Welcome to Year 1

 

 

 

Teachers: Miss Bellerby and Mr Smith

 

Teaching Assistants:

Miss Dott,  Miss Johnson, Mrs Bentley and Mrs Outtram

 

 

Spring Term

Our topic this term is: Toy Story

 

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.

Reading with more fluency and expression.

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.

Writing for a variety of purposes.

 

Numeracy

Place Value

Ordering numbers in sequence by counting forwards and backwards.

Partitioning numbers into Tens and Ones.

The Four Operations

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

Adding and subtracting using a number line.

Measurement

Measure lengths and heights.

 

Science 

Seasonal changes

Computing

e-safety

Multimedia tools for drawing

Art

Drawing skills - line, tone and texture

Painting skills - colour mixing

Music

Changes of sounds

Singing, listening, composing and playing.

Technology

Split pin characters

Sliders

Geography

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

History

Looking at toys in the past

P.E and Games

Games and Dance

R.E. and PSHCE

Christianity, Judaism and a sense of belonging.

 

P.E. is on Monday and Tuesday. 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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