Year 1
Welcome to our Year 1 learning page. This half term our topic is 'Sea Explorers'. Our young learners are diving into an exciting ocean adventure as Sea Explorers! Through our sea-themed learning journey, children will discover fascinating underwater worlds, explore amazing sea creatures, and learn about the importance of caring for our oceans.
Stay tuned for lots of pictures of our brilliant learning from throughout the half term.
PE days
Class 4– Wednesday and Thursday
Class 5– Wednesday and Friday
Class 6 – Tuesday and Friday
We love learning in Year 1
In Year 1, we follow an engaging, broad and balanced curriculum. We love practical learning, as you can see from these photos! In Maths, we follow Maths Mastery to ensure that no learners are left behind. We use manipulatives to deepen our understanding of key concepts and we love to explore and reason within mathematics. We have also been making use of our local area to develop our map reading skills. As well as that, we have started learning about online safety and how to stay safe in the increasingly digital age that we are living in.
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Reading
At St Georges School, we focus on the importance of developing a love of reading from an early age. In Year 1, we are accessing high quality texts including 'The mousehole cat.' 'The lighthouse keepers lunch' 'The lighthouse story, Holly James', 'The selfish crab' 'A whale of a time Poems.' 'The Girl and the mermaid' and 'Blobfish'.
We use Little Wandle to deliver high quality, effective phonics to ensure that every child has the ability to be a fluent reader by the end of Key Stage 1 and beyond!
Writing
In English, we are linking our fantastic writing to our 'Sea explorers' topic. The children are completing a range of texts linked to this. We will be writing stories inspired by The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch. After this, we will be writing factfiles about lighthouses. We will finish the term by recouting the story of Grace Darling.
Mathematics
At St Georges School, we are dedicated to the Maths Mastery approach to teaching and learning. Year 1 have started the year by building fundamental skills involving place value. We will be developing our addition and subraction skills this half term too. We use a range of manipulatives to support this learning and to deepen our understanding. Soon, we will be applying these skills to addition and subtraction. We also ensure that reasoning skills are developed in every maths lesson.
We have also started an exciting new scheme called 'Mastering Number', which aims to devleop childrens fluency and understanding of core numeracy skills.
Wider Curriculum
We will be linking our wider curriculum learning to our topic 'Sea Explorers'. In Year 1, we have a broad and balanced curriculum where we will be developing our skills in Science, Art, DT, Music, PE, Computing, RE, DT and PSHE throughout the term. We also love to make our learning cross curricular wherever possible, and will soon be receiving an exciting visit fro the Royal National Lighthouse Institution (RNLI)! We can't wait to share photos from this exciting day on our website page!