Welcome to Year 1

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

Our main history-focused 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 consolidate their reading skills.
• In English, we will be developing our skills in sentence writing – focusing on letter formation, capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. 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) and division (sharing).
• In science, this term, we will learn to identify and describe the basic parts of plants and to observe how they change over time.
• In art, we will learn about artwork depicting streets and buildings and focus on the work of the American pop artist, James Rizzi. 
• In computing, the children will work on their word processing skills using the 2 Simple program and Microsoft Word.

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.
• Cutting skills and any fine motor-skills.