Mrs Willsher, 

Mrs Aldridge and Mrs Fox

Science –  This term we will be asking these questions,

Can I identify and observe seasonal changes - Exploring how seasonal changes affect trees, weather patterns and daylight hours. 

Can I identify the properties of everyday materials - Comparing and grouping materials based on their properties. 

History - This term we will be asking this question,

How am I making history? - exploring our own histories and learning about how different childhood was in the past. 

Geography - This term we will be asking this question,

What is it like here? - finding where we are on a map and exploring features of a map and drawing our own. 

Art - This term we will be asking this question,

Can I make marks in a variety of ways? - This unit helps pupils to understand and use different line types and mark-making techniques in drawing; enhancing children's ability to describe lines, control drawing materials like pencils and chalk, and experiment with various media, while responding to music.   

DT - This term we will be asking these questions,

How do I construct a windmill? - using materials to create a stable structure. 

How do I construct a moving story book? - Exploring slider mechanisms and the movement they output to design, make and evaluate a moving storybook. 

Music - This term we will be asking these questions,

What is the difference between pulse and rhythm? - Children explore keeping the pulse together through music and movement, by exploring their favourite things. 

Can I use musical vocabulary? - Through fairytales, children are introduced to the concept of sound patterns (rhythms). They explore clapping along to repeated words and phrases, creating rhythmic patterns to tell a familiar fairytale. 

Computing - This term we will be asking these questions,

How do I use a mouse? - developing mouse skills by learning how to log in and navigate around a computer while creating digital artwork. 

What are algorithms? - learning what an algorithm is and how to precisely carry actions and debug an algorithm. 

PE  

This term we will be learning: fundamental movement skills, attacking and defending, tennis and circuit training. Holly Class PE days will be Wednesday and Friday. Please come to school in full PE kit including a t-shit in your house colour. 

Class Homework

• Daily Reading
• Weekly spellings to learn - Spelling shed logins sent home
• Termly Foundation Subject homework grid
• Watch Phonics Lesson Videos daily

Upload photos of completed homework to your child's portfolio on ClassDojo

Home Learning Support

Click here to login to Teach a Monster to Read.

Click here to login to Spelling Shed.
Click here to login to Oxford Owl.
 

Useful Information

We will have daily English, Guided Reading, Spelling, Handwriting and RWI lessons to work on our reading, writing, spelling, and phonic knowledge, as well as our daily Maths lessons. We will continue to secure our knowledge and understanding of numbers, shape measures, time, problem-solving, and many other skills. 

Our two PE sessions throughout the week will be on a Wednesday and Friday. Please ensure your child wears their named, correct PE kit in school on these days, appropriate for the weather, and that earrings are not worn and hair is tied back to avoid injuries. 

Year 1 Phonics Screen Check:

Every child in Year 1 is required to take the Phonics Screening Check in June. The Children learn and practise phonics everyday as part of the Read Write Inc scheme. They also have plenty of opportunities to embed their learning within the classroom. The following links may be useful:

• Phonics guide for parents by the Department of Education https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/learning-to-read-through-phonics-information-for-parents
• Oxford Owl www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ 
• Phonics www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/
• Phonics https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ 
• Phonics https://www.phonicsbloom.com/
• Phonics http://www.oxfordphonicschecksupport.co.uk/ 
• Teach Your Monster to Read https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/ (logins stuck into your child's reading record)
• Phonemes www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/sandcastle 
• Spelling Shed https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/  (logins stuck into your child's reading record)