Welcome to our page for Year 1 children!

 

Our teachers are: Miss. Leavey

Our curriculum this year is: Year 1 Curriculum Map

 

Autumn 1 2023

I am so pleased to be joining the Kingsfield team this year and look forward to getting to know the children and families in Year 1. We will be focusing on the topic Toys over Time. We will be reading two story books over this half term which are ‘Lost in the Toy Museum’ by David Lucas and ‘Dogger’ by Shirley Hughes. We will use these to help us write adventure stories and non-chronological reports. In our Maths lessons, we will be learning about place value, addition and subtraction within 10, ensuring that all children have a deep understanding of number within 10 and understand how to use resources to support their calculations. In Science, we will be investigating Everyday Materials. We will identify and name a variety of everyday materials such as wood, plastic, glass, metal, rock, paper and fabric. We will take part in practical activities to investigate the properties of these materials and ask questions such as ‘which material is waterproof?’. In PE, we will be taking part in activities around fundamentals in games, multi skills and gymnastics. P.S.H.E. lessons will encourage and support us to explore ours and other people’s emotions and feelings whilst also considering appropriate ways to manage and express them. We focus heavily on Phonics and Reading in Year 1, so children will take part in three short phonics sessions per day, allowing us to practise and apply our skills. Reading is an essential part of the curriculum and your continued support with reading at home is vital.

Summer 2 2023

This half term our cross-curricular topic will be ‘Our World’. We will also be learning about the continents and oceans in Geography and will be focusing on human and physical features. In Science, we will be identifying and describing the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.   In Maths, we will be exploring geometry: position and direction, statistics and fractions. In PSHE, we will be thinking about economic wellbeing and will learn where money comes from and how to keep it safe. In PE, during the half term, we will be practising attacking and defending skills and will be following the Cambs Scheme on the fundamentals of multi-skills. In English, will be looking at Paddington Bear and story writing. Reading and Phonics are a particular focus in Year 1. Daily reading is vital to your child’s continued development and access to the curriculum. Your continued support in this is essential.

Summer 1 2023

This half term our cross-curricular topic will be ‘Kings and Queens’. In English, will be focusing on fairy tales and story writing. We will also be learning about the monarchy in History. This will culminate in a Year 1 celebration of the King's Coronation. In Science, we will be studying plants: identifying and naming a variety of common wild and garden plants and describing their structure. In Maths, we will be exploring multiplication and division as well as time and money. In PSHE, we will be thinking about how we can keep ourselves safe, looking at identifying different feelings; recognising which adults and friends we can trust and thinking about school / classroom rules that help us feel safe. In PE we will be practising skills that we will need for Sports’ Day and will also be covering a dance unit based on the theme weather. Reading and Phonics are a particular focus in Year 1. Daily reading is vital to your child’s continued development and access to the curriculum. Your continued support in this is essential.

Spring 2 2023

This half term our cross-curricular topic will be ‘Map it Out’ and ‘Animals Including Humans’. In English, we will be learning mapping skills with a focus on the book 'Follow that Map'. We will also be learning all about the ‘The Jolly Postman’ and will be focusing on letter writing. The book ‘Follow that Map' also links to our Geography topic where we will be learning about fieldwork mapping. In Maths, we will be exploring measurement: length and height, mass and weight, capacity and volume. We will also continue our work on addition and subtraction. ‘Animals including humans’ is our Science focus. We will be identifying, naming drawing and labelling the basic parts of the human body and will learn all about the senses. In P.S.H.E., as part of this topic, we will be learning about the main external parts of the bodies of humans, including names for sexual parts. We will be learning about how to keep ourselves clean. In P.E., during the half term, we will be learning skills used in cricket and gymnastics and, in Art, we will be exploring clay and making pinch and coil pots.

