Welcome to Year 1
Our Class Teacher is Mrs Allott
History
Spring I - Toys
In our driver subject History this half term, the children will learn about changes within living memory. The topic is toys of the past. Through the exploration of a range of artefacts and sources including a survey completed by their grandparents, the children will answer the following enquiry questions:
Our enquiry questions are:
What were our grandparent's toys like?
2. How do we know what toys were like in the past?
3. How have toys changed over the years? Why?
4. Are these toys old or new?
5. How can we tell these toys are old?
Class novel and Pathways to Write text
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English
In English, the Year 1 children will enhance their writing and grammar skills through the story of "The Lion Inside" by Rachel Bright. Through activities linked to the text such as writing labels, speech bubbles and a recount, the children will build on their skills from Autumn 2 to achieve this half term's mastery keys. As we reveal more pages from the book each week and therefore insight in to the events, the children will end the half term with producing a journey inspired narrative.
This half term’s mastery keys are:
- - to punctuate sentences using a capital letter, full stop, some question and exclamation marks
- join words and clauses using ‘and’
- some accurate use of the prefix ‘un’
- - add suffixes where no change is needed to the root word –ed, -ing, -er, -est
Children's rights and SDGs
This Autumn, Year 1 children will be learning about children's rights, focusing on number 13. Right 13 emphasizes a child's right to sharing their opinion and have it listened to which links well to one of our objectives in PSHE Jigsaw as they know their views are valued and can contribute to the Learning Charter. Additionally, children will explore Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 15), which focuses on life on land.
PSHE Jigsaw
Our next PSHE Jigsaw unit is "Dreams and Goals’. As part of this, the children will set a goal and work out how to achieve it, talk about obstacles which make it more difficult to achieve my new challenge and have ideas to overcome them.
Please see our curriculum map below to find out what other exciting concepts we will be exploring this half term.
Remember to check Seesaw regularly to see our wonderful work and stay up to date with announcements.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact me.
Mrs Allott