Rabbits
Welcome to Year 1!
Please find below the information shared at our Year 1 Parent Information Session on Monday 16th September. If you were unable to attend and have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Evans (Year 1 Team Leader) who will be more than happy to help you.
Rabbits PE Days
Wednesday and Friday
On these days, please make sure that children wear the following:
- Black tracksuit bottoms or leggings (shorts in warmer weather)
- A plain white t-shirt or their usual school polo shirt
- Their usual school jumper or cardigