Year 1

The staff and pupils of Year 1 would like to welcome you to our page. We hope you find it useful and enjoy browsing through the different school pages to learn about the different events which take place in our school. If you have any suggestions about how it could be improved, please contact a member a staff.

Miss Daniels (Teacher)

Mrs Oddy (Teaching Assistant)

Miss Kapragkou (Teacher)

Mrs Magnavacca (Teaching Assistant)

Mrs Osei (Teaching Assistant)

Terms 3 and 4

English

In English this term we will be:

• Finishing our traditional tales and visiting the forest school.
• Looking at a book called Hodgeheg, from which we will be writing for different purposes including instructions, road safety posters and animal poems.

Next term we will be:

• Continuing to look at using writing for different purposes through exploring fictional and non-fictional texts.

Topic: Animals

This topic includes Science, History, Geography and Music.

Science

We will be learning to:

• Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
• Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

Next term we will be learning to:

• Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
• Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

Geography

We will be learning to:

• Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans.
• Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas.

In ICT, we will:

• Be learning the rules of the i-zone.
• Be learning to understand how to use a simple computer program to create art.
• Be learning how to use computers to program.
• Be using technology to create, store, retrieve digital content.
• Be learning how we use technology outside of school.

In Read, Write, Inc, we will:

• Be learning new sounds and continuing to revise our sounds.
• Be continuing to Fred Talk new words to improve our spelling.
• Be continuing to work on sentence structure.
• Be reading a variety of texts to help our comprehension

Please support your child at home by practicing sounds with them and reading with them every night.

Miss Daniels (Teacher)

Mrs Oddy (Teaching Assistant)

Miss Kapragkou (Teacher)

Mrs Magnavacca (Teaching Assistant)

Mrs Osei (Teaching Assistant)

Terms 3 and 4

English

In English this term we will be:

• Finishing our traditional tales and visiting the forest school.
• Looking at a book called Hodgeheg, from which we will be writing for different purposes including instructions, road safety posters and animal poems.

Next term we will be:

• Continuing to look at using writing for different purposes through exploring fictional and non-fictional texts.

Topic: Animals

This topic includes Science, History, Geography and Music.

Science

We will be learning to:

• Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
• Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

Next term we will be learning to:

• Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
• Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

Geography

We will be learning to:

• Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans.
• Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas.

In ICT, we will:

• Be learning the rules of the i-zone.
• Be learning to understand how to use a simple computer program to create art.
• Be learning how to use computers to program.
• Be using technology to create, store, retrieve digital content.
• Be learning how we use technology outside of school.

In Read, Write, Inc, we will:

• Be learning new sounds and continuing to revise our sounds.
• Be continuing to Fred Talk new words to improve our spelling.
• Be continuing to work on sentence structure.
• Be reading a variety of texts to help our comprehension

Please support your child at home by practicing sounds with them and reading with them every night.

Year 1 Homework and Reading for this Term

Children will be rewarded for completion of homework and for reading at home.

Reading

We will continue to change pupil’s books every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Each pupil will have their book home for two nights. After your child has read their book the first night with you, use the second night to question your child, check understanding and to revise any words that your child struggled with. Please sign in their learning journal to say your child has read and leave a comment if you feel necessary.

*If your child does not put their book in the book box their book will not be changed. Furthermore, if your child’s learning journal is not signed it will not be changed.

Spellings

A spelling list will be stuck into your child’s learning journal every Monday. It is important you help your child learn these spellings in the week as they will be tested on them that Friday in class. We will keep a copy of your child’s results as well as informing you of any errors via their learning journal.

Homework

Homework will be sent home every Friday and should be returned for marking by the following Thursday. Homework will reflect what your children is learning in class and will be incorporate a range of subjects.

Throughout the term we may send some extra homework to enhance your child’s learning. This will always be recorded in their learning journals.

Year 1 Homework and Reading for this Term

Children will be rewarded for completion of homework and for reading at home.

Reading

We will continue to change pupil’s books every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Each pupil will have their book home for two nights. After your child has read their book the first night with you, use the second night to question your child, check understanding and to revise any words that your child struggled with. Please sign in their learning journal to say your child has read and leave a comment if you feel necessary.

*If your child does not put their book in the book box their book will not be changed. Furthermore, if your child’s learning journal is not signed it will not be changed.

Spellings

A spelling list will be stuck into your child’s learning journal every Monday. It is important you help your child learn these spellings in the week as they will be tested on them that Friday in class. We will keep a copy of your child’s results as well as informing you of any errors via their learning journal.

Homework

Homework will be sent home every Friday and should be returned for marking by the following Thursday. Homework will reflect what your children is learning in class and will be incorporate a range of subjects.

Throughout the term we may send some extra homework to enhance your child’s learning. This will always be recorded in their learning journals.