Year 1 2024 - 2025

Mrs Marshall

Mrs Bailey

Welcome to the Year 1 Homepage!

The Year 1 team are Mrs Marshall, Mrs Bailey, Miss Franklin and Mrs A Davies.

jennifer.marshall@oldfield.cheshire.sch.uk nikki.bailey@oldfield.cheshire.sch.uk

Here you will find out everything you need to know about what Year 1 are getting up to in school.

Summer Term

PE DAY: TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS

Please send your children into school in PE kit on Tuesdays (Multi-skills with Pat and Andy) and Fridays (Gymnastics with Mr Bell). It is important that earrings are taken out prior to children coming to school unless they have been recently pierced in which case they should be covered with tape before they come to school. This is for everyone's safety.

The term

In English our new book is traditional tale with a twist! During this half term, the children will be continuing to work on joining words to make simple sentences using capital letters and a full stop at the end of each sentence. They will be continuing to use the conjuction 'and' to join words and clauses. As always, there will be a real focus on applying their phonic knowledge to their spellings and working on the Year 1 tricky words. In Year 1, everytime we write, we try our best to correctly form our letters and sit them neatly on the line.

Although the children won't be bringing home spellings, they will continue to develop their spelling knowledge in school.

Please listen to your child read their banded book (brought home on a Wednesday) at least 3 times in a week. Please note the dates you have read with them in their yellow reading records. This will make a huge difference to their reading ability and it will help to promote how important reading is at home as well as in school. We thank you for your continued support with this.

In Maths, children will look at numbers up to 100, ensuring that they can spot the tens and ones in a number. They will also be introduced to the fraction a half and a quarter, they will then learn to tell the time to o'clock and half past. They will also learn about money, recognising the different coins and notes used in our currency. They will finish their learning with units of measurement, including volume and capacity and mass. The children will continue to take part in Mastery Maths for 15 minutes, 4 days a week to help build their maths fluency.

We will be finishing off our Geography topic 'Around the World' before moving on to focus on cities, what makes a city a city, what human and physical features are and identifying these in a city. We will also be looking at aerial maps and using symbols and keys to create a map.

Alongside this we will continue our learning about changing seasons what they are, comparing and contrasting them, observing and noting changes across the seasons describing weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies. We will also be learning about seasons relate to the months of the year.

In Science we will be identifying materials with Mrs Turnbull, distinguishing between an object and a material from which it is made.

In Music this term we will be developing our skills of musical improvisation through our Charanga music programme. Over the term we will enjoy warming up our face, body and voice ready for singing, develop skills in moving in time with a steady beat, copying back simple long and short rhythms with clapping, copying back singing simple high and low patterns and copying back rhythmic words and play tuned and untuned musical instruments rhythmically.

In RE we will be exploring the question: How do Muslims express new beginnings? Including how and why Allah and Muhammad (PBUH) are important to Muslims.

In our PSHE lessons we will be learning about the characteristics of friendship including sharing interests and experiences and support with things people are finding difficult, that healthy relationships are positive and welcoming towards others, practical steps they can take in a range of different contexts to improve or support respectful relationships, that other families can look different from their family and these families are also characterised by love and care.

We will be working through the third, fourth and fifth modules in our myHappymind programme which are Appreciate, Relate and Engage. These focus on the developing our awareness of things that we are grateful for, building our relationships, how our character strengths can help us get along with others. We introduce Active Listening and find out how this can help us, including how this helps with friendships. We finish the programme reflecting on how when we feel good, we do good. We will be setting our own personal goals on things we want to achieve, learning about resilience and how important it is to keep trying when things get tricky. Our PSHE and No Outsiders programme supports this work, focusing on health and wellbeing.

Throughout the term we are developing a class emotional toolkit linked to different Zones of Regulation (Red Zone, Blue Zone, Green Zone and Yellow Zone), increasing our self awareness of emotions and our understanding of how to express these. Each week we choose a different strategy to practice and decide which Zone we might use this strategy in. We will be practicising some new strategies including: kind messages, smile, hug yourself, finger hook.

We will be revisiting the following strategies: stand up tall,find a quiet space and do stillness (sit with hands on knees or on the table, and count to 10 as you breathe in for 3 seconds and out for 5 seconds), colour counting (choose a colour, and see how many things you can see that have that colour in them), finger breathing, stand up tall, stretch it out, yoga poses, wall pushes, have a snack/drink of water, connecting with others (high five/elbows).

Our PE days will be Tuesdays (Multi-skills with Pat and Andy) and Fridays (Gymnasics with Mr Bell) so please send children into school in PE kits on these days.

For safety reasons please can children with long hair have their hair tied back on PE days and children with earrings take their earrings out at home before they come to school. Anyone with newly pierced ears should come to school with tape over their ear rings.

School uniform - please remember to clearly label clothing (including PE kit, hats, coats etc) so items can easily be returned to the children if they go missing. Please send your child into school every day this half term with a suitable coat for the time of year. We go outside for breaks when it is raining so the coat will need to be waterproof.

Please use the tabs above to find out more about what your child is learning about in English and in Maths and for some educational games. Also, using the links above you will also be able to access key information linked with how to contact us and a reminder of what your child needs to bring in each day.