Year 1
Welcome to Year 1
Class Teachers:
Beech: Miss Macdonald
Holly: Mrs Whittle
Support Staff:
Mrs Duncan (LSA)
Miss Lapthorn (LSA)
Key Messages/Dates
- PE is on a Monday. Please ensure your children come to school in full PE kit.
- Year 1 visits the library every Tuesday afternoon. Please ensure your children bring their library books into school ready to exchange on this day.
- Free afterschool love reading workshops - Starting on Monday 23rd February and continuing every Monday throughout the half term. These are taking place in Year 1 classrooms.
- Afterschool mindfulness and wellbeing club - Year 1 and Year 2 - Starting on Tuesday 24th February and continuing every Tuesday throughout the half term.
- Teddy bear parachute experiment - Wednesday 25th March
What are we learning in Year 1 this half term?
Spring 1
Reading
These are the texts that we cover throughout the this half term:
At St Margaret's we are passionate about reading! We teach a daily reading session based on a Curriculum for Unity School’s Partnership (CUSP) text.
This half term, our core texts are 'Look Up!' by Nathan Bryon and 'Here we are' by Oliver Jeffers. These core texts are supplemented by a variety of additional texts, to support children developing their reading fluency and confidence across a range of text types.
Writing
At St Margaret's Primary Academy we follow CUSP for our writing curriculum. The CUSP curriculum is a vocabulary rich, knowledge based approach to help develop pupils' retrieval, vocabulary and deepen their learning. During the Spring 2 term, Year 1 will be writing a recount based on their personal experiences. This will allow children to write about the history fossil hunting beach trip they went on last half term. The children will also be writing informal letters. The children will have the opportunity to write their own invitation for a special event which will take place next half term.
Maths
At St Margaret's Primary Academy we adopt a mastery approach to teach maths lessons. The mastery approach supports children in becoming fluent and confident mathematicians. Maths lessons include ‘Flashback 4’ where children recap 4 previously learnt skills, fluency activities and opportunities for children to apply their knowledge to reasoning and problem solving. This half term we will be continuing their learning about adding and subtracting within 20. The children will also be learning, place value to 50, length and height and mass and volume.
Science
This half term, children will continue to learn about everyday materials. Within this topic the children will learn what materials are and be able to name and identify what material different objects are made of. The children will have the opportunity to take part in multiple exciting experiments to investigate which materials are waterproof, which materials are absorbent, which materials are opaque and which materials are transparent. The children will also have the exciting opportunity to create a parachute for a teddy bear and investigate if the chosen material was the most suitable.
Geography
In geography this half term the children will be learning about hot and cold places. The children will have the opportunity to recap their learning about continents and embed this learning further with this topic. The children will be looking at the equator and where hot and cold places are in the world and the reasons why these locations are either hot or cold.
Computing
In computing this half term the children will be creating media using digital printing. The children will have the opportunity to embed their computer skills further and learn how they can use computers to paint
PSHE
In PSHE this half term, the children will be learning about how to be healthy. The children will be looking at what being healthy means and the choices that they can make to ensure they are a healthy person. This unit also focuses on how to be safe in everyday life, focusing on road safety, being safe with medicine and how to keep clean and healthy.
RE
In RE this half term, the children will be learning about Christianity. The children will look at the Easter story. The children focus on the key events in the Easter story including Palm Sunday.
PE
In PE this half term, the children will be learning about ball skills. The children will focus on using rackets and bats to develop their ball skills further. The children will use the rackets and bats to develop their accuracy and control.
The children will also be learning gymnastics. The children will focus on balancing on small and big body parts. The children will be using a range of balances to create a short gymnastic sequence.
Home learning
We expect children to read a minimum of 3 times a week at home; this should be logged on Boom Reader. If it has been logged on Boom Reader 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.
If you need support with Boom Reader, please come and speak to a member of the Year 1 team who will be more than happy to help.
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
