Welcome to Year 1 LearningKey information for children, parents and carers
Year 1 Curriculum Overview
Year 1 Spellings Homework
Understand Building Learning Power
Homework is given out every Thursday and expected in your class tray on Tuesday.
Big Talk homework is distributed by your teacher every two weeks.
Spelling words are posted on this page each week for all groups. They are tested every week.
Your class PE day is Thursday. Please remember your PE kit on this day.
Please read every day at home. Bring your completed reading record into school on Tuesday.
Please write in pencil for maths. When you have a pen licence you may write in black pen only (not biro).
Year 1 Curriculum MapSpring 2 Topic - LOCAL ENVIRONMENT
It is a fun filled term so be prepared to get your hands dirty. We will then be creating our very own version of Michael Rosen’s ’We’re Going On a Bear Hunt’.
We will then be reading a story for another culture, ‘Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain.’ We will be using interesting openers and adjectives to describe the settings.
Get ready to learn all about multiplication and division this half term! We are going to be using arrays to learn how to multiply using new vocabulary such as ‘lots of’.
Get your purses and wallets at the ready! We are going to be learning all about the value of money and even will be using money to find change!
This half term we are going to be learning all about animals! We are going to be learning about the differences between fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
We are also going to be looking at what is means to be a carnivore, a herbivore or an omnivores. What is your favourite animal?
Do you know how to use Google?
We will be learning to use this search engine safely to help us find interesting pictures and then copy and paste them into a Word document.
Get ready to laugh your socks off as we learn all about the exciting life of Charlie Chaplin.
A significant person from history who came from Ealing. We will learn to mime and even put on our own silent theatre productions.
We are going to continue to explore pitch in music by making different sounds with our voices and a range of musical instruments.
Art & Design Technology
In D.T. we will be exploring a range of skills needed for designing and making a moving picture by using levers. We will be practising our skills of cutting and joining.
What can you do to protect the Earth?
We will be learning about caring for our world and will be looking at different creation stories.
Get your captain hats on because we are going to be sailing around the United Kingdom where we will be naming the 4 countries and their capital cities.
This term there will be a strong focus on how to use our core muscles to help us balance. We will be experimenting with this through gymnastics and using different equipment.
What is your favourite colour? This term we will be learning how to say the colours of the rainbow in French.