Welcome to Year 1!

Welcome back! We hope that you had a lovely half term break. 

In English, we will be starting off the half term focusing on The Naughty Bus by Jan and Jerry Oke then we will be moving onto The Storm Whale by Benji Davies. We will continue to focus on writing full sentences and we be taking this a step further as we start to use conjunctions to extend our sentences and adjectives to make our writing more exciting. Alongside using our phonics skills in our writing we will also be working on spelling the Year 1 common exception words correctly. A list of these can be found further down the page. 

 In Maths we will be working on numbers 1-50 making sure we can record and order them all correctly before moving on to working on addition and subtraction within these numbers. We will also begin our first measurement units of work as we focus on length, height, mass and volumne and we will also be exploring 2D and 3D shapes.  In Science we will be finding out about materials and our Geography topic is all about the weather. 

Please try to read at home at least 4 times each week and help your child to read and write the tricky words that are on a bookmark at the back of their reading planner. 

To find out more about what we will be learning, please see out 'Curriculum on a Page' document which will give you an overview of our learning across the year. 

Key Information

Our P.E. days for this half term are Monday and Friday. The children will require an indoor kit for these sessions which includes pumps. 

Earrings must not be worn for P.E. If your child cannot take their earrings out, please ensure that they are removed before school on P.E. days. 

Please feel free to make contact at any time with any questions or queries.

Mrs Sharrock and The Year 1 Team