WELCOME TO YEAR 1
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Welcome to Summer Term!
We are excited to welcome you back to school after the May half-term!
We will be updating our Year 1 page every half-term with updates, important information and a curriculum overview for the half term.
Class Teachers:
Miss S Goldsmith
s.goldsmith@emsworth.hants.sch.uk
Miss T Swainson
t.swainson@emsworth.hants.sch.uk
Learning Support Staff:
Miss D Haines
Mrs T Morrison
Miss Treagust
Key Information
P.E Days |
Mondays (indoors) & Fridays (outdoors). Children to come to school in full P.E kit on these days. White t-shirt, black leggings/skirt/shorts/jogging bottoms, white socks and plimsoles or trainers. Long hair needs to be tied back and earrings must be removed or covered with tape for PE. |
Library Day | Wednesday Mornings |
Spot Books | Changed daily or when required |
Bug Club Books | Changed every Friday. They are to be read everyday. |
Important Dates |
4th July - Trip to Marwell Zoo 8th July - Sports Day 20th July - Last day of term
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If you have any questions please talk to us in the morning or after school or arrange a meeting through the office. We are always happy to respond emails, please find these details above. |
Summer 2: One Day in the Savannah
Curriculum Overview
English:
This half term our book led topics will be One Day on our Blue Planet... in the Savannah by Ella Bailey and Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett.
From breakfast to dinner, dusk to dawn, children will love spending the day with this curious lion cub! Minding his mother and playing with his father, this little lion can't help chasing trouble and fun as he explores this small corner of our big blue planet.
We revisit and build upon the speech and language, drama, reading, comprehension and writing skills previously learnt in Early Years. The main writing outcomes include a setting description, an animal factfile and a postcard.
For more information on the Year 1 English national curriculum please visit:
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Maths:
This half term we will be revisiting and consolidating Number and place value. We will interpret and solve addition and subtraction and multiplication and division equations, using concrete and mental methods. We will be exploring the measurement time and introducing the idea of sequencing time via the days of the week.
-Number and Place Value (1 week) - Measurement: Time (2 weeks) - Multiplication and Division (2 weeks) |
Science
Animals We will be identifying and naming a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. We will also be identifying and naming a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
Longitudinal Environment Study
Observing and predicting changes in our school environment and identifying animals and flowering plants in different seasons. |
Foundation Subjects
Computing We will be creating StopMotion videos using the Ipads.
PSHE Get Heartsmart! We will be learning about No way Through isn't True! - Knowing there is a way through every situation now matter how impossible it seems.
Art On the theme of the natural world, children will make sculptures, collages, 3D models of creatures and a class spider sculpture, inspired by Louise Bourgeois.
Religious Education We will be exploring Special Books. We will be exploring books that have meaning to us a class and to others, and specifically recognising that the Quran is a special book for Muslims. We will identify and talk about the concept of specialness in relation to special books, and explore the importance of special books in performing worship.
History We will be learning about the Queen and her magnificent 70 year reign. We will be using our enquiry hats to explore the royal family.
P.E During our PE sessions, we will be practising athletic sports ready for sports day. |
Reading:
Your child will be read with once a week by a member of staff and they will also join in with small weekly guided reading groups with their teachers whereby they will explore texts which link to our book led topic. . Children will be able to change their spot books daily or when needed. Members of staff will move them onto new spot book bands as they make progress throughout the year. The book bands will link to their phonetic knowledge, the sight reading of tricky words and their ability to understand and answer questions about what they have read. If you would like to discuss ways in which you can support your child's reading further, please speak to your child's class teacher. We will visit the library weekly on a Wednesday Mornings, where children will be able to return and pick a new library book.
Reading with your child at home is a fantastic way to support their learning and progress. We suggest that a 'little and often' approach is best, i.e five minutes, five times a week. As well as decoding the words, ask them questions to check their understanding. In addition to listening to your child read, please read to your child as this will support them to behave like a reader, copying what they see and hear. We recommend that you share favourite stories, allowing them to join in with predictable phrases. Also, visiting your local library is a great way to discover new and exciting books.
Reading Challenge
Each time children read at home and their grown-up records this in their reading record, they get to move their rabbit up the burrow or their squirrel up the tree. Once they have reached the top of the burrow or tree, they get a sticker for their bookmark. When their bookmark has 5 stickers they will receive a reading challenge certificate to take home.
If you are interested in volunteering to read with the children in school weekly, then please let your child's class teacher know. |
Phonics and Spellings:
Handwriting:
We will be following a handwriting scheme of work called 'Letterjoin'.
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Home Learning:
The home learning tasks for this half term will be attached below and can be completed any time before the summer holidays. These are by no means compulsory and we do not expect the children to complete every task, unless they would like to. We set these tasks to create and encourage dialogue between home and school. Children can bring in their homework or they can share it on SeeSaw.
We will send home paper copies of our weekly phonics sounds and spellings fortnightly for children to practise reading and writing at home.
Please see your class teacher if you any questions or queries regarding these tasks.
Topic homework:
Please view our online learning page in the event of school closure, bubble closure or individual self isolation from school time. |
Behaviour for Learning and Rewards
In year one, we encourage children to be kind, respectful and tolerant towards others. We use a wide variety of positive reinforcements and rewards in order to create a nurturing and engaging learning environment, where all children are motivated and ready to achieve their very best.
Our main behaviour for learning system is our space rocket. Children have their names on astronauts and all begin on the rocket. They then have their names moved to the star for doing something brilliant. At the end of the day, all the children who are on the star receive a star sticker. The teachers also picks two stars of the week, for children have consistently completed pieces of work brilliantly, who follows the class rules or for being resilient/kind to others. These children get a special acorn badge to wear for the week (squirrels) and five minutes extra 'golden time'.
If children do not follow the class's rules, which are agreed by the children at the beginning of the school year, then their name moves down to the Moon. If they begin to show much more positive behaviour then their name can move back up. However, if their negative behaviour continues then their name will move to the Earth which means they will receive a sanction. This may be a time out or a missed playtime, depending on the severity of the behaviour. Everyday is a new start and all the names return to the sun.
During our Friday assemblies, Ms Newton awards one child with a Head teacher certificate each week, for a very special rabbit or squirrel. Children also receive a reading certificate for completing the reading challenges (please find out about this above in the reading section of the website).
Children receive dojo points when a teacher or member of staff notices something brilliant which they have done. They can get points for lots of reasons, but it may be following one of our class rules, completing a learning task well or for being a kind friend to others. Once children reach 100 they can change their dojo monster and get to pick from a variety of fun characters. The two children with the top dojo points at the end of the half term receive a prize.
We also have a class teddy in each class that goes home with one child each Friday and returns to school on a Monday. The children are encouraged to write about, draw pictures of or take pictures of what they get up to with the teddy over the weekend. They will then share this with their class on the Monday.
We have a class chatter bag that also goes home weekly. Children take it in turns to bring in one item from home to share with their class during the weekly show and tell. This can be a special item or toy. We ask that children wait for their turn to use the chatter bag and we discourage children bringing in toys from home at any other time. |
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