Year 1 2024 - 2025

Mrs Dennehy

Mrs Blair

Mrs Button

Welcome to Class 1

Summer Term 1

Welcome back everyone. We hope you have all had a peaceful and joyful Easter and are well rested, ready for the busy half term ahead. We look forward to welcoming you back in your Summer uniforms on Tuesday 22nd April.

Our main English focus will be based around a beautiful picture book entitled, 'Toys in Space' by Mini Grey. What happens when you leave your toys out in the garden at night? They get beamed up into space, that's what! We will meet the Cowboy, the WonderDoll, the Dinosaur and all the gang as they travel the stars and help out one lonely alien along the way...The rich, descriptive language in the text and wonderfully detailed illustrations will hopefully inspire some fantastic work.

Phonics will continue daily and sounds covered will be sent home weekly for practise. Our Phonics Screening Check will take place w/c 9th June. Home reading books will continue to reinforce sounds learnt and recognition of tricky 'red' words, alongside devloping comprehension, vocabulary and love of story.

In Maths, we will be looking at place value, recognising 2 digit numbers as tens and ones. We will continue to work on addition and subtraction, including crossing 10, identyfiying 1/10 more or less than any number to 100, and recognising number pairs to 10/20. We will develop recall of number facts, including doubles to 10, and use these to solve simple word problems. We will look at patterns in number, counting in lots of 2, 5 and 10, and learn about odd and even numbers. We will learn about 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4 of a shape, measure and compare length, weight and capacity and look at time to the hour and half past on an analogue and digital clock. We will look at coins and notes and their value and will explore 3D shapes and their properties.

Topic work has a History focus this half term. We will be considering the question 'How do our favourite toys and games compare with those of children in the 1960's?' The decade of the 1960s presents an ideal period of history within living memory for pupils to compare with ways of life today. The first part of the enquiry concentrates on enabling the pupils to gain a sense of the key events and people of the 1960s both in the United Kingdom and globally. Pupils will be able to comprehend that over time toys such as fashion dolls and action figures and games like racing model cars have remained much the same. However, the invention of the internet has led to a major change occurring in many toys and games. As they explore these concepts, pupils are able to spend time understanding the life and contributions of the engineer and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, as well as reflecting upon the importance of maintaining online safety and security when registering and playing with smart toys and games. More details and a useful vocabulary list can be found in the History Knowledge Organiser below.

In Science our topic focus is 'Marvellous Material's'. The children will explore different materials and their properties. We will experiment with why objects are made out of certain materials. The Science Knowledge Organiser contains more details in the link below.

Children will all be given 2 reading books per week and would all benefit from reading every night. Little and often is best! Homework and spellings will be sent out on Fridays to be handed in by the following Tuesday. We really appreciate your support in this matter.

P.E. for Class 1 will be each Monday and Wednesday and the children should come into school wearing their P.E. kits on these days.

Fruit snacks are available daily free of charge. Fairtrade cookies are sold by Year Six children on Wednesdays for 40p and toast is for sale on Fridays for 20p.

Please check the class page regularly for updates and photographs of what we have been getting up to in class.

Each child should have their own login details for both Purple Mash and Active Learn. Both online learning platforms offer a great range of learning activities that children enjoy in school.

Remember if you want to contact us, please use the email address [email protected]

-Many thanks

Mrs Blair and Mrs Dennehy

If you need an extra link to reading activities. The Learn Live Read Channel will feature one Live read every week day at 10.00. Here's the link! https://learnliveuk.com/learn-live-read-channel/

Useful links

Active Learn Login

Purple Mash

Music Links

Mini Music Makers

RNSO music challenges

Stomp Style Body Percussion

Mental Health links:

Please also visit the school's dedicated mental health and well-being page for more information on where to get support.

Welcome to the Class One Learning Hub!

Click on the icons below which will take you straight to the website. The website will give you ideas and activities for their age related learning journey. We will add to this over time. Don't forget to look on Google Classroom for your latest activities!