Year 1

Year 1

Welcome to Year One!

Teacher: Miss Johnston

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Ottaway (Monday-Thursday)

Key Information:

PE - Wednesdays and Thursdays

Phonics Wallets: Due back each Thursday

Reading Practise Books: Due back each Thursday

Library book changing: Due back each Thursday

Spring Term

This term we will be spending more time working as a class and less time choosing our own learning.

In English we will be reading 'How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth', using it as a model to write our own set of instructions to wash a dragon. We will also be reading some stories from other cultures including 'How to bring the rain to Kapiti Plain' using it to compare and contrast with stories from our own cultures. We will be comparing some traditional tales such as the 'Princess and the Pea' and the 'Frog Prince', identifying key themes and links between characters. We will have a chance to write in each of these genres throughout the units.

In Maths we will continue to consolidate our understanding of place value to 50 and continue to use our know facts to derive related subtraction and addition. We will be counting in groups and 2 and 5 and ;earning how to identify an odd or even number.

Our topics units will focus on the geography of the UK including the capital cities and key landmarks. We will also be looking at the wider world using maps and find out why there are 7 Wonders of the World. In art we will be learning how to weave using wool and in DT will make our own playgrounds. We are learning lots more in our other foundation subjects too! A very busy term for Year 1; we can't wait!