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

Key Dates

​Monday 22nd February- Spring 2 starts
  • Monday 22nd February- Home Learning Launched
  • Monday 22nd March- Home Learning Due
  • Friday 26th March- End of Spring 2

Resources

This Half Term

Project: Sustainability

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Show an understanding of where our rubbish goes.
  • Show an understanding of recycling and why it is important.
  • Take care of our planet in different ways.
  • ​Understand why it is important that we look after our planet.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise and promote recycling.
  • If safe to do so, pick up litter in your local community.
  • Discuss the importance of looking after our planet and making lifestyle changes such as turning the taps off when brushing your teeth.
  • Make a poster promoting recycling.

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Choose appropiate language
  • 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.
  • 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:
  • Recognise the teen numbers.
  • Recognise numbers to 50.
  • Order numbers within 50.
  • Find one more and one less of a given number up to 50.
  • Count in 2s and 5s.

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.
  • Practise counting in 2s when pairing socks.
  • Practise counting in 5s with your hands.
  • Play snakes and ladders to practise number recognition to 50.

Science- Holiday


​This half term we will be learning to:
  • Carry out simple tests.
  • Identify objects we would pack in a suitcase for a holiday.
  • Understand how dangerous the sun can be.
  • Recognise the different types of animals we can find on the beach.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Carry out an experiment on the strength of the sun, for example placing coloured paper in the window to see how it fades.
  • Discuss with your child how different your holidays were.
  • Compare pictures of various holidays.

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:
  • How to use different materials to create a new product.
  • How to recycle products within art.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise junk modelling using any materials you have around the house.
  • Research how recycled materials are reused.

Music

See Summer 1

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

​PSHE Continuing our Jigsaw schemes of work

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Decide between healthy and unhealthy food.
  • Make healthy lifestyle choices.
  • Understand that household products can be dangerous when not used correctly.
  • Cross the road safely. 

 Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Talk about healthy foods and encourage your child to choose these as a snack.
  • Remind your child about road saftey.
  • Talk to your child about household products and explain how they can be dangerous if not used correctly and that they are not food.
  • 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 we will be:
  • Learning about the story and events of Easter.
  • Exploring why Jesus was welcomed like a king on Palm Sunday.
  • Recognising why people are seen as special.

Suggested activities to support learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Have a discussion with your child on who they think as special.
  • Discuss the Easter story, reminding them that this is what Christians believe.

PE

This half term we will be looking at dance. This will include learning to:
  • Interpret words and perform these through physical actions.
  • Create our own dance with a clear beginning, middle and end.
  • Learning to link our actions together smoothly.

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 dancer- what qualities do they need to have to be successful?
  • Practise creating different movements to different types of songs.