Spring 1 2023

This half term our cross-curricular topic will be ‘Great Fires’. In English, we will be focusing on The Great Fire of London, writing poetry and recounts of the event. This links to our History topic where we will be comparing the Great Fire of London and the Fire of Chatteris. In Maths, we will be exploring number and place value beyond 20, addition and subtraction and will be learning about 3D shapes. ‘Animals including humans’ is our Science focus. We will be identifying, naming, describing, and comparing a variety of common animals. We will also learn about the basic parts of the human body and will learn which body parts are associated with the senses. In PE, during the half term, we will be looking at gymnastics and dance. PSHE will enable us to explore healthy and safer lifestyles and how to manage safety and risks. Reading and Phonics are a particular focus in Year 1. Daily reading is vital to your child’s continued development and access to the curriculum. We thank you for your continued support

Autumn 2 2022

This half term our topic will be ‘Great Britian'. In English, we will be focusing on Katie Morag’s Island stories by Mairi Hedderwick and writing persuasive and explanation texts. ‘Seasonal Changes’ is our Science focus; we will be observing changes across the four seasons and observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies. In Maths, we will be learning place value, addition and subtraction within 20; measures (time) and geometry (properties of shape). In PE, during the half term, we will be looking at throwing and catching and Playground Games. PSHE will enable us to explore ourselves and our relationships and emotions. Reading and Phonics are a particular focus in Year 1. Daily reading is vital to your child’s continued development and access to the curriculum. Your continued support in this is essential.

Autumn 1 2022

This half term our topic will be ‘Toys over Time’. Using the book ‘Lost in the Toy Museum’ by David Lucas, we will write adventure stories and a chronological report. In Maths, we will be learning place value, addition and subtraction within 10, ensuring all children have secure knowledge of counting objects and using these to support our calculations.

In Science, we will investigate Everyday Materials. We will identify and name a variety of everyday materials including: wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, rock, brick, paper, elastic, fabric and foil. We will describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials and compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties. In PE we will be looking at fundamentals in games, multi-skills and gymnastics. PSHE will enable us to explore our emotions and find appropriate strategies to manage them.

Reading and Phonics are a particular focus in Year 1. Daily reading is vital to your child’s continued development and access to the curriculum. Your continued support in this is essential.

Summer 2 2022

Our cross-curricular topics in Year 1 this half-term are Our World and Plants. When learning about Our World, the children shall be learning the names and locations of the seven continents and five oceans of the world. They will be finding out whether all places are the same and will explore and compare two contrasting locations. Children will be learning about fruit including where in the world it comes from. They will then design and prepare their own fruit salad. For our continuing Plants topic, we shall be looking more closely at plants and their parts, including which parts we can eat, and in line with Our World topic, shall study plants typically found on different continents. In English, we are reading Paddington Bear stories and will be focusing on story writing. Grammar will concentrate on prefixes and suffixes and we shall continue to practise our ability to remember capital letters and full stops in the appropriate places. For Maths, we shall be finding out about fractions including halves and quarters, position and direction, money and time. In Computing, the children will be learning to program animations and will put together their own set of commands to program a sprite. Personal Safety is our focus in P.S.H.E. when we shall be thinking about what we can do to keep ourselves safe. We shall continue to learn about Hinduism in R.E. and are revisiting all that we have already learned in Music. P.E. lessons will focus attacking and defending skills and dance. Phonics screenings for this year have been completed and it has been clear to see the difference between the reading ability of children who regularly practise reading at home and those that do not. Thank you on behalf of your child for continuing to read regularly with them. It helps them so much in all they do. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all the support you have given your child and, by extension, us. We could not have done it without you.

Summer 1 2022

This half term our cross-curricular topic will be ‘Kings and Queens’. In English, will be focusing on fairy tales and story writing. We will also be learning about the monarchy in History and drawing portraits of the Queen in Art. This will culminate in a Year 1 celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. In Science, we will be studying plants: identifying and naming a variety of common wild and garden plants and describing their structure.

