Year 1

Welcome to The Spring Term!

 

Welcome back to all of the parents  and children of Year 1!  I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas break. We have an exciting term planned with lots of learning and fun to be had and we can’t wait to get started!

I am Who I am

This year ‘BRW Sprit Strong’ continues to be our exciting over arching theme with  ‘I am Who I am’ as our scripture focus. Throughout the year we will encourage the children to be their authentic selves and respect each other as individuals.

Choose Courage Over Fear: How Will You Let Your Spirit Shine This Term?

This term we will be thinking about how we can be creative and curious. The children will be encouraged to dream, dare, believe, achieve to ask questions about the world around them and be adventurous and explore.

As always RE is at the heart of our learning. This term our RE topics are the following:

  • Special People

We will recognise that we are surrounded by people who love and care for us. We will also learn why Jesus is a very special person in all of our families.

  • Meals

We will explore how the parish family gathers for the Eucharistic Feast. We will retell the story of the Last Supper and learn about importance of Holy Communion during the Mass.

  • Change

During Lent, we will learn that during this time we reflect on life and change. We will retell the story of Palm Sunday and find out why we celebrate this special day in church.

 

Year 1 will become historians as we learn about The Great Fire of London and the chain of events that led to the disaster. We will use a range of different sources to learn how people lived in 1666.

Our Geography learning will take us all over the world as we learn about Hot and Cold Places. We will continue to learn how to use globes and atlases to identify these places and identify what differences and similarities there are between them.

Our art skills will be developed as we learn about the artist Sakiri Douglas Camp. We will do some research to find out what mattered to her and how she expressed this within her artwork. We will experiment with using wire to create sculptures inspired by The Great Fire of London.

In PE we will be learning about Fitness and how to keep our bodies healthy and improve our fitness skills. We will also be focusing on Fundamentals such as throwing and jumping. We will learn how to use our force to increase power in our exercises.

In D&T we will learn about axels and create our own water carts. We will take inspiration from the water carts used to put out the Great Fire of London. Lots of our PE will take place outside so please ensure your child has their outdoor PE kit with them every week.

Our English learning will take us deep under the sea as we explore the book “Someone Swallowed Stanley”. We will use talk for writing to retell and innovate this story. We will also think about how it is important for us to protect the world we live in. Our non-fiction writing this term will be a non-chronological report.

Our Maths learning will consist of fluency and problem solving at reasoning within: place value, height and length, mass and volume and addition and subtraction.

Our science lessons will focus on Animals Including Humans. During this we will focus on identifying and classifying animals. We will develop this learning during a visit to Twycross Zoo. We will also look at the changing weather as we continue our topic on Seasons.

During weekly computing sessions, we will continue to learn how to stay safe online and begin to log in to the PCs and select programs. We will also continue to learn typing skills and begin to learn some word-processing skills!

Our Becket music teachers will continue to join us as we deepen our  learning about beat, rhythm and tempo.

There is so much exciting learning coming up this term! We cannot wait to get started!

How To Help At Home

Please ensure that your child always has their reading book and diary in school. Listen to your child read each day and leave a comment in your reading diary. We will also record when your child has taken part in a guided reading session in class.

Always have the correct PE kit in school. This term all children will need an indoor kit (white t shirt and black shorts) and an outdoor kit (warm joggers/leggings, sweatshirt or hoodie, trainers).

Complete weekly homework challenges. This will normally include a maths task, reading and spellings or tricky word reading. Spelling tests will be done every Thursday.

Uniform – Please ensure that every item of clothing is clearly labelled with your child’s name. This makes returning belongings so much easier.

Useful Websites:

https://www.teachyourmonster.org/

Phonics and reading activities in a fun and interactive way.

https://numbots.com/ 

A fun website to develop mathematical recall and fluency in addition and subtraction. regular homework will be set using this website.

Mathletics United Kingdom | Empowering Maths Learning Online

A fun website to help consolidate the learning done in school. Weekly homework will be set on this website.

Thank you for your continued help and support.