Year One
Welcome to Year One with Miss Jones and Mrs Spencer
Welcome back!
I hope that you are ready for lots of new and exciting learning opportunities over this final term.
Reading Reading and phonics continue to be 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. We are continuing to practise our decoding skills to best prepare the children for the Phonics Screening Check that will take place this term. 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 significantly improve their reading skills and confidence. 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. This term the children will have more independent writing opportunities to retell stories that are well known to them in preparation for Year 2.
Maths
We will begin the year by covering the topics multiplication and division, fractions, place value within 100, money and time. 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
In science we will be learning all about the seasons and the sesonal changes that happen in deciduous trees and animals. We will learn about the different weather patterns that happen in each season. We will learn how to record temperature, rainfall and wind. The children will learn to Identify and describe the basic structure of a common flowering plants and understand the job of each part of the plant.
History
In this topic we are going to find out about three of the most famous queens that each ruled this country for a very long time. Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria. We will learn how Queen Elizabeth I fought off an invasion, Queen Victoria saw Britain become the most powerful country in the world and Queen Elizabeth II managed to hold the country together at a time of major change in which Britain became less important in the world. By the end of the topic the children will understand that each queen had a very different personality but they were all popular and did their best for their people.
Art This term we will be learning about the French Impressionist artist Claude Monet. We will practise skills such as colour mixing and stippling to enable us the create our own version of Monet’s Water Lilies painting as a final piece.
PE Our P.E sessions this half term will take place every Monday. We will be covering Orienteering and football this term. We are very excited to have our football lessons taught by Rotherham United this term! Please could you ensure that earrings are removed or covered on our P.E day 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 our topic is called What do Christians believe God is like? The children will learn how Jesus told his followers many stories to help them understand God and that a story such as this is known as a parable. We will learn about the Parable of the Lost Son, in this story a man has a son who leaves home and spends all of his money, he is often known as the prodigal son. When he goes home his father welcomes him home and is loving and forgiving to him. This shows that God will forgive people who come back to him because he is loving and caring as he is The Father who created the world and everyone in it. We will learn that anyone can ask God for forgiveness, and they will be welcomed back into God’s family. Our second topic is called 'How should we care for the world and for others and why does it matter?' We will learn how Christian and Jewish people believe that God created the world and the people in it. They believe that God created people in His Image. The children will understand that this means that everybody on earth is different and unique, and we are all part of the worldwide community.
PSHE In PSHE we will be learning all about relationships. The children will learn about who is special to them and to recognise their qualities as a person as well as what it means to be a good friend. The changing me unit helps us to recognise the changes that we have been through from being a baby to now. Children will understand that growing up is natural and that everybody grows at different rates. The children will also learn about different parts of the body and understand which parts are private.
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 will also have maths homework every other week in addition to a reading or phonics job. All communication will be posted on Class Dojo, so please check regularly to stay up to date with what’s happening in school.
If you have any queries about anything, please don’t hesitate to ask. Thank you Miss Jones
