Year One

Welcome to Year One with Miss Jones and Mrs Spencer

I am looking forward to this new school year. There will be lots of new and exciting learning opportunities over the coming weeks.

Reading Reading and phonics are a priority in Year One. Please support the work that we are doing in class by encouraging your child to further practise their reading skills at home, through the phonics videos that are sent on Class Dojo, as well as their phonics reading book. It is expected that children should read at home on a daily basis as part of their homework, listening to your child read for just five minutes each day can have a significant impact on their reading skills. Book bags are needed in school every day and books will be changed in our class library weekly. Thank you for your support in this.

Literacy In literacy, writing is based around your child’s phonics reading book and we teach writing through the Read Write Inc. Get Writing scheme. We encourage the children to apply the sounds that they know in their writing through transcription activities and composing sentences independently.

Maths
We will begin the year by focusing on place value, followed by addition and subtraction and shape. If you want to further assist your child in this area, you can help your child to learn the half termly Key instant recall facts that are available on the website.

Science
Our topic in science this half term is Everyday Materials. Children will learn. The children will be able to understand that materials are what objects are made from. They will also be able to know the difference between human made materials and natural materials. We are also learning about the human body and senses. The children will learn about the similarities and differences in humans. They will be able to label various parts of the body and understand how they function.

History
In history, we will be exploring The Great Fire of London. The children will learn when, how and why the Great Fire occurred as well as developing an understanding of how a fire like this could have been prevented. We also have a special visitor from the past coming into our class, William Pepys, who kept a diary throughout the events of The Great fire. The children will get to re-enact events from the Great Fire of London.

Art Lowry is our focus artist for this half term, we will learn all about him. The children will recognise some of his pieces of art and learn about the difference between background and foreground and how to draw objects using this knowledge. The children are working towards drawing buildings from the local area.

PE Our P.E sessions this half term will take place every Tuesday. Please could you ensure that earrings are removed or covered on these days so that your child is able to take part in the lesson as we cannot remove or cover these in school. Thank you.

RE This half term the children are learning all about the creation story and what God created on each of the 7 days. They will learn about the different ways that Christians say thank you to God. Next half term, the children will learn why Christmas is important to Christians and how Christians use the weeks in the run up to Christmas, advent, to prepare for the celebration of the birth of Jesus. We will learn to understand people and the events of the Christmas story.

PSHE In this unit, the children are introduced to their Jigsaw Journals and discuss their Jigsaw Charter. As part of this they discuss rights and responsibilities, choices and consequences. The children talk about being special and how to make everyone feel safe in their class as well as recognising their own safety.

Homework A pack of spellings has been sent home for your child to practise weekly, please follow the guidance on the front of the spelling pack. There will be a spelling test every Thursday. As well as weekly spellings, children may also have maths, phonics or topic homework to complete.

If you have any queries about anything, please don’t hesitate to ask.  All communication will be posted on Class Dojo, so please check regularly to stay up to date with what’s happening in school.

Thank you

Miss Jones 

Year One

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