In Maths, we will be exploring multiplication and division and fractions. In PSHE, we will be thinking about how we can keep ourselves safe. We will be looking at identifying different feelings; recognising which adults and friends we can trust and thinking about school and classroom rules that help us feel safe. In PE we will be practising skills that we will need for Sports’ Day. Reading and Phonics are a particular focus in Year 1. Daily reading is vital to your child’s continued development and access to the curriculum. Your continued support in this is essential.

Spring 2 2022

1B's class assembly all about the Great Fire of London can be found here:

This half term our cross-curricular topic will be ‘Map it Out’. In English, we are learning all about ‘The Jolly Postman’ and will be focusing on letter writing. We will also be learning about mapping, starting off by looking at the Jolly Postman’s route and continuing to learn mapping skills with a focus on the book ‘Follow that Map’.  This links to our Geography topic where we will be learning geographical skills and fieldwork to do with mapping.  In Maths, we will be exploring place value within 50 and measurement (length, height, weight and volume). ‘Animals including humans’  is our Science focus. We will be identifying, naming, drawing and labelling the basic parts of the human body and will learn all about the senses. In PSHE we will be learning about the main external parts of the bodies of humans, including names for sexual parts and know how to keep ourselves clean.

In P.E. lessons this half term, we will be looking at gymnastics and bat and ball skills. In Art we will be exploring clay and making pots.

Reading and Phonics are a particular focus in Year 1. Daily reading is vital to your child’s continued development and access to the curriculum. Your continued support in this is essential.

 

Spring 1 2022

This half-term our cross-curricular topic will be ‘Great Fires’. In English, we will be focusing on The Great Fire of London as well as poetry and writing our own recounts. This links to our History topic where we will be comparing the Great Fire of London with the Fire of Chatteris. In Maths, we will be exploring addition and subtraction within 20 and place value within 50. ‘Animals including humans’ is our Science focus. We will be identifying, naming, describing, and comparing a variety of common animals. We will also learn about the basic parts of the human body and will learn which body parts are associated with the senses. 

In P.E., during the half term, we will be looking at gymnastics and dance. PSHE will enable us to explore healthy and safer lifestyles and how to manage safety and risks. Reading and Phonics are a particular focus in Year 1. Daily reading is vital to your child’s continued development and access to the curriculum. Your continued support in this is essential.

Autumn 2 2021

Here is the children's Nativity:

This half term our topic will be ‘Great Britain’. In English, we will be focusing on Katie Morag’s ‘Island’ stories by Mairi Hedderwick, writing persuasive and explanation texts relating to the books. In Maths, we will be learning more about place value, addition and subtraction within 10 and Geometry (shape). ‘Seasonal Changes’ is our Science focus. We will be observing changes across the four seasons and observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies. Reading and Phonics are a particular focus in Year 1.

Daily reading is vital to your child’s continued development and access to the curriculum. Your continued support in this is essential. Please try to hear your child read daily.

In PE, during the half term, we will be looking at multi-skills, throwing and catching. PSHE will enable us to explore ourselves, our relationships and emotions.

Autumn 1 2021

This half term our topic will be ‘Toys over Time’. Using the  book ‘Lost in the Toy Museum’  by David Lucas, we will write adventure stories and a chronological report. In Maths, we will be learning place value and addition and subtraction within 10. In Science, we will investigate Everyday Materials. We will identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including: wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, rock, brick, paper, elastic, fabric and foil. We will describe the simple physical properties of  a variety of everyday materials and compare and group together materials on the basis of their simple physical properties.

Reading and Phonics are a particular focus in Year 1. Daily reading is vital to your child’s continued development and access to the curriculum. Your continued support in this is essential.

In PE, during the first half term,  we will be looking at Playground Games and Gymnastics. PSHE will enable us to explore our emotions and find appropriate strategies to manage them.

 

Phonics

We have created a guide for parents so that you can support your children at home in preparation for the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check. You can download and read the document here Phonics_Booklet_for_Parents.pdf

 

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