Moving Into Key Stage 1 from Reception

Transition

Moving into Key Stage 1 from Reception

To start with the way the children work will follow a similar format to Reception. This will gradually change during the year but will happen at the pace most appropriate for your child. Play is considered a vital part of your child’s education and will continue as part of their curriculum.

English

Reading – Children will read books from the Oxford Reading Tree scheme and will bring these books home on a weekly basis to share with you. If your child needs to change their book they can do this on any day.

The children will work in Read Write Inc (RWI) Groups four times a week.

Autumn

Non-Fiction – labels, lists, captions and instructions.

Narrative – stories from familiar settings.

Poetry – using senses.

Spring

Non-Fiction – recounts.

Narrative - stories from other cultures, fairy tales, and patterned language.

Poetry – pattern and rhyme

Summer

Non-Fiction – recounts and information texts.

Narrative – stories about fantasy worlds.

Poetry – poems on a theme.

Speaking and Listening

There will be an emphasis on the development of speaking and listening across the curriculum. This will include – news telling, circle time, role-play, social conventions, story telling, descriptions, games and questioning.

Spelling Spectrum

The children will be challenged to improve their spelling by use of the ‘Glynwood Spelling Spectrum’. The children will bring home the Spelling Spectrum Booklet when they are ready to start the challenges. This will explain what the children have to do.

Mathematics

Your child will need to be competent in the following areas of maths if they are to be at the level expected for a year 1 at the end of the year.

·  Count reliably at least 20 objects.

·  Count on and back in ones from any small number, and in tens from and back to zero.

·  Read, write and order numbers from 0 to at least 20; understand and use the vocabulary of comparing and ordering these numbers.

·  Be able to say what is one more or one less than any number between 0 and 30.

·  Understand addition and subtraction and use other related vocabulary.

·  Know by heart all pairs with a total of 10.

·  Use mental strategies to solve simple problems – counting on, addition, subtraction, doubling, halving etc.

·  Compare two lengths, masses or capacities.

·  Be able to suggest units of measurement and equipment for measuring in different situations.

·  Use every day language to describe familiar 2-D and 3-D shapes.

Maths Makes Sense

Many of the concepts the children will be learning will be through ‘Maths Makes Sense’

Shape up in Maths

This our new maths challenge – it is similar to the ‘Spelling Spectrum’ and will be launched in September 2012.

Year 1