Year 1
Miss Bate and Mrs Whittaker
Mrs Smith
Welcome to the Year 1 web page. You will find Miss Bate in 1HB and Mrs Whittaker in 1SW, with the wonderful Mrs Smith helping our fantastic children across both classes. If you have any concerns or queries, do not hesitate to get in touch.
On this page you can find:
- Class information, including spellings and home learning;
- Information about our curriculum and learning, including an overview of our current topic.
Click on our logo to find out about our Year 1 Curriculum.
In Autumn 1 in English we will be introduced to a text called ‘The Story Machine’ by Tom McLaughlin. We will use this text to explore punctuation (such as capital letters and full stops), adjectives and noun phrases. We will also begin to explore ‘Astro Girl’ by Ken Wilson-Max. A fabulous text about a little girl with big dreams. We will write a letter, a recount and a character description throughout the half term.
In Maths we will focus on numbers to 10. We will deepen our understanding of place value, number bonds, addition and subtraction and number stories within 10. Through the half term we will be introduced to concrete resources, such as tens frames, number lines and base ten to support our understanding.
In History, we will be taking a virtual trip to the seaside as we discover what the seaside was like 100 years ago, comparing this to the seaside as we know it today. We will be looking at transport to the seaside, seaside clothes and seaside entertainment and how this has changed over the years. We will also have a Punch and Judy Workshop on Tuesday 8th October, during this our children will watch a Punch and Judy show and will have the opportunity to make their own puppets.
In other curriculum areas, we will discuss landscape drawings and create our own drawings in ART; in Computing we will use beebots to display our understanding of directional language; we will explore what it means to be unique in PSHE, and in Science we will be identifying and using our 5 senses, discussing how our senses can keep us safe. As well as all of this, we will also participate in Music, RE and PE lessons across the half term.
Spellings will be posted on Monday evening to practise at home before a 'spelling quiz' on the following Monday. Current spellings can be found online on the link to the right. Maths Home Learning is set on Wednesday and due back the following Monday. We also strongly encourage the children to read at least three times a week at home, ensuring this is logged in their reading diaries.
Please make sure you have your PE Kit in school for our outdoor and sporting activities: Year 1 have PE on Monday and Tuesday afternoon. Please send your child to school in their PE kit on their PE day - all PE lessons will be outdoors (weather permitting) and you may wish to consider your child having a tracksuit for the day. Please also make sure all earrings are removed or covered with tape before school on PE days.
