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Year 1 2025
Welcome to Year 1
Miss Zhu and Miss Akhtar make up our Year One team.
Spring Term 2026
English
Our English learning this term will be inspired by the key texts: ‘Katie in London’ and ‘Wild.’
Children will be writing their own adventure story based on a trip to London which ties in nicely with our Geography topic – the UK. They will be encouraged to use descriptive sentences with capital letters and full stops, finger spaces between words and accurate letter formation of a suitable size which sit on the line. They will also learn how to write extended sentences using ‘and.’ Non-fiction writing will be a report about an area of the UK which they would most like to visit.
‘Wild’ will be used as a reading stimulus. Children will explore the book, focusing on events, characters, and settings. Children will answer questions about vocabulary, retrieval questions and questions which require them to read between the lines (use their inference skills)
Please ensure children bring their reading folders to school every day and make a note if your child needs a new book. Please practise reading as much as you can at home to ensure they are confident and have a thorough understanding of their book. Read together, take turns to read, read to a younger sibling or other relative to make it purposeful. Please make sure children have read and re read their books and answered some questions verbally about the key events, characters, and setting.
Children take part in daily phonics sessions, weekly guided reading and regular whole class reading sessions as well as 1:1 reading time with an adult to improve their reading and spelling. You can support with this at home by playing free online games: www.phonicsplay.co.uk (focus on phase 3,4 and 5) and www.monsterphonics.com/games
Maths
This term, children will continue to recognise numbers to 10 with a focus on representing numbers using different structures, exploring where the numbers lie on a number line and identifying the difference between odd and even numbers. Children will also learn Addition and subtraction facts within 10 and will start to focus on recognising the place value of each digit in two-digit numbers and compose and decompose two-digit numbers. Later in term, children will be identifying the previous and next multiple of 10 up to 100.
Theme
In Geography, children will be learning about The United Kingdom of Great Britain. Children will learn about where the UK in located in the world, the four 4 countries of the UK and their capital cities. They will focus on some key landmarks from each country looking at physical and human features. We will be sharing our own experiences of the countries of Great Britain and thinking about places they would most like to visit. We will be using our speaking, listening and reasoning skills to explain our ideas and opinions.
In Science, children will be learning about the human body and our senses. They will draw and label the main parts of the body and explore which body parts are linked to each of the five senses. Children will compare and group body parts, record their findings in simple tables and begin to spot patterns in their results. They will also practice measuring helping them to develop their scientific skills.
Autumn Term 2025
English
We will be reading traditional tales to inspire our learning this term. We are focusing on the traditional tale of ‘The Three Little Pigs’. Children will be exploring the events of the story and engaging in drama activities to act out and retell the story, sequence events and write the story in their own words. We will be focusing on aspects of grammar including nouns and verbs, exploring different examples of these kinds of words and practising using them in the correct contexts.
Children will have a daily phonics session and regular handwriting sessions alongside their English lessons. Our phonics sessions will begin by exploring alternative vowel sounds and beginning to differentiate between spelling rules.
Maths
This term we will be focusing on counting, comparing and ordering objects. We will be developing our use of language such as greater than, less than and equal to explain our thinking and tackle reasoning problems.
We will be developing our understanding of a whole and that a whole can be split into parts. We will also be learning that a whole can represent a group of objects.
Later in the term, we will focus on numbers 0-5. First, we will be learning about ordinal numbers e.g. 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc to show the position of objects. Following this, we will be partitioning numbers to 5 systematically. We will finish the half term by investigating, naming and composing 2d and 3d shapes.
Theme
Throughout this term in science children will be learning about seasonal changes. They will explore the usual types of weather for each season and typical changes in the environment. Children will use pictograms to explore patterns in the weather and climate and will also learn to record and compare the temperature.
In Geography, we will be exploring our local area of Godley and Hyde. We will learn about different houses and buildings in Godley through fieldwork and looking at maps. We will also find out where Godley is located within the world.
Our PE sessions will focus on netball skills, invasion games and gymnastics this half term.
In Art we will be focusing on the artist Bridget Riley and developing our drawing skills. Children will be experimenting with different lines and using a range of media to plan and design their own version of Riley's painting "Arrest 2".