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

Resources

Key Dates

Cedar Class PE - Monday (Outdoor) and Friday (Indoor)
Rowan Class PE - Monday (Outdoor) and Friday (Indoor)
Please send your child into school wearing their PE kit both days. Please note, Monday will be outside so trousers and jumpers will be required.​
  • Monday 7th December- Home Learning Due
  • ​Monday 2nd November- Back to School
  • Friday 13th November- Children in Need Day
  • Thursday 26th November- Flu Vaccination 
  • Friday 18th December- End of Autumn 2
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This Half Term

Project: The Adventures of Bear and The 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

Suggested activities to support learning:​
  • Research about the history of the Queen.
  • Visit one of the Queen's houses such as Windsor.

​To support your child at home you could:
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  • 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.

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

Suggested activities to support learning:​
  • Practise phonic sounds daily
  • Write instructions for your favourite sandwich or dinner.
  • Play word games that help spell out CVC words.
  • Write a postcard to a friend or a family member who you haven't seen for a while.
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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.​ 
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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

Suggested activities to support learning:
  • Play games such as snakes and ladders to reinforce counting.
  • Roll a dice and ask your child to add these numbers together.
  • Roll a dice and ask your child to subtract the smallest number from the biggest number.

​To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise recognising the symbols + - = and what they mean.
  • Practise number bonds to 10.
  • Practise number formation.

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

Suggested activities to support learning:
  • Create a piece of ART work showing the 4 different seasons.
  • Try and spot which plants you can no longer see (i.e. Sunflowers)
  • Create a wind sock and observe the wind changes.


To support your child at home you can:
  • 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.

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term, we will be learning how to log on to a computer and accessing a new program, such as purple mash or paint.
We will also discuss how to use technology and the internet in a safe way and what to do if we find something that we find upsetting.
  • Practise logging on to a computer at home.
  • Allow your child time to explore technology for their learning, such as numbots.

Art and Design

This half term we will be:
  • ​Learning about different artists who drew the Queen.
  • Exploring different textures and how these can be created.
  • Using 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 are learning about: Celebrating Differences.
This will include:
  • Accepting that everyone is different.
  • Learning how to give and receive compliments.
  • Looking at bullying, what it is and what we can do if we are being bullied or we know someone is being bullied.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home:
  • 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:
  • Looking at how to carry equipment such as mats safely.
  • Practising holding our balance.
  • Mastering basic jumping actions.
  • Linking 2 or more actions together to create a sequence.​
NB: Please ensure that children come into school wearing their full PE kit. Please make sure this is warm enough for outside, particularly during the winter months.

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?