Welcome to the Summer term in Year 1!

St Clare

Welcome our Year 1 page! I hope you had a fantastic Easter holiday and are looking forward the summer term and all of the learning and fun we will have in Year 1. 

On our class page you will be able to find information about this term's learning.

Important Information 

Key Dates:

1N - PE- Monday (outdoor) and Friday (indoor)

Class Assembly- March 6, 2024

Home Learning and Book Bags

Book bags will be sent home with a new reading book each Wednesday and these should be returned by the following Wednesday. The reading books will be changed each week. Home learning projects will be set each term linked to pupils class learning. These should be completed throughout the term in learning logs or on Seesaw. Home learning will be shared in class in the final week of the term, where the children will be able to celebrate their learning with their class. 

Water bottles

Water bottles should be clearly labelled with your child's name and brought into class on Mondays, these will then be returned to go home for a wash and clean on Fridays. The children have access to their water bottles throughout the day and are filled every morning with fresh water. 

Reading, Phonics and Spellings

We will be using the Reading Eggs website to support the children's learning in Phonics and Reading and this should be accessed at home to help them consolidate their spelling of sounds/words, as well as their fluency and understanding of books read.. 

PE

Children should come into school wearing their PE kits on their specific days. Please ensure your child's name is in all items of clothing including their basic school uniform. If your child's name is not on their items of clothing this makes it very difficult to locate lost items. If you are unsure of what your child needs for their PE kit please see our School uniform policy.

Religion

This term we will first be learning about holidays and holy days, being sorry, and neighbours.  We will learn about what makes holidays and holy days special and celebrate the different and similar ways we all celebrate holidays and holy days. We will specifically focus on the Pentecost and the importance of this holy day.  Following our unit on holidays/ holy days we will be learning about being sorry. In our sorry lessons we will discuss the sacrament of reconcilitation and that we choice – sometimes we choose well, and sometimes wrong but god will always forgive us if we ask for forgiveness. The final unit of this term is focused on neighbours. The class will learn that everyone in the world is our neighbour and should be treated with dignity. We will discuss the things we can do to be kind to our neighbours and the world. 

English

In Literacy, we will be focusing on letter formation, handwriting and sentence structure.  We will be practising using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops with independence. The children will practise these skills through a range of genres including retells, instructions and group work. We will be using texts to support our developing writing. These will include traditional tales and stories with predictable phrases. 

Maths

This term, we will begin learning about multiplication and division within 50, fractions, geometry (position and direction),place value within 100, and Measurement- with a specific focus on money. Later in the term we will begin learning about time. 

Please continue to help your child by practicing number formation and writing numbers up to 100. 

Science

In Science, we will be learning all about animals including humans! We will be identifying different types of animals and how they are categorized, focus on words such as omnivore, herbivore, and carnivore! The children will have the opportunity to create their own animal habitat and discuss the importance of treating our planet better so that its a nice place for all animals to live.

Topic

In Geography we will be learning about the UK. The children will apply their knowledge of maps from last terms unit on local area to a larger scale of identifying the UK on different maps and discussing the different countries and capital cities of the UK. Children will expand their observation and reasoning skills through writing descriptive sentences and verbally explaining the different countries in the UK as well as the important geographic features in each country. At the end of the unit, the children will have a chance to create their own fact file on a country of their choice! 

PSHE

Throughout the spring term we will be working through our module 'Created to Live in the Community'. This unit explores how we can be kind to others and our world. Building on the understanding that we have been created to spread kindness to ourself and to others, this module explores how we can appreciate the world around us and help to support it.

Home Learning

Learning logs will be sent home at the beginning of the term. The children will then get the opportunity to share the work they have done with their peers and celebrate their home learning in class at the end of the term. Home learning can be shared through Seesaw rather than the learning log and this will also be shared in class. 

Reading

Reading is an integral part of our school day. As well as a daily designated class reading time the children will access a wide range of texts throughout the day. They will have opportunities to read texts during shared teaching, as part of a small group and individually. Your child will read with an adult in school at least once a week during a guided reading session.  

It is important that your child brings their reading book into school every day so that we can maximise additional opportunities for them to read. Please encourage your child to read every day at home and make it a special time together. 

Please can you sign the reading record when you have read and discussed the book with your child. Children also need to complete the reading activities in the log book. The reading books will be changed at least once a week. Remember little and often is the best way to develop a love for reading!

Phonics

We will be teaching phonics daily using the scheme Little Wandle. The children will be learning new sounds and practising their blending and segmenting skills, which will support in their reading and writing. Each week, the children will be given different spellings related to what the focus is in their group that week. The spellings will be sent home as part of their weekly home learning and there will be a spelling quiz of these words the following week. 

For supporting any home learning relating to Phonics, you should use Fast Phonics, which can be accessed through the Reading Eggs website. Your Reading Eggs login will be sent home at the beginning of the half-term. It has lots of interactive phonics games, videos and books to read.

Fast Phonics is an online systematic, synthetic phonics programme built to support children in practicing learning from phonics lessons in school. Through games, pupils will practice blending sounds together to make words and segmenting words into phonemes for spellings. They will then read fully decodable books to reinforce the new skills learned. This is a excellent resources to support children in building their phonics awareness and fluency.

More information and a link to the website can be found below:

https://readingeggs.co.uk/fast-phonics-games/

Phonics Play is another fantastic website with lots of free games/resources. 

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

Seesaw

Here are some video links for how to use Seesaw... 

How to use the Seesaw app for students http://bit.ly/35dQz8J

How to use Seesaw in browsers for students http://bit.ly/38dU0xR

Curriculum Overview

Links to Online apps and websites

Reading Eggs

www.reading eggs.co.uk

Logins for Reading Eggs have been sent via ParentMail but there will be a slip of paper with your child's details for this website in their book bags too. 

Here are some video links for how to use Seesaw... We are excited to see the learning you share on our Seesaw Remote Learning page!

How to use the Seesaw app for students http://bit.ly/35dQz8J

How to use Seesaw in browsers for students http://bit.ly/38dU0xR