Year 1 Teacher

  Miss Portman

                            Year 1 Support Staff

                          Miss Besant Teaching Assistant

We enjoy our Creative Curriculum topics each half term.

Our topics are:

Dinosaur Planet is our first  topic in Year one. What will Year one be learning?

• When and where did dinosaurs live?

• Map work- to locate where dinosaurs (fossils) have been found.

• How the world’s landscape has changed since the dinosaurs.

• How and why the dinosaurs became extinct.

• What dinosaurs looked like and their diets.

• Why are fossils linked to Mary Anning?

Where do I live? This is our second topic in Year one. What will Year one be learning?

•  Map work - Can I locate the UK on a world map?
• Can I name some UK cities and towns as well as local places I may know?
• Can I name and locate the four countries of the UK, their capital cities and the surrounding seas?
• Can I recall famous UK landmarks?

Big lights, Big city- London is our third topic in Year 1. We will  enjoy learning about...

• The difference between a town and a city.
• Who is in the Royal family?
• Investigating the Great Fire of London.
• Discovering who was behind the Gun Powder Plot...
• Creating our own fire engines!

Weather Experts and Habitats is our fourth topic in Year 1. We will...​​​​​​. 

• Create artwork based on The Great Wave by Hokusai.
• Create rain gauges and measure rainfall over a period of time. 
• Explore extreme weather, such as floods and tornadoes. 
• Learn  the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. 
• Learn about hot and cold countries and the animals who live there. 
• Writing facts about the weather. 

Memory Box is our fifth topic in Year 1. Here are some of the things we do!

• To retell traditional tales and read lots of fairy tales! These include Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Billy Goats Gruff, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and The Gingerbread Man.
• Making our own sandwiches in Design and Technology.
• Recreating wallpaper relief artwork inspired by William Morris.
• Learn about all things old and new including: toys, household items and technology.
• Explore our own past through family photographs.

Oceans and Seas is our sixth topic in Year 1. We will be discovering...

• Why we must not to drop litter.
• The different marine habitats!
• Exploring the Barrier Reef!
• Who was Charles Darwin?
• How to use globes and atlases.
• Treasure maps and how to read compass points!

Learning at home.

In Year 1, we would like your child to learn at home, see below tasks and websites:

• Reading 4 times a week in return of some Castle Coins or receiving our Star Reader Award!
• Practising their phonics sounds daily. Alphablocks is a fun educational programme to support this!
• Spellings are set every Wednesday and tested every Monday. Please send in your child's spelling book every Monday to ensure their spellings are changed.
• Times tables - please practice the 2s, 5s and 10s times tables.
• Time - Please practice telling the time using 'o'clock' and 'half past' the hour.
• Letter formation (We use the RWI phonics rhymes). 
• Number bonds to 10, 20 and 100!

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