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 topic this term is “Bright Lights, Big City". We will be using lots of geographical skills to find out the physical and human characteristics of the United Kingdom. It will include a detailed exploration of the characteristics and features of the capital city, London.
• In English, we will be developing our skills in sentence writing - focusing on letter formation, capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. 
• Our learning in maths with focus on place value (to 20 and 50), addition, subtraction, length and height, mass and volume,
• In science this term we will be teaching about the seasons, seasonal changes and typical seasonal weather and events. 
• In art, we will be learning about collagraphs and learn how to print simple and repeating patterns.
• In computing, the children will be giving a list of instructions and programming a small floor robot.

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

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