Welcome to Year 1

We hope that you have had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We can’t wait to hear all about it from the children and we are looking forward to starting lots of new learning this term with your children and watching them continue to flourish. As always if you need to speak to use about anything this half term you can always send us a message on class dojo or speak to us after school.

There are lots of exciting new things for your child to learn this term……..

English

This half term we will read the book ‘The Lion inside’. The children will come back to school to discover 2 sets of footprints and will have to try and work out who they might belong to. Once introduced to the Lion and the Mouse the children will write to describe them and what they might like to do

During the half term the children will continue to practise writing a good sentence using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops and will check back over what they have written to be sure it makes sense. They will be encouraged to extend their sentences using the word ’and’. The class will learn when to use question marks and exclamation marks this term and try to use them accurately in their own writing and begin to use the prefix un- and the suffixes -er -ed-est, and to spell words correctly using them.

Maths

Maths sessions will begin each day with a recap of the foundations in maths, such as number bonds to 10, counting in sets of 2’s grouping numbers etc.

We will start the term by looking at 3D shapes and then move onto looking at numbers to 20. The children will begin to learn the concept of place value, for instance knowing that 17 is made up of 1 ten and 7 ones or that 20 has 2 tens and no ones. Once the children are secure we will look at adding and subtracting numbers to 20 using the method of counting on. The children will find the first number on the number line and count on the second to find the answer.

Other subjects…..

Science - Materials (2) and their properties.

History - The Great Fire of London.

RE - ‘Galilee to Jerusalem’. Learning about Jesus as a boy and how he gathered his disciples and spread God’s word.

DT - Stable Structures - working towards building a garage for a toy car.

Music - Simple melodies, pitch and performing together.

Things to remember

Our PE day will be on a WEDNESDAY. Children need to come into school wearing their correct PE uniform please.

Please make sure your child brings their book bag in every day.

Their reading book will then be changed every Friday. Please read their book with them every day if possible - little and often is much better than trying to do a lot in one go.

Children also need to bring a labelled water bottle to school each day.

Please make sure your child has their name in any cardigans, jumpers and coats.

Keep an eye on class dojo - we will use this to send home information about school and class events and any information that you need to know. We will also put the word of the day on here each afternoon so that you can discuss it with your child at home after they have learned about it in class.

Any issues please come and see us or send us a message on class dojo.

Mrs Lyon, Mrs Rainey & Mrs Ford x x x