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Alicja Drabek
Year One Teaching Assistant
Jessica Thompson
Year One Teaching Assistant
Nazifa Khatun
Year One Teacher, RE, MfL & Community Events
Shellie Lucas
Year One Teaching Assistant & Earlybirds Supervisor
Stella Watts
Year One Teacher

Useful things to know and reminders from the team

PE Days are Wednesday and Friday.

Music is on Friday.

Group Reading Book is changed on a Thursday.

On some Friday mornings we go to the Garden for Outdoor Learning.

Explore what we're learning this term below...

  • The Adventures of Egg Box Dragon
  • Pinocchio
  • How to Find Gold

We are writing for the following purposes: Short Narrative, Recount, diary, letter, newspaper report, instructions, poems

Reading:

Writing:

We are writing for the following purposes:

  • Short Narrative
  • Recount
  • Diary
  • Letter
  • Newspaper Report
  • Instructions
  • Poems

Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling:

  • Name the letters of the alphabet and put them in order.
  • Punctuate using full stops and capital letters.
  • Use capital letters for proper nouns and personal pronoun ‘I’.

Composition:

  • Discuss writing with the teacher and/or other children.
  • Compose sentences orally before writing them down.
  • Read writing aloud to peers and/or teachers.
  • Write simple, dictated sentences from memory.

Reading:

  • Beegu
  • Look Up

We are writing for the following purposes:

Giving commands and instructions. Descriptive writing. Writing a letter. 

Grammar, punctuation and spelling

Punctuate using full stops, question marks and capital letters.

Use capital letters for proper nouns and personal pronoun ‘I’.

Using conjunctions ‘and’ and ‘but’ in sentences. 

Composition

Discuss writing with teacher and/or other children.

Compose sentences orally before writing them down.

Read writing aloud to peers and/or teachers.

Write simple, dictated sentences from memory.

  • Learning numbers to 20.
  • Addition to 10.
  • Subtraction to 10.
  • Addition and subtraction within 20.
  • Shape and pattern.
  • Height and length.
  • Position and direction.

Spring 1:

  • Extending understanding of addition and subtraction to include numbers up to 20.
  • Consolidating knowledge of place value, one more/one less, ordering numbers, etc.
  • Daily counting focusing on counting forwards and backward in steps of 2s and 10s.
  • Exploring shapes, patterns, length, and height in play-based learning.

Spring 2:

  • Furthering the concept of number and place value by exploring numbers up to 40.
  • Continued examination of basic math operations.
  • Numbers to 40
  • Number bonds to 40
  • Addition and Subtraction within 40
  • Time
  • Money

Summer 1 

  • Solve addition and subtraction word problems. 
  • Multiplication - making and adding equal groups and making doubles. 
  • Division - grouping and sharing equally
  • Fractions - making halves and quarters

Summer 2 

  • Numbers to 100 - counting to 100, showing tens and ones
  • Time - telling time to the hour and half hour
  • Money - Recognising coins and notes
  • Volume and capacity - Compaing volume and finding capacity
  • Mass - Finding and comparing mass
  • Space - describing positions, movements and making turns

  • Sounds Interesting
  • Unit Aim - To develop children’s ability to identify different sounds and instruments, and to change and use them expressively in response to a stimulus.

Pulse and Rhythm

Learn and remember 5 new  songs to sing alone, with a partner and in a group

Walk the pulse at different  speeds

Continue to learn about high/low, quiet/loud and fast/slow by changing the way songs and instruments are performed

Play musical games to develop musical memory and steady beat

Listen and move to > recorded music, noting its > pulse and rhythm

Pulse and Rhythm

Learn and remember 5 new  songs to sing alone, with a partner and in a group

Walk the pulse at different  speeds

Continue to learn about high/low, quiet/loud and fast/slow by changing the way songs and instruments are performed

Play musical games to develop musical memory and steady beat

Listen and move to > recorded music, noting its > pulse and rhythm

  • Drawing – observing anatomy, faces, and limbs
  • Artists: Basquiat, Bill Traylor, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Eduardo Paolozzi
  • Texture – Weaving/Collage/Sort according to specific qualities of how textiles create things

DT - Freestanding structures: Creating egg box dragons. Knowing how to make freestanding structures stronger, stiffer, and more stable. Knowing and using technical vocabulary relevant to the project.

