Welcome to Year 1

 

 

 

Teachers: Miss Bellerby and Mr Smith

 

Teaching Assistants:

Miss Dott,  Miss Johnson and Mrs Outtram

 

 

Autumn Term

Our topic this term is: Transport

 

Key concepts being taught this term:

 

Literacy  

Reading

Decoding, blending and grapheme recognition.

Recognising some common exception words.

Making predictions in response to text and relate these to personal experiences. 

Making inferences on the basis of what is being done or said.

Writing

Using phonic knowledge to write words using known graphemes.

Leaving finger spaces between words.

Using capital letters and full stops.

Using cursive writing for lower case letters and forming capital letters. 

 

Numeracy

Place Value

Using the language 'more', 'less', 'fewer' and 'equal to'.

Ordering numbers in sequence by counting forwards and backwards.

The Four Operations

Understanding the 'Part, Part, Whole' model and how this can be written as addition and subtraction number sentences.

Geometry

Identifying and naming 2D and 3D shapes.

 

Science 

Seasonal changes

Computing

e-safety

Programming Beebots

Art

Drawing skills - line, tone and texture

Painting skills - colour mixing

Music

Changes of sounds

Singing, listening, composing and playing.

Technology

Sewing a Christmas stocking.

Geography

Discussing weather changes and how this is different across the world.

History

Looking at significant historical figures.

P.E and Games

Games and Fitness

R.E. and PSHCE

Christianity, Judaism and a sense of belonging.

 

P.E. is on Monday and Wednesday. Please ensure that NO earrings are worn on these days.
Homework is given out on Thursday and is due in on Tuesday.

          

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