We’re going to be busy in Y1 this term!

This term, our topic will be ‘If you go down to the woods today…’. The children will be completing the following activities:

  • Exploring the outdoor environment and they will be nature detectives
  • Going on their own Bear Hunt
  • Creating their own woodland clay animals
  • Exploring habitats
  • Learning how to read and create maps and symbols

In maths, children will be:

  • Recognising, ordering and counting numbers to at least 20.
  • Revising 1 more and 1 less than
  • Recognising different coins and giving change
  • Familiarising themselves with the operation signs ( +, - and =)
  • Doubling and halving numbers
  • Learning days of the week and months of the year
  • Naming and describing 2D and 3D shapes
  • Counting to 100

In English, the children will be:

  • Taught what a sentence is and will try to use capital letters and full stops.
  • Encouraged to say a sentence before writing.
  • Learning Phase 5 Phonics.
  • Trying to sound out words, using their spelling fingers
  • Learning and performing The Bear Hunt, Golidilocks and The Three Bears and a simple recount, by heart.
  • Creating story maps, to help aid writing.
  • Using ‘talk for writing’ techniques to change familiar texts.

Ways to help your childat home:

  • Please read as much as possible and make a note of the page number in the reading diary and sign to say that they have read. This will lead to your child making very good progress.
  • Notice 2D (flat shapes that you can’t pick up) and 3D (shapes that we can pick up) in the local environment.
  • Get children to recognise coins and discuss their value. They could pay for things at the shop etc.
  • Count as much as possible from any given number, this could be done in the car, whilst walking etc.
  • Revise number and letter formation and recognition.
  • Get children to count things out/share things out.
  • Notice language in the environment (E.g. Menus, signs, magazine, leaflets).
  • Ensure that they are dressing by themselves.

Dates to remember:

Phonics Workshop – 19th September

Readers’ Morning - starts 29thSeptember

Harvest Assembly – 5th October (time to be confirmed)

Parents’ Evening - October 16th& 18thOctober

Book Weekweek commencing 16th October, including non-uniform on Friday 20th October (book related costume ‘Where’s Wally’) –