Year 1

Welcome to Year 1

Mrs Gates and Miss Shaw make up our Year One team.

Autumn Term 2024

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 to 100. We will be counting lots of objects to begin with ensuring 1:1 correspondence and accurate counting. We will be focusing on familiarising ourselves with the pattern of numbers, practising counting on an back from different numbers and recognising patterns in numbers on the hundred square. Children will also learn to count objects by grouping the objects into tens. Children will become familiar with the hundred square and explore the value of 2-digit numbers.

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".

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