Year 1
Welcome to our Year 1 learning page. This half term our learning journey is Strolling Through the Seasons, where we will be exploring the changing weather and how it affects the world around us. The children will be observing, discussing and collecting weather data, helping them to build their understanding of seasonal changes. In writing, we will be getting creative with weather-inspired poetry, learning to write clear instructions by explaining how to make a warm cup of hot chocolate to enjoy around a campfire, and finishing with recounts of our exciting campfire experience. It promises to be a cosy, creative and curiosity-filled half term with lots of opportunities for hands-on learning and imaginative writing.
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 'Lila and the secret rain' , 'Trees: Seasons come and go' 'After the storm', 'Little Gooses Autumn', 'One Year With Kipper' and 'There is a season'.
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 Strolling through the seasons topic. The children are completing a range of texts linked to this. We will be writing weather inspired poetry to kick start the half term. After this, we will be learning about instruction writing. We will write instructions for 'How to make a hot chocolate for a campfire' which will link to our campfire experience. We will finish the term by writing recounts about our camp fire experience.
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 will also be starting 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 'Strolling through the seasons'. 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 engaging with an exciting animal VR day! We can't wait to share photos from this exciting day on our website page!