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Hello, meet the

Year One

Team

Nazifa

Khatun

Year One Teacher, RE, MfL & Community Events

Stella

Watts

Year One Teacher

Shellie

Lucas

Year One Teaching Assistant & Earlybirds Supervisor

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.

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What we're learning this term

  • The Bumblebear by Nadia Shireen
  • Julian Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
  • Rocket Says Look Up! by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola
  • Oi Frog! by Kes Gray and Jim Fiel

In Year 1 Autumn, children begin to explore the four purposes of writing – to entertain, inform, persuade and discuss.
They will entertain by writing simple stories and character descriptions, and inform by sequencing and recounting personal events, producing short written outcomes.

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  • 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.

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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.

  • Color – Landscape; David Hockney
  • Observe an artist's work of landscapes, draw landscapes, focusing on depth of field, horizon, and composition.
  • Name primary and secondary colors.
  • Mixing colors to create color groups (e.g., yellows, greens, browns).
  • Printing and Impressed Images; Rachel Dein
  • Create patterns in clay using found objects.
  • Use found objects as tools to press into plasticine to create texture.
  • Use rollers or the backs of spoons to create pressure and make prints.
  • Make design choices and create impressed image tiles for collaborative composition.

DT

  • Freestanding Structures
  • Creating tutor houses.
  • 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

  • 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.

DG (Dreams and Goals)

  • Aspirations, how to achieve goals, and understanding the emotions that go with this.

HM (Healthy Me)

  • Being and keeping safe and healthy.

Relationships and Changing me.

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

Christianity

  • How do you belong to different religions?
  • What does God look like in Christianity?

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.
  • Everyday Materials: Exploring everyday materials, distinguishing between objects and the materials they are made of, identifying and naming various materials, describing their physical properties, comparing and grouping materials based on these properties.
  • Seasons: Observing changes across the four seasons, describing weather associated with the seasons, and understanding variations in day length.

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.

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