King Charles III Coronation Picnic May 2023
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Campfire Chaos November 2022
Welcome to Year 1
Reminder to Parents/Carers: Your child can be collected from the playground but Parents/Carers CANNOT go further than the coned area (basketball court) due to safety of children.
Thank you,
Year One Team
Your teachers this year are:
1D - Miss Doherty, Miss Martin and Mr Gough
1KFF - Miss Kelso, Mrs Fawcett-Foster, Mrs Mahmood-Khan and Mrs Pritchard
We will begin the Summer Term focusing our learning on deepening their vocabulary and understanding through questioning and enquiry based learning. Children will learn through stimulating activities based upon our Literacy, Numeracy, Science and other topics throughout the week.
The Year 1 Curriculum is attached below with our Curriculum Maps to help you navigate through the Summer Term along with our Long Term Plan which will help you see what your children will be learning throughout the year.
Remember, at any point where you need any guidance from either Miss Doherty, Miss Kelso, Mrs Fawcett-Foster or Mrs Mahmood-Khan please message via the online platform of Class Dojo or ring the school and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
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| Conceptual Word Wall Year 1 Autumn 1.pdf | Download |
| Conceptual Word Wall Year 1 Autumn 2.pdf | Download |
| Conceptual Word Wall Year 1 Spring 1.pdf | Download |
| Conceptual Word Wall Year 1 Spring 2.pdf | Download |
| Conceptual Word Wall Year 1 Summer 1.pdf | Download |
| Conceptual Word Wall Year 1 Summer 2.pdf | Download |
This term, we’re going to be enjoying researching both formal and informal types of 'Letters' and other structured pieces of writing such as 'Familiar Settings and Traditional Tales'. We will be using different types of texts, such as newspapers, fact files and newsletters to the children to allow them to understand how to compare and contrast fact and fiction texts.
Additionally, we will introduce 'poetry' through our Guided Reading sessions to help with inferencing and comprehension. This will be with a particular focus on the book 'A first poetry book' which will allow for a range of poems for all children to adapt to their reading ability to be challenged.
Our main focus will be Phonics which children have been doing twice daily, where children have been put into their targeted groups. This is due to the Y1 Phonics Screening Test which is at the end of Y1. Parents are reminded to practice at home with their decodable phonics reading book to encourage the sounds being taught at school. Additionally, Mrs Chohan is offering a Parents' Phonics Class EVERY Thursday from 9am - 11am for those parents wishing to better their Phonics knowledge.
This year, one of our main priorities is reading. Our Class Reads take place at the end of the school day and will be from a variety of authors.
Phonics
Websites to help children with their phonics:
https://www.ReadwithPhonics.com
https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/helpAHedgehog/
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=jolly+phonics+phase+2 (phase 2 sounds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixndECFUbIo (phase 3 sounds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0 (tricky words phase 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY (tricky words phase 3)
Year 1 will start the term by focusing on understanding capacity, money and statistics with a particular continuous focus on working up to grasping 0-20 with the embedding of number bonds. These areas are, of course, essential to the pupils’ understanding of many other units of work. A key focus is going to be mathematical fluency in these skills. The class will have an allocated time of 20 minutes per day.
Children will have a weekly lesson targeting their reasoning skills. Reasoning in Numeracy is the "process of applying logical and critical thinking to a mathematical problem in order to work out the correct strategy to use (and as importantly, not to use) in reaching a solution".
Activities will be supported through he aid of concrete objects, pictorial and written form questions. This will be helpful for all learners and allow for all learners to access the curriculum and consolidate their learning.
Numeracy
Websites to help children with their number bonds and times tables:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p
In our Science unit the children will be learning about Materials. They will learn to identify and name a variety of different materials which they can investigate from around their natural environment. Children will observe how different materials are used within their home and school and they will compare them and sort them dependent on their property. They will develop their scientific enquiry skills, making observations, predictions and conclusions.
This term, the children will begin to use PurpleMash, they’ll learn how to be a Maze Explorer using the computer programme. This will be done through the Purple Mash learning platform, which your child can access outside of school on most devices using their username and password. We recommend that children do this to gain extra practice and familiarity with the applications we’re using.
This year the children are going to be finding out about the Inventions, and we’ll be starting by learning about life, culture, technology and developments in the Roman times, before moving on to the development of Toys later in the year.
In Geography we are going to be focusing on 'The Seaside!' The classes will be able to discover all about what the seaside is and why people go there. Additionally, we can compare and contrast the different city to what it is like to the seaside. This is something they will find interesting and we will use different research techniques to allow them to investigate further about this new terminology.
In art we are going to be studying the art technique of patterns in more depth by focusing on ''William Morris', focusing on how he created different patterns . We will use a variety of products to add definition to the final pieces such as wax, charcoal, crayons and paint. One of the final pieces will be a large scale mural of different William Morris inspired designs for our school. They will develop their use of basic shapes and patterns to create what they observe in their local environment and also a visit to the local art gallery and apply this through the medium of sketching where they will use a range of materials to create 3D images of things they have seen in the local area.
Both classes will have PE twice a week (gymnastics, dance or outdoor games). It’s essential that your child always has their kit in school, and we recommend leaving it on the premises – only taking it home during the half-term breaks for cleaning. It’s also important that your child has the correct St. Luke’s kit: a plain white t-shirt, black shorts or knee-length leggings and pumps or trainers
1KFF PE Timetable
Monday - Outdoor Games
Friday - Gymnastics/Dance
1D PE Timetable
Monday - Outdoor Games
Friday - Gymnastics/Dance
Homework
Spellings will be sent home weekly on a Friday and will be tested on the following Friday with 10 spellings and also 5 phonics words to read each week. Homework for both Literacy and Numeracy will be sent out every Thursday and must be completed for Monday. Children who do not complete their homework will stay in during Monday playtime and complete it then (hopefully this will not happen). All homework sent home is to consolidate learning from Numeracy or Literacy.