Year one topics

Hello children and parents!

Welcome to Whales! Our team is... 

Mrs Cotton (Class Teacher)

Mrs Harrison (Teaching assistant and ELSA Support) 

Miss Penny (Teaching assistant)

Miss Spencer (Teaching assistant)

Mrs Dodd (Teaching assistant) 

As a Key Stage 1 team, we have gathered together some very useful website links, resources and ideas of activities for you to use at home to help with your learning. 

In Year 1/2 the children learn through a range of exciting and interesting topics. We love working practically to engage and motivate the children to build on their foundation stage experience.

Children will learn English through the Read Write Inc programme so that they are well prepared for their Phonics Screening check in June. We also provide a range of Maths opportunities for the children to problem solve and become more confident and fluent when working with mathematical concepts. We introduce the learning in Year 1/2 by using a continuous provision approach that embeds the national curriculum objectives through play and problem solving. 

In our topics we will cover National Curriculum objectives in History, Geography, Science, the Arts (Music, Drama, Art, Dance) DT, RE, PE, Computing, Please see above for our termly themes.

Home learning

other learning ideas 

READING -

We suggest your child should read at least 3 times a week and continue to record this in their organiser. This will still count towards any current reading challenges in school. Create a quiz to check your child’s understanding or what they have read and the questions in the back of the RWI books are really useful. Can they write some sentences about the story or what they have found out from a non fiction book? Don't forget that reading recipes and instructions for games are good chances for reading practice too. Other examples are comics, magazines, subtitles and online blogs.

Inside the organiser, there are a small number of resources which can be used to help further develop the children's learning of shapes, spellings, and many other things.

Please see the nonsense word list to practice reading nonsense words ready for the Phonics Screening Check. More practice for the Phonics Screening Check will be issued from January.

WRITING –

For spelling practice, please see the Year 1/2 Spelling List. Children should be able to read and spell all of the words on the list. For further extension, try to read and spell the months of the year and number words eleven to twenty.

Spellings will be given out weekly.

MATHS – Engage with the ‘Lesson’ and ‘Homework’ sections of the activities set on the MyMaths website (https://login.mymaths.co.uk/). This includes re-visiting both sections of tasks already set in order to consolidate learning from earlier in the year, and completing recently-set tasks.

If your child is in Year 2, they will have their TT Rockstars login. Please practice their x2, x5 and x10 times tables with them.

SCIENCE – 

Our project homework letter often suggests homework tasks that are linked to our science topics. At home, why not make a rain gauge and keep a record of the amount of rainfall? With your child, keep a weather diary, and watch weather reports and practice being a weather reporter in front of an audience. 

Can you go on a bug hunt and spot the minibeasts in your garden or local park? Maybe you could build a bug hotel! 

Thank you for supporting your child's education at home.