Year 1 2023 - 2024
Mr Marland
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.
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, so please follow us to keep up to date with everything we are learning about in school.
PE sessions are a little bit different in Year 1 and we ask that children come into school IN their PE kits. Our PE days are on a Monday and Wednesday, so please remember to come in your PE kit during those days. As some PE lessons may be outside, please can the children wear warm PE clothes during the winter months.
As always, if you need any more information please don't hesitate to ask!
Mr Marland & Mrs Thompson
Summer Term 1
As Writers ...
Our text this half term is the return narrative 'The Secret of Black Rock' by Joe Todd-Stanton. This text will help the children learn to:
- Create noun phrases based on what they see in the illustrations from the text
- Add the prefix 'un' to a word to create the oppopsite meaning to the original word
- Continue to practise punctuating sentences
- Start sentences in a way that keeps the reader interested
- Apply their phonics knowledge when spelling a words
- Think of sentences that include new vocabulary taught
- Review work and make changes in order to improve sentences
As Mathematicians...
This half-term the children be learning about:
compare, describe and solve practical problems for mass/weigh e.g heavy/light, heavier than, lighter than
compare, describe and solve practical problems for capacity and volume e.g full/empty, more than, less than, half, half full, quarter
measure and begin to record mass/weight & capacity and volume
recognise, find and name a half as 1 of 2 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity
recognise, find and name a quarter as 1 of 4 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity
As artists...
We will be exploring how artists make collages inspired by Flora and Fauna The children will make collages of mini -beasts and display as a shared artwork.
As scientists ...
In science we will be focusing on plants. We will identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees. We will also 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. For the first week of this half term, the children will recap on all phase 2-5 GPCs and practise reading real and pseudo words that include these. The children will then continue to further develop their reading by learning phase 6 GPCs, which include alternative graphemes. Below are a selection of websites which will help support the children with their phonics at home.
Online resources:
Here you will find a fun phonics game where the children have to select the letters to make the words using their phonics sounds.
Here you will find different games where the children have to read and sort the real and nonsense words.
Here you will find information and resources about the different phonics phases.
Here you will find different video’s for home learning, revising all the phonics sounds.
Here you will find phonics videos that are very useful for pronunciation of sounds.
Here you will find a great selection of games to support all areas of learning.
