Welcome to Year 1

Welcome to our Year 1 Web Pages.  We're excited for our Spring term and have lots of exciting learning ahead of us.  Here is what we will be learning about this term:

• Our main history topic this term is 'School Days'. We will be learning about our school and community, both today and in the past. We will be comparing schooling in the Victorian era to the children's experiences today.
• In phonics, we are continuing to work incredibly hard each day to learn new sounds and tricky words. We will also be introducing the children to reading some 'alien' words to help them with their upcoming phonics screening check next half term.
• In English, we will be developing our skills in sentence writing, in particular we will be working on writing sentences in stories, list poems and letters. 
• Our learning in maths will focus on counting in steps of 2, 5 and 10 as well as working on the first steps in multiplication (arrays), division (sharing), money, and time (o'clock and half past). 
• In science, this term we will be learning to identify and describe the basic parts of plants and observe how they change over time.
• In art, we will be learning about artwork depicting the streets and buildings and focuses on the work of American pop artist, James Rizzi. 
• In computing, the children will be working on their word processing skills, using the 2Simple program and Microsoft Word. 
• In PE, we will be learning bat and ball skills in tennis and moving onto athletics after the half term break. 

Please watch out for regular updates on Piota where you can see our amazing children in Year 1 working, playing and learning together.  

Meet The Teacher

Things you can help with at home:

• Practising reading and enjoying talking about books and other kinds of text.
• Telling and sharing stories.
• Letter  and number formation - It is crucial that the children are starting their letters in the right place.  Please see document above on letter formation.
• Practising phoneme cards.
• Cutting skills and any fine motor-skills.  

New Reading Books ...

Oxford Reading Owl has some e books that you can access for your children to read new material at their current reading level. 

You do have to sign up but is free and you will be able to access new e books.  Of course this is not the same as holding a real book but it is another way to engage your child in reading.    We hope this link is of use to you.  Remember you are looking for "ebooks."

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk

Also there's a whole range of stories for children to listen to for free on:

                       audible.com