Year 1 2025 - 2026
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The Year 1 team is Mrs Argent-Belcher (Monday - Wednesday) and Miss Gifford (Thursday - Friday)
Miss Gifford and Mrs A Davies will also be supporting the children throughout the week.
Summer Term 1
In English we will be starting a new book in Summer 1, called Toys in Space. Through this text the children will predict what might happen, learn to retell stories, participate in discussion and make inferences. In writing, children will compose sentences orally, sequencing sentences to form short narratives. Throughout the unit the children will continue to master the key skills of punctuation, the use of ‘and’ begin to use the suffixes -ed and -ing.
Each day the children are read at least one story, and often poetry. Regular exposure to rhyme and narrative improves memory, vocabulary, concentration, emotional intelligence, grammar structures and phonetic awareness: these lay an excellent foundation for reading and writing. Please do read books at home- we are passionate about this!
In Maths we will start by looking at multiplication and division. We will learn about numbers to 100 and fractions. Then, following the Maths No Problem syllabus, we will explore Time. In our early morning activites we will continue to practice maths with word problems.
In R.E. the children will be looking at the beauty of the world them. They will learn about what Christians believe about creation from the Bible and how they look after the world. The children will learn about Islam and why Allah and Muhammed are important to Muslims.
In Computing we will be Engaging in Writing.
In Science this term we will continue to look at animals, but this half term at humans! We are exploring the human body and the senses.
We will go on weekly walks to observe the signs of summer, including the many late Spring bulbs we planted in December.
We hope to celebrate our new knowledge about animals with a trip to Chester Zoo on Tuesday 2nd June.
Our Art Topic is mark-making, creating patterns with paint. We will also be creating work based on the work of Paul Klee.
In History our topic is Castles. The children will be learning about the Norman conquest and why they built the first castles- out of wood and then stone.
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We will begin our next My Happy Mind unit called, ‘Engage’ and we will continue to add to our class toolbox with strategies to help us when looking at the Zones of Regulation.
P.E. lessons will take place on Wednesdays and on Fridays, so please come to school dressed in your PE kits.