Year 1 2024 - 2025

Year One Class Teacher

Mrs Lisa Knowles

TA- Mrs Katie Thomas

TA-Miss Dawn Davis

TA- Mrs Hayley Leyland

Christian Value for this half term is Peace

Hello and welcome to the Autumn Term 

We will start off the new school year by looking at ourselves.

We will be learning through play and writing sentences about ourselves.

Year One Author of The Term is Shirley Hughes. 

We will be enjoying listening to her stories, learning how to sequence a story, writing a story and lots of other things.

We will also be listening to stories from Giles Andreae 'Giraffes can't Dance' and 'Handa's Suprise' by  Eileen Browne. 

In History we will be learning about how our lives have changed in living memory.

We will be learning about Continents and Oceans, countries of the UK and Capital Cities in Geography. 

During the term, in maths, children will be working on addition and subtraction within 10, Place Value to 10, and 2D Shape and 3D Shape.

In Science we are learning about Animals Including Humans-All about Me.  and Materials and their Properties.

 In Art we will be learning about the Artists, Albrecht Durerand Piet Mondrian.

In DT we will be looking at Food and Nutrition- making our own Rainbow Wraps learning how to chop, peel, ribbon and grate our fruit and vegetables.  

In RE we are learning about Harvest. We will also be learning about The Christmas Gifts.

Homework

Children are expected to read for 10 minutes each night and practise their spellings for the spelling test on the Friday in school. All children get homework on a Friday and it must be completed before the following Wednesday. The homework will either be Maths, English, Topic, Science or a research project. All homework must be completed in pencil.