Welcome to Year 1 

Class Teacher: Mrs Al-Hassani

Teaching Assistant: Ms Moorhouse

Summer First half term

In English our focus will on reading a mixture of fiction and non-fiction texts. We will be learning about the features of these texts and we will be extending our vocabulary. We will read some Traditional Tales and we will revise our Sounds ready for the Phonics Test. The use of correct punctuation is ongoing. The children will be using conjunctions and adjectives and they will learn about nouns and verbs and they will use exclamation marks.

In Maths we will be learning about division and sharing equally and fractions – halves and quarters. We will now be working on numbers to100. This will involve using base 10 and ones to make different numbers, number patterns and comparing numbers.

Science: Plants  Everyday plants/deciduous and evergreen plants  Garden plants  Animals Common animals  Carnivores/herbivores/omnivores

Computing: To introduce e-books and the 2Create a Story tool. • To add animation to a story. • To add sound to a story, including voice recording and music the children have composed. • To work on a more complex story, including adding backgrounds and copying and pasting pages. • To share e-books on a class display board.

History will be about significant figures from history.

Geography will be  UK Geography – the different countries which make up the UK and their capitals, some of the major cities and places of interest.

Art  We will be experimenting with ways of selecting and joining materials to make a construction and we will be investigating ways to make something structurally stronger.

P.E  will be outdoor games and yoga

Music will be exploring rhythm.

R.E will be What makes some places sacred?  (Christianity and Islam)     

PHSE Personal safety and personal hygiene and what makes us healthy people, changes as we grow older.

French will be Simple responses to questions and joining in with French songs