Ruby Class 2024 - 2025

Miss Oldknow

Year 1 Teacher
PE and Design and Technology Lead

Ruby Class!

Welcome to our Year 1 class page! Here you can find all the relevant information about what your child will be learning this half term.

Summer Term

On our Year 1 class page you will find all the information about our class topics, class news, events, daily routines, homework and dates for your diaries. I will also regularly share the Year 1’s fantastic work on our Twitter and Facebook pages as well as on Seesaw, so please follow us to keep up to date with everything we are learning about in school.

Mrs Fernyhough will be teaching the children every Tuesday afternoon. She will be teaching the children Music, PSHE and RE.

PE sessions are a little bit different in Year 1 and we ask that children come into school IN their PE kits. Our PE day for this half term is a Thursday, so please remember to come in your PE kit on this day.

As always, if you need any more information please don't hesitate to ask!

Miss Oldknow.

Summer 1

As Writers ... Toys in space.jpg

Our text this half term is Toys in Space by Mini Grey.

We will be working towards writing a fantasy story about some toys who are taken onto a spaceship. We will be changing the characters in the story.

Mastery Keys:

• Join words and clauses using and
• Punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
• Add suffixes where no change is needed to the root word e.g. ed, -ing, -er, -est
• Change the meaning of verbs and adjectives by adding the prefix un

As Mathematicians...

This term in Maths the children be learning about:

Multiplication and Division

Fractions

Position and direction

The WhiteRose app on Apple and Android have some great games to practive maths skills that we are practicing in school.

As Historians...

toys from the past.jpeg

In History this term we will be answering the question 'How are the toys that I play with different to the toys that children played with in the past?'

We will be looking at:

What toys do we play with today?
What toys did our parents and grandparents play with?
What were toys like at different times during the past?
What is different between old and new toys?

As Designers...

DT lettering.jpeg

In DT this half term we will be designing and making a windmill.

Key Skills:

Follow design criteria to meet the needs of a user.
Make a stable structure.
Make functioning sails/blades that attach to the supporting structure.
Improve their windmill.

As Artists...

In Art this half term we will be developing our understanding of sculpture and build upon our making skills. Our theme will be birds, wildlife and habitats!

As Scientists ...

In science this term we will be learning about plants!

We will be able to :

Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.
Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

Phonics

Every day Year 1 will have a phonics lesson. At Little Leigh Primary School we follow the Essential Letters and Sounds scheme of work. Please see the 'Files to Download' section at the bottom of the page to download all resources to help support your child with Phonics at home.

Here are two useful links to help support parents with the pronunciation of sounds that we are learning:

https://vimeo.com/753931102/b9a2f8194f - Phase 3 Pronunciation Video

https://vimeo.com/753933192/43104a30e0 - Phase 5 Pronunciation Video

Seasons

Throughout our time in Year 1, we will be taking part in local walks around our village and down to the canal. This will take part four times throughout the year. We will be looking for signs of the different seasons and analysing what changes we can see as the season changes. This will link to our Science and Geography learning, allowing us to take part in field work, map skills, looking at human and physical features and plants.

Online resources:

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/forestPhonics/index.html

Here you will find a fun phonics game where the children have to select the letters to make the words using their phonics sounds.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources

Here you will find different games where the children have to read and sort the real and nonsense words.

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/

Here you will find information and resources about the different phonics phases.

https://lettersandsounds.org.uk/for-home/y2-phonics-screening-check-revision

Here you will find different video’s for home learning, revising all the phonics sounds.

5. http://www.mrthorne.com/

Here you will find phonics videos that are very useful for pronunciation of sounds.

6. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Here you will find a great selection of games to support all areas of learning.

PE

This half term our PE sessions will take place on a Thursday. Please can your child arrive to school in their P.E kit on these days. Forest school will be on a Wednesday.

During the winter months, it is advisable for the children to bring warm clothes such as tracksuit bottoms as sessions will continue outside where possible.

Reading

Within school, all the children take part in whole class reading sessions, guided reading sessions and individual reads. These sessions aim to develop word recognition, inference skills, comprehension of texts and fluency/understanding of the texts we read. Our inviting reading area with quality texts will allow the children to independently develop their love of reading during quiet reading times.

In KS1 we encourage parents/guardians to read with your child at least 3 times a week and record a short comment in their child’s reading diary about that reading session. They will have the opportunity to change their reading book every week.