Welcome to Year 1

      
Welcome to Year 1- Spring 1

Happy New Year one and all and a warm welcome back to the start of the spring term! We have many more learning opportunities planned for the next six weeks, as we launch into our next topic:
'How Did The Great Fire Change London?'

Throughout this topic the children will be finding out, reasearching and writing about the Great Fire, discussing things they would have been seen, heard, and smelt. In English lessons, we will be focusing on the text: 'Vlad and The Great Fire of London.' by Kate Cummings. The children will be creating story maps, orally performing the story, creating and writing their own narrative version of Vlad and the Great Fire of London as well as writing newspaper reports of the events as tthey unfolded. 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 story and the newspaper report. This will help the children to make simple changes to the story and reprot and to make it their own. The children will be using the main text along with the other texts, to promote discussion  and using them to inspire writing in other areas of the curriculum. History will of course be a main focus.

We will be sending home copies of story maps, as a whole class, to support with learning as well as weekly diary inserts explaining the areas of writing we are covering the following week. The children will also be using the main texts along with the other texts, linked to the topic, to promote discussion and to inspire writing in other areas of the curriculum. 

Vlad and The Great Fire of London- It is 1666 and Vlad the flea and his friend Boxton the rat, love eating and biting their way around London. But one night in Pudding Lane they are caught up in a fire that threatens to destroy them, along with most of the City of London.

Over the half term, we will also be learning:

• Maths–  Number: Place Value(Within 50), Number: Addition and Subtraction (within 20)- Consolidation of addition and subtraction (within 20) and Number Place Value (within 50) 
• Science- Everyday Materials and Seasonal Change- Winter into Spring
• Computing –  Keyboard Skills
• RE –  What Did Jesus Teach Us?
• DT -  Construction of Tudor Houses
• PSHE – Living in the Wider World
• History- The Great Fire of London
• PE - Gynmnastics and Football (AW)
• Music- Compose, chant, sing, play untuned instruments.

 Knowledge Organisers:

Key Dates for Spring 2

PE and Outdoor Learning

Please bring the correct PE kit and Outdoor Learning kit, to school, on the following days:

PE kits consist of PLAIN black shorts or jogging bottoms, PLAIN white t-shirt, and trainers. 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 in a named bag. 

Please bring PE kits into school at the beginning of the half term and leave them in school until the end of the half term. This ensures that PE kit is in school when needed.

Housekeeping 

Please ensure that everything that your child brings to school (including OL kit, PE kit, hats, scarves, gloves and water bottles) has their name on it. This will help us return any lost property.

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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