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.

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 (Dance with Mrs Marshall) and Fridays (Athletics with Mrs Bailey). 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.

FOREST SCHOOLS DAY - FRIDAY 9TH MAY 2025

Year 1 will participate in Forest School on Friday 9th May. They should be dressed appropriately to spend the day outside:

- Leggings or jogging bottoms (not shorts or jeans)

- Outdoor shoes or wellies to wear outside and trainers to wear indoors

- Long sleeved t-shirt and plenty of layers

- Waterproof coat and waterproof trousers if you have them

- Sun hat and with sun cream applied

Please also ensure that if your child has long hair they have it tied back.

Forest School takes place in all weathers so please come prepared!

It is essential that the children wear long sleeved tops and long trousers, along with waterproof shoes or wellies (a spare pair needs to be brought in to wear inside) as they will be outside all day in long grass and wooded areas.

The term

In English our new book is all about building confidence and self esteem and is set in the African savanna. 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 but they will also start to use 'and' to join two simple 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.

We would encourage you to read daily with and to your children and to notice rhyme, pattern and spelling whilst you are reading.

In Maths, children will look at numbers up to 20, focusing on numbers between 20 and 20. They will count and write to 20, compare and order numbers and spot patterns. They will then move on to addition and subtraction within 20, learning and exploring dfferent methods to add and subtract wiithin 20. They will use their understanding of addition and subtraction to create fact families. The children will continue to take part in Mastery Maths for 15 minutes, 4 days a week to help build their maths fluency.

In History we will be learning about Castles with Miss Anders, finding out who built the first Castles in the UK and why, learning about the Bayeux Tapestry, learning about the structure of medieval castles and more about what life was like in medieval times. We will also find out about how the Tower of London's use has changed over time.

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 observing and recognising some simple characteristics of animals, learning that animals are similiar to each other in some ways and different in other ways. We will be classifying animals that are mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians or fish using simple observable features. This will then enable us to create a plan of a zoo enviornment incorporating different types of animals in our design.

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 (Dance with Mrs Marshall) and Fridays (Athletics with Mrs Bailey) 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.