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, 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 5 in English we will continue to explore the text ‘Rapunzel’ by Bethan Woolvin. This is a fabulous text that tells a take on the traditional fairytale but not as we all know it. Alongside this text we will explore the features of a diary entry and use our friend 'Uncle -ed' to change words to the past participle, allowing us to write a diary entry from the role of Rapunzel. We will focus on adding detail to our writing using time conjunctions, adverbs and noun phrases.
In Maths we will begin to learn about time. We will have the opportunity to explore analogue clocks, turning the hands on the clock to represent o'clock and half past times. As well as this we will learn about money. We will introduce all British coins and notes currently in circulation and we will participate in lots of role play to practice spending money in our pretend shop.
In History we will be exploring the lives of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole, the impact they had during the Crimean War and how they changed nursing for the better. We will delve deep into the lives of these 2 significant individuals, finding out where they were from, their family background and how they became nurses. We will also explore the achievements of these individuals throughout their lives and how they both made history but in slightly different ways.
In other curriculum areas, we will take a walk to the Lickey Hills to collect natural resources to make our Andy Goldsworthy inspired sculptures in Art; in Computing we will use the iPads to create animations on the scratch software; we will discuss the human lifecycle and how our bodies change in PSHE, and in Science we will be thinking about animals, their characteristics and what they eat. 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 your child comes to school in their PE Kit for our outdoor and sporting activities: Year 1 have PE on Monday and Tuesday afternoon. All PE lessons will be outdoors (weather permitting) and you may wish to consider your child having a navy tracksuit for the day. Please also make sure all earrings are removed or covered with tape before school on PE days.
