Welcome to Year 1
Welcome to Year 1

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Class Curriculum

Autumn 1 2024

 

Welcome to Year 1!

Arrival time is from 8.45 – 8.55am as usual.  Mrs Clark or Hannah will be outside to welcome the children and get them settled in for the day and Mrs Harris will be in the classroom helping them with their morning activity. Please encourage your child to come into the building by themself as they are familiar with this from reception and one of us will be on hand to help if needed. Our day finishes at 3:15. We will bring the children out to the front pedestrian gate and see that they are collected safely. Please wait for us on the pavement where we can see you. If you need to let us know about any changes to collection arrangements please let a member of staff know in the morning or email using the email address provided below. Please note on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays Hannah will be teaching and Mrs Clark will be teaching Thursdays and Fridays. Please email both of us with any messages or questions. Mrs Harris will be here everyday.

Reading
Reading continues to be an important part of the day. Your child will learn to read their ‘learning to read’ book with an adult on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday following the Little Wandle Scheme. The book will then be sent home with them on Wednesday afternoon to share at home and increase fluency. On Thursday afternoons we will visit the library where your child has chance to choose  a ‘reading for pleasure’ book. Please ensure that your child reads or shares a book at home every day and that this is recorded in their reading record.

Your child’s reading book and reading record need to be sent into school each day to enable us to read at school and monitor your child’s reading progress.

In order to promote a love of reading for pleasure we would encourage you to do a mixture of; reading the ‘learning to read’ book, sharing a story from our library or one of their favourites from home.

In class we share stories daily and keep a list of the books that we have read to look back over and enjoy some of our favourites time and time again. Stories from our Year 1 reading spine include…

         

Writing
As writers, we will be writing a story with a baddy set to the theme of ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We will be using our model text ‘The Three Little Pigs’ when learning some of the key features of a baddy story. This half term we will continue with the continuous provision approach that the children have been familiar with from reception providing a mixture of child initiated and teacher directed tasks each morning. In Year  1 we follow the National Curriculum. Children have English lessons every morning which they will record in their books.

Maths
In Maths, we will be learning about place value. We will be sorting, counting and comparing numbers and focus on ordering these using greater than, less than, equal too and one more and one less. We will use a range of resources to support our learning and will start recording some of our learning in our maths journals.  As we progress through the term we will be bringing these ideas together following the White Rose Maths scheme of learning. We will begin to work towards more whole class teaching and learning in maths this term.

Project Learning

We will be starting the term with our new Science project, Animals Including Humans and our Geography project, Seasonal Changes.

Physical Education
Our PE lessons will be on Thursday afternoons. We will be starting with the fundementals of PE which will be outside when possible. Please ensure your child wears a full PE kit into school that is weather appropriate – school jumper and dark trousers. If the weather is wet we will be inside.

Keeping in Touch

If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to email us at:

h.whiter@southill.dorset.sch.uk

j.clark@southill.dorset.sch.uk

Please copy us both into all emails. We will respond within 48 hours on our working days.