Year 1 Welcome

Welcome to Year 1

Welcome back! I hope you all had a fantastic May half term! We are ready for our final term and are so excited to have you back, we can’t wait to continue with our learning.

For English this term, we will be studying the text ‘Goldilocks and Just the One Bear’ by Leigh Hodgkinson. A funny and clever fractured fairy tale based on the familiar story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This story follows Little Bear who wanders out of his fairy tale and into the big city where Goldilocks lives. There is one problem, Goldilocks is all grown up! She has a family and a rather smart apartment. Children will see what happens when Goldilocks finds the bear in her apartment scoffing all her porridge! During our new exciting text, children will have the opportunity to write some verses of a poem, use sentences to write a setting description, learn about proper nouns and how to use them and use their previous knowledge of adjectives to describe characters. Children will also be involved in role play and drama trying to understand the view point of the Little Bear when he gets to Goldilocks apartment. They will also work towards an independent write in which children will write a new version of the story with a new character or setting.

For maths this term, we will focus on place value to 100. Children will learn to count forwards and back wards using much higher numbers and learn how to use their 100 square. We will learn one more, one less and placing higher numerals on a number line including missing numbers too. After this, children will learn about money and time to finish our summer term. Here, children will learn about recognising coins including 20p 50p £1 and £2. They will also learn how to recognise notes and the value of notes. During our learning on time, children will revisit days of the week and months of the year. We will then move onto hours, minutes and seconds. We will learn how to tell the time by the hour and by half and hour. During our last term, children will also learn to solve problem and reason when answering questions. Children will also have the opportunity to be involved in active maths lessons in which we will take our maths outside come rain or shine!

In science, our topic this term will be ‘Seaside Objects’ in which children will learn about objects found on the beach, this including natural and man made objects. Children will use their knowledge from term one when we learned about materials. They will have the opportunity to explore various beach objects and use their senses. Children will have a chance to visit New Brighton beach for our school trip in which we will collect seaside objects like shells, rocks, stone and dry seaweed. We will explore and identify the objects and collect data to record back at school.

Things to remember

Our PE days will continue to be on a TUESDAY. Children need to come into school wearing their correct PE uniform.

Please make sure your child brings their book bag in every day as we will be reading with your child throughout the week. Their reading book will then be changed every Friday.

Children also need to bring a labelled water bottle to school each day.

Miss Roberts and Mrs Keenan x