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Year 1 2025
Welcome to Year 1
Mrs Gates and Miss Akhtar make up our Year One team.
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".