Welcome to Year 1

                                                           Mrs Keeling                                 Mrs Stanley

                                                                                                                          Snapdragon Class Teacher           Honeysuckle Class teacher 

          Teaching Assistants             

         Miss King                              Miss Hydes                             Miss Langham                           Mrs Davis                             Mrs Westerman                 Miss McDonnall                                                                                                

Welcome back to Year 1- Summer 1

Welcome back to the first half of the summer term! We have many more learning opportunities planned for the next six weeks, as we launch into our new topic:- 'How Have Toys Changed?"

Throughout this topic the children will be finding out, reasearching and writing about the history of toys.'  In English lessons, we will be focusing on the layout of the film story 'Toy Story' and the text 'Naughty Bus by Jan and Jerry Oke. The children will be creating story maps, orally performing the story, writing character and setting descriptions, introduce a story mountain, use the suffix -ing to describe the bus in a setting and of course creating their own stories. 

We will be sending home copies of story maps and instructions that we have created, as a whole class, to support with learning. The children will be using the main text along with the other texts, linked to the topic, to promote discussion and to inspire writing in other areas of the curriculum. 

Toy Story: Andy's favourite toy, Woody, is worried that after Andy receives his birthday gift, a new toy called Buzz Lightyear, his importance may get reduced. He thus hatches a plan to eliminate Buzz.           
Naughty Bus: 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:

• • Maths–  Number: Place Value (Within 100), Time, Money
  • Science- Seasonal Changes
  • Computing –  Programming
  • RE –  What Do Muslims Celebrate?
  • DT -  Textiles
  • PSHE – Living In The Wider World- Aiming High
  • History- Toys Today, Family Favourites, Early 20th Century Toys, Victorian Toys, Important Changes, Toy Box
  • PE - Tennis and Athletics.
  • Music- Singing and Composing

 Knowledge Organisers:

Key Dates for Summer 1

PE and Outdoor Learning

PE takes place every Wednesday and alternate Thursdays (along with Outdoor Learning). 

 PLEASE SEND YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL WITH THEIR PE KIT FROM MON 15th April. PE kits will remain in school until Friday 20th May. 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.

 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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