Year 1 2025 - 2026
Welcome to the Year 1 Homepage
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 2, called Goldilocks and Just the One Bear. Through this text the children will predict what might happen, learn to retell stories, participate in discussion and make inferences. Children will join words and clauses using and, write simple description, sequence sentences to form short, linked narratives. They will continue to practice using capital letters, including for places and days of the week. They will also use question marks, full stops and exclamation marks. This is an exciting, alternative story to the traditional Goldilocks, to encourage their imaginations and creativity.
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 time, money, volume and capacity, mass and space. We follow the Maths No Problem scheme, using concrete objects to first make it, then journaling with a draw it, write it, explain it approach. In our early morning activities we will continue to practice maths with word problems.
In R.E. the children will be thinking about What is Respect? This will link into our No Outsiders curriculum.
In Computing we will be Programming Animations.
In Science this term we will continue to look at Identifying Materials. We will consider their properties and best uses. The children will learn to compaare and group materials.
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 self-portraits. We will look at the work of different artists and copy their style to create different self-portraits. We will look at Edward Ofosu, Julian Opie and Frieda Kahlo. They will learn to collage as well as sketch using light, short strokes with a carefully chosen pencil and paint colour.
In Geography our topic is Life in the City.
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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 (striking and fielding games) and on Fridays, (athletics) so please come to school dressed in your PE kits.
