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.
• Trip to St Margaret's Church- Date to be confirmed.

What are we learning in Year 1 this half term?

Autumn 2

Reading

At St Margaret's we are passionate about reading! 

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

Harry and the dinosaurs go to school by Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds.'  

Dinosaur adventures -ankylosaurus-the clumsy club" by Fran Bromage.

The Tiger who came to Tea -by Judith Kerr

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)and an adjective (a word that describes the noun).Their writing will be based on their senses on what they can see, hear, touch, feel, smell and taste.

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 the children will be learning about addition and subtraction and will be exploring different calculations within 10.They will be using the part part whole approach to support them with these concepts. They will then begin to investigate 3D and 2 D shapes.

Science

This half term, the children will continue learning about trees, finding out different types of trees and the differences between them. They will then move on to the topic of animals including humans, discussing what an animal is, the different types of animals, their similarities and differences as well as finding out about the foods they eat.

Geography

In geography this half term, the children will be learning about the UK They will be identifying the four countries, their capital cities and the seas surrounding the UK.. They will also be looking further away and discovering the continents and oceans of the world.In geography this half term, the children will be learning about the UK They will be identifying the four countries, their capital cities and the seas surrounding the UK.. They will also be looking further away and discovering the continents and oceans of the world.

PSHE 

In PSHE this half term, the children will be discussing the topic 'Celebrating Difference'. They will be learning to celebrate what makes them unique and different to their friends. They will still be focusing on Safeguarding, where they will learn how to keep themselves safe and understand who they can talk to if they are unhappy or if they feel they are being bullied.

RE 

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

DT

In DT this half term the children will be learning about towers, they will be answering the question ”How do you stop a tower from toppling over?”

Art

In art the children will be finding out about the paintings of Piet Mondrian. They will be exploring different techniques and creating their own artworks in a similar style.

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. They will begin to develop their keyboard and mouse skills. They will also be taught how to use a computer responsibly.

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