Teaching Assistants
Mrs Davis
Welcome back to Year 1- Summer 1 2025
A warm welcome back to the first half of the summer term! It is a short half term with two Bank Holidays. We still have plenty of learning opportunities planned for the next four weeks, and three days, as we launch into our new topic: "How Have Toys Changed?"
In English, the children will be focusing on Toy Story, looking at character and setting descriptions and working on a story mountain planning template, before drafting, editing and publishing their own version of a toy story. The chidren will also be reading the story, Naughty Bus and immitating and writing an innovated version of the story. We will be sending home copies of story maps that we have created, as a whole class, to support with learning the structure of the stories and the text. This will help the children to make simple changes to the story, to make it their own.
A cowboy doll is upset and jealous when a new spaceman action figure becomes the top toy in a boy's bedroom.
A young boy receives a toy bus as a present and has great fun exploring the world with his new toy which turns out to be quite a naughty bus.
Over the half term, we will also be learning:
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- Maths– Measurement: Money Place Value (Within 100),
- Science- Seasonal Changes
- Computing – Programming (Robots)
- RE – What Do Muslims Celebrate?
- DT -
- PSHE – All About Me- My Family, My Body.
- History- How Have Toys Changed?
- PE - Tennis and Athletics.
- Music- Singing and composing.
Knowledge Organisers:
Key Dates for Summer 1-
PE and Outdoor Learning
In the Summer 1 , PE takes place every Tuesday and alternate Thursdays (along with Outdoor Learning).
PLEASE SEND YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL WITH THEIR PE KIT FROM TUES 22nd April. PE kits will remain in school until the end of the half term To promote independence in dressing and for hygiene reasons please DO NOT send your child to school in their PE kit. Outdoor PE kit are also needed as our PE lessons will take place outside weather permitting.
PE kit consists of a plain white t-shirt, black shorts, black jogging bottoms/leggings, trainers/black plimsols, jogging jacket.
EVERY ITEM MUST BE NAMED
The children will take part in Outdoor Learning every other week and they will need wellies, warm clothing and a waterproof coat. Outdoor Learning kit will need to be brought into school (see timetable below) in a named bag.
Please see PE/OL timetable for this half term below:
Homework in Year 1 - Take Care of My Work.
Reading - Each week, we ask that all children read with somebody at home at least three times a week. This could be any adult or an older sibling or friend. Please ensure that reading at home is recorded in the communication diary and signed by an adult. Every little bit of reading really does help children on the learning journey. Children who read at least three times a week will be 'levelled up' on our whole school Good to Be Green system on a Friday.
Spelling - We send home spellings every Friday, which are linked to the 'graphemes' and 'harder to read and spell words', that we have taught that week. We ask that you could spend some time reading and spelling these words at home. We test on the following Friday. Feel free to send in any work you do at home to support with this as we love to celebrate this in the classroom!
Maths - Your child's login details for Numbots and TTRockstars is in their communication diary. Spending 5 mins each day on these applications each week will support your child to develop their number fluency.
TTRockstars Login - https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student
Numbots Login - https://play.numbots.com/#/account/search-school
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