Dear Year 1 families,
A big welcome to Year 1!
We hope you have all settled back into the new term. We are really looking forward to working together with you all so that we have an exciting and productive term.This will be a typical school day for your child.
RWI/Phonics
Break
Maths
English
Lunch
Mastering of Number/ Maths OnTrack
Foundation subjects/PE
Storytime
PE sessions are:
1U – Monday and Thursday
1F -Tuesday and Wednesday
Maths targets
Throughout the Autumn term your child will be focussing on:
· Number and Place Value: Up to 20
· Geometry: Properties of Shapes
· Addition and Subtraction
· Number and Place Value: up to 100
· Addition and Subtraction: Facts of 7 - 11
Your child will also have access to a programme called Numbots which will support your child’s maths. We will provide your child with login details. We will also send a knowledge organizer home with your child to inform you of what your child is learning in maths.
Your child will bring home a maths activity which supports their learning in school at the end of each week. This is optional and there is no pressure to complete the activity.
Reading
· Teachers will be giving the children one home reader each week appropriately matched to the level they are reading in school. Please can your child bring the books to school daily as there will be opportunities to read them in school.
· Please read daily with your child and record what they have read to you in their yellow reading records. (It could just be a tick, but it would help us to be able to more closely and effectively monitor which books have been read if you do this.)
· In the RWI home readers, there is a guide on how to use the reading book effectively.
· Your child will also be given the opportunity to choose a story time book each week.
· Reading should be enjoyable (not too tricky!)
· Reading should include a wide range of fiction and non-fiction.
Writing
n Autumn 1 the Power of Reading texts will be Here We are by Oliver Jeffers and the Owl Babies by Martin Waddell .
In Autumn 2 the texts will be Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and The Robot and the Bluebird by David Lucas.
Literacy activities will be planned around these texts.
Spellings
Please find attached the Year 1 high frequency (common exception/red) words. These are the words that the children should be able to read and spell by the end of Year 1.
We will inform you each week of any focus spellings that we would like you to support your child with.
Other curriculum subjects:
Autumn 1
Geography – Where I live. My home and the route to school.
Science – Autumn – Seasonal change and Plants
Art – Self and family portraits – George Seurat
PE - Gymnastics / Ball skills
Computing – Computing systems and networks – technology around us /Online safety
PSHE - Relationships -Being Me in my World.
RE - Does God want Christians to look after the World?
Autumn 2
History - The Gunpowder Plot and Guy Fawkes
A Victorian Christmas
Science - Materials
DT – Mechanisms – sliders and levers
PE - Target games / invasion
RE – What gifts might Christians in my town have given Jesus if he had been born here rather than in Bethlehem?
Computing - Online safety – Project Evolve – Online relationships and online bullying
Music – Hey You
PSHE – Celebrating differences
Gentle Reminders
Please send your child to school with a named water bottle, a named pencil case and a named pair of wellies. The pencil cases and wellies can then stay at school. It can also be handy to pack a change of clothes in your child's bag.
Thank you as always for all the support that you give your children at home. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to speak to your class teacher. We are here to support you and your child in every way we can.
From The Year 1 Team
Miss Underwood, Mrs Perrett, Mrs Fisher, Mrs Van der Velde and Mrs Cooke
Mrs Fox (PPA teacher on Thursday am in 1U and Thursday pm in 1F)