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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. 

Spring Term 

In English we will be starting our new book, The Lion Inside. Through this text the children will predict what might happen, learn to retell stories, participate in discussion and make inferences. They will use drama to explore the events and feelings of the animals, leading to our writing tasks. 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 suffixes.

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 be looking at Numbers to 20 before moving on to Addition and Subtraction within 20. We then move to the Properties of Shapes: Shapes and Patterns, before Measurement: Length and Height.

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 looking at 'Programming' using the Beebots. 

In Science this term we will continue to look at seasonal changes, in particular Winter to Spring. We will go on weekly walks to observe the signs of Spring, including the many spring bulbs we planted in December. We will learn to name and group animals by mammals, birds and reptiles.

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 Intrepid Explorers. The children will be learning about Columbus and Armstrong and their voyages of explorations. We will further explore this topic with a visit from Freshwater Theatre on Monday 16th March. 

We will begin our next My Happy Mind unit called, ‘Celebrate’ 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 Wednesday with House of Dance and on Fridays, so please come to school dressed in your PE kits.