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
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Forest School (wellies required)
Rowan Class: Monday Afternoon
Cedar Class: Tuesday Afternoon

Resources

Key Dates

​Monday 7th June- Summer 2 Begins
Monday 7th June- Home Learning Launched
Monday 7th June- Year 1 Topic WOW Day
Thursday 1st July- Year 1 Sports Day- AM
Monday 12th July- Home Learning Due
Wednesday 21st July- Annual School Reports Emailed Out
Thursday 22nd July- Last Day of Term

This Half Term

Project: My World, Their World!

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Compare two contrasting geographical locations.
  • Understand that people live in different ways based on their geographical location.
  • Identify physical features.
  • Identify key human features.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk to your child about their geographical location.
  • Look at a map and discuss key features together.
  • Draw your own map of your local area or garden, labelling key features.
  • Introduce the concept of similarities and differences between different locations in the world.

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write clear statements.
  •  Explain the terms ‘noun’ and ‘adjective’.
  • Begin to use expanded noun phrases to describe.
  • Understand the structure of a simple story.
Throughout each topic, we will be focussing 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 describing household objects using adjectives.
  • Practise letter formation and recognition.​ 
  • Practise phonic sounds daily.
  • Practise choosing between the correct special friends e.g. a_e and ai.
  • Practise weekly spellings set on Google Classroom using Spelling Frame.
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Maths


​This half term we will be learning to:
  • Continue our fluency and mastery understanding of place value to 50 and beyond.
  • Consolidate our understanding of tens and ones in a 2-digit number.
  • Count in 2s, 5s and 10s.
  • Order numbers to 50 and beyond.
  • Partition numbers using our understanding of place value.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s around the house, for example when pairing socks.
  • Practise counting up to 50 and recognising one more and one less.
  • Continue playing board games that support your child’s fluency in addition and subtraction.
  • Continue number formation ensuring numbers are the correct way round.

Science- Plants and Animals Where We Live


​This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify plants and animals that are local to Milton Keynes.
  • Compare our local nature to the nature in Ghana.
  • Gather and record our own data to answer key questions.
  • Use simple equipment to help us to observe closely.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • ​Talk to your child about how we take care of nature when observing.
  • Note which plants or trees you see on your walks.
  • Take a picture of different animals you see in your local area.

Computing


​Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Log onto a computer independently and access sites such as purple mash.
  • Use programs such as paint independently.
  • 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:
  • Create our own African patterns and designs.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Research African patterns and designs.
  • Have a go at creating your own patterns using different materials.
  • Encourage your child to be creative and experiment with different patterns and colours.

Music

See Autumn 1

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​PSHE Continuing our Jigsaw schemes of work

This half term we will be learning to:
  • 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.

RE

This half term we will be:
  • Empathise with Jewish children by understanding what Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur mean to them.
     

Suggested activities to support learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Have a discussion with your child on respecting beliefs and religions.
  • Talk about what means a lot to you as a family.
  • Discuss the meaning of the word 'special'.

PE

This half term we will be looking at dance. This will include learning to:
  • Play different ball games.
  • Use team work in a game.
  • Quickly change speed and direction.

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 hand eye coordination by throwing and catching.
  • Practise team working and taking turns when playing games.