Welcome to Year 1

Class Teachers:

Beech: Mrs Ffrench

Holly: Mrs Whittle

Support Staff: 

Miss Zammitt

Miss Lapthorn (LSA)

Mrs Rossi-Kerr (LSA)

Key Messages/Dates

• PE is on a Monday,please ensure your children come to school in full PE kit.
• Please return yellow reading record and reading books to school every day.
• Year 1 visits the library every Tuesday. Please ensure your children bring their library books into school ready to exchange on this day.
• Forest school -each child has been sent home which days they are attending.
• Trip to St Margaret's Church- Date to be confirmed.

What are we learning in Year 1 this half term?

Autumn 1

Reading

At St Margaret's we are passionate about reading! 

These are the texts that we cover throughout the this half term:

Our core texts are 'Family and Me' by Michaela Dias-Hayes'. This is our house' by Michael Rosen and Bob Graham. We will also be enjoying 'Harry and the bucket full of dinosaurs' , 'Harry and the dinosaurs go wild', 'Harry and the dinosaurs go to school' by Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds.'Dinosaur adventures -ankylosaurus-the clumsy club' by Fran Bromage.

Writing

At St Margaret's Primary Academy in Year 1 we are focusing on sentence structure and what components are needed to form a grammatically correct sentence. We are using colourful semantics to help the children understand that sentences must include a subject (who is the sentence about), a verb (what is the subject doing). We we orally be extending this knowledge  by composing sentences with a subject (who is the sentence about), a verb (what is the subject doing), and an object (what is the action happening to).

Maths 

At St Margaret's Primary Academy we adopt a mastery approach towards teaching maths lessons. The mastery approach supports children in becoming fluent and confident mathematicians. Maths lessons include a connect task where children recap previously learnt skills, fluency activities and opportunities for children to apply their knowledge to reasoning and problem solving. This half term we will be learning to sort and manipulate objects and numbers within 10.

Science

This half term, children will be learning about seasonal changes and the daily weather. The children will be finding out about the four seasons and the changes of weather in each one.

The children will also be learning about tree, they will name each part of a tree and what they do.

History 

In history this half term, the children will be learning about changes within living memory, they will be finding out about changes in their local area.

PSHE 

In PSHE this half term, the children will be discussing the topic 'Being Me in My World'. They will be learning how they are important and their rights and responsibilities within their class and school. They will also be focusing on Safeguarding, where they will learn how to keep themselves safe.

RE 

In RE this half term, the children will be learning about Christianity with a particular focus on the Creation Story.

DT

In DT this half term the children will be learning about mechanisms where they will create a movable picture using a sliding image.

Art

In art the children will be learning to draw and mark make using a variety different techniques and resources. 

PE

In PE this half term, the children will be learning about i_____

ICT

The children will be learning to name and use the different components of a computer.

Home learning

We expect children to read a minimum of 3 times a week at home; this should be logged in their yellow reading records. If it has been logged that your children have read 3 or more times a week, then they will receive an extra play time at the end of each week.

Please ensure that reading records are brought to school daily so that reading at school can also be logged.

Children can log onto Numbots to practise their maths skills at home regularly using Numbots. 

If you need support with logging into Numbots or are unaware of your child's login, please reach out to a member of the Year 1 team

https://play.numbots.com/#/intro