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

​
  • 2nd November- Home Learning Launched
  • Week beginning 2nd November -Spelling Bee Launched
  • Week beginning 9th November - Anti-Bullying week Launched 
  • 13th November- Children In Need Day
  • Week beginning 16th November- Spelling Bee Class Quiz
  • 26th November- Spelling Bee Cup
  • Week beginning 23rd November- November Bubble Birthdays Party Afternoon
  • Week beginning 1st December- Year 1 Christmas Productions Filmed
  • 7th December- Home Learning Due In
  • Week beginning 7th December- December Bubble Birthdays Party Afternoon
  • 10th December- Spelling Bee Shield
  • 11th December- Christmas Jumper Day
  • 11th December- Christmas Lunch Day
  • Week beginning 14th December- Bubble Christmas and Pantomime Week
  • 18th December- Filmed Year 1 Christmas Productions Ready to be Shared with Families.
  • 18th December- Last Day of School

This Half Term

Project: The Adventures of Bear and Queen

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Label a timeline using language such as past and present.
  • Show an understanding for the nation's history.
  • Use artefacts, pictures and stories to learn about the past.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Create a timeline of your child's life so far, including key events such as starting school.
  • Compare your childhood to your child's to see how this has changed.
  • Research Queen Elizabeth || and the Royal Family.

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write a postcard
  • Write a party invite
  • Write instructions
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 letter formation and recognition.​ 
  • Practise phonic sounds daily.
  • Play word games that help spell out CVC words.
  • Practise weekly spellings set on Google Classroom using Spelling Frame.
​

Maths


​This half term we will be learning to:
  • Add numbers within 10.
  • Subtract numbers within 10.
  • Learn fact families.
  • Use the part-whole model.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise recognising the symbols + - = and what they mean.
  • Practise number bonds to 10.
  • Practise number formation.
  • Roll a dice and ask your child to add these numbers together.
  • Play games such as snakes and ladders to reinforce counting.
  • Roll a dice and ask your child to subtract the smallest number from the biggest number.

Science- Seasonal Changes


​This half term we will be learning to:
  • Name and describe the four seasons.
  • Observe the different seasons and how this affects the weather.
  • Identify which plants grow in each different season.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Make a diary of the different weather over a week.
  • Look back at pictures and identify the weather in each.
  • Discuss the weather each morning on the way to school.
  • Create a piece of ART showing the 4 different seasons.
  • Create a wind sock and observe the wind.

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:
  • Research different artists who drew the Queen.
  • Create  textures with our pencils.
  • Use different drawing tools including charcoal and felt tip pens.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise drawing self portraits.
  • Visit local ART galleries.
  • Practise creating different shades and textures using a pencil.

Music

See Spring 1.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​PSHE Continuing our Jigsaw schemes of work

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Accept that everyone is different.
  • Give and receive compliments.
  • Understand what bullying is and what this may look like.
  • Understand what to do if we are aware of bullying taking place.

 Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Have a discussion with your child about the differences there are between everyone.
  • Remind your child that although we are different, we still treat everybody with the same respect.
  • 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

See Spring 2.




PE

This half term we will be looking at gymnastics. This will include learning to:
  • Carry equipment such as mats safely.
  • Hold our balance.
  • Master basic jumping actions.
  • Link 2 or more actions together to create a sequence.​

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.
  • Watch a clip of a gymnast- what qualities do they need to have to be successful?
  • When at the park, explore the different shapes you can make on the equipment. Can you hold a balance with your child?