Year 1
Miss Bate and Miss Stanley
Mrs Smith
Welcome to the Year 1 web page. You will find Miss Bate in 1HB and Miss Stanley in 1JS, with the wonderful Mrs Smith helping our fantastic children across both classes. If you have any concerns or queries, please 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 Unit 6 in English, we will be introduced to a text called 'One Day on Our Blue Planet... in the Savannah' written by Ella Bailey. We will use this text to explore the animals and habitats of the African savannah, with a particular focus on lions. We will create a fact file all about lions in Africa and will learn how to organise information clearly using headings, labels and interesting facts. We will then create our own information booklet using the knowledge we have learnt throughout the unit. As part of this unit, each child will choose an animal of their own and create a fact card about that animal and its habitat. We will use all of the children's fact files to create a class book to share and enjoy together. Throughout the unit, we will continue to develop our sentence writing by focusing on capital letters, finger spaces and full stops, as well as using question marks and exclamation marks correctly.
In Maths, we will focus on numbers to 100 by using tens and ones, finding one more and one less and comparing and ordering numbers. We will also explore money by recognising British coins and notes, counting coins and making different amounts. We will learn about time by reciting the days of the week and months of the year, telling the time to the hour and half past, and thinking about activities we do at different times of the day.
In Geography, we will learn about farming and our local area. We will identify Lickey Hills and its surroundings on a map. We will learn about the human and physical features of a farm, use map-reading skills to locate features and follow routes around a farm. At the end of the unit, we will use our map-reading skills during our trip to West Midlands Safari Park.
In other curriculum areas, we will explore free standing sculptures in DT; in Computing we will use the iPads to write digitally; we will discuss 'changing me' in PSHE; in Science we will explore animals and what they need to survive. As well as all of this, we will also participate in Music, RE and PE lessons throughout unit 6.
Spellings will be posted on our webpage on Monday evening to practise at home before a spelling quiz on the following Monday. You can find the most recent spellings in the list of links below. Maths home learning is set on Wednesday and is due back the following Monday. We also strongly encourage our children to read at least three times a week at home, ensuring this is logged in their reading diaries.
Year 1 have PE on Monday and Tuesday afternoons. On PE days please send your child to school in their PE kit - navy joggers or shorts with their coloured house t-shirt, a navy zip up jacket and trainers. Please also make sure all earrings are removed or covered with tape before school on PE days.