Patterns; Damien Hirst

Observe patterns in art work. Colour mixing.  Create paintings and collages using patterns and symmetry. 

Clay pinch pots: Bernard Leach

Working with clay to create pots.  

DT - Healthy Living

Making a healthy salad

Patterns; Damien Hirst

Observe patterns in art work. Colour mixing.  Create paintings and collages using patterns and symmetry. 

Clay pinch pots: Bernard Leach

Working with clay to create pots.  

DT - Healthy Living

Making a healthy salad

  • BM (Being Me in My World): 'Who am I and how do I fit?'
  • CD (Celebrating Difference): Respect for similarity and difference. Anti-bullying and being unique.

Relationships and Changing me.

Relationships and Changing me.

  • Islam – What does it mean to be a Muslim? What does God look like in Islam?

Islam

What is the Hajj? What is pilgrimage? Where does the Hajj take place?

What do Muslims do on Hajj? What is a mosque? What do Muslims do at the mosque?  

Islam

What is the Hajj? What is pilgrimage? Where does the Hajj take place?

What do Muslims do on Hajj? What is a mosque? What do Muslims do at the mosque?  

  • Humans – All about me! Learning how to identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense.
  • Materials: Learning how to distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made and how to identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock. Describing the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials. Comparing and grouping together a variety of everyday materials based on their simple physical properties.

Plants

In plants children will learn how to identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees. They also learn how to identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

Animals

Teaches children to identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. They learn how to identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. And finally, they learn how to describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including pets).

Plants

In plants children will learn how to identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees. They also learn how to identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

Animals

Teaches children to identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. They learn how to identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. And finally, they learn how to describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including pets).

  • Geography topic: Maps - Follow simple directions, devise a route and follow it, read a map and key, learn N,S,E, and W.
  • History topic: My past – Toys. Learn about toys throughout the past 100 years. Compare similarities and differences. Discuss changes within living memory.

Geography:

  • Welcome to the UK
  • Explore the UK and its capital cities.
  • UK and the surrounding seas.
  • Explore seasonal weather patterns in the UK.

History:

  • The Great Fire of London
  • Exploring Stuart London.
  • 2nd September 1666.
  • How did London change?

Geography:

What a wonderful world

Share knowledge of the world

Hot vs cold

Polar regions and deserts

The Mediterranean 

History topic: 

  • Significant person from the past

Mae Jemison (astronaut)

  • Creating digital paintings. Children will develop their understanding of a range of tools used for digital painting. They then use these tools to create their own digital paintings, while gaining inspiration from a range of artists’ work. The term children will be considering their preferences when painting with and without the use of digital devices.

  • Creating digital paintings. Children will develop their understanding of a range of tools used for digital painting. They then use these tools to create their own digital paintings, while gaining inspiration from a range of artists’ work. The term children will be considering their preferences when painting with and without the use of digital devices.

Data & Information:

  • Children will be looking at labels to put objects into groups and labeling these groups.
  • They will demonstrate the ability to count a small number of objects before and after the objects are grouped.
  • Pupils will begin to demonstrate their ability to sort objects into different groups based on the properties they choose.
  • Finally, pupils will use their ability to sort objects into different groups to answer questions about data.

  • Programming and animations
  • Digital writing

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  • Say, read, write and understand: Using common greetings, recognizing and saying numbers, colors, and food.

Spanish

Say, read, write, and understand:

  • Using common greetings.
  • Recognizing and saying numbers, colors, and family members.

Say, read, write and understand:

Using common greetings, recognizing and saying numbers, colours, animals and body parts.

Explore what we're learning this term below...

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