroom using Spelling Frame.
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Maths


​This half term we will be learning to:
  • Measure length using both standardised and non-standardised units such as cubes and cm.
  • Compare lengths.
  • Measure and compare mass.
  • Measure and compare capacity. 

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Continue to practise number formation.
  • Measure household objects using a ruler or tape measure.
  • Compare weight of objects using language such as heavier and lighter.
  • Explore capacity in household objects such as juice bottles and water bottles.

Science- On Safari


​This half term we will be learning to:​
  • Carry out simple tests to answer our questions.
  • Pack safely for a safari trip.
  • Describe and compare the common structure of a variety of common animals.
     

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss what you might take on a safari.
  • Practise making simple observations about the world and animals around us.
  • Discuss what animals you might see on a safari.
  • Encourage your child to find ways to answer their own questions.

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:
  • Make rubbings showing different textures.
  • Take different prints from objects such as hands and vegetables.
  • Print with block colours.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practising painting using hands or vegetables such as potatoes.
  • Do different tree rubbings using crayons and see what different textures and patterns can be created.
  • Encourage your child to be creative and decide their own pattern using printing.

Music

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use a steady pulse to show characters e.g. a horse or a soldier and add ostinato patterns.
  • Select a suitable pace when composing.
  • Use timbre to select and organise sounds into simple graphic scores e.g. tappers/shakers/scrapers.
  • Use our knowledge of sounds to inform listening e.g. a drum plays a soldier’s march.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise tapping to a beat.
  • Practise listening our for instruments in a piece of music.
  • Discuss the pace and beat of songs you hear on the radio.

​PSHE Continuing our Jigsaw schemes of work

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Recognise who is special to us.
  • Recognise why someone is special to us.
  • Express how we feel about somebody who is special to us.

 Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk to your child about somebody who may be special to them.
  • Talk about how we show that somebody is special to us.
  • 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 what a rest day is in Judaism. 
  • Understand how Jewish people celebrate Shabbat including key language such as Kippah (cap).
  • Compare and understand different religions and lifestyles.
  • Compare religions and personal beliefs.
  • Understand what Jewish people eat on Shabbat and why this is important to them.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
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To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk to your child about your families personal religion or beliefs.
  • Discuss with your child what you eat on special days.

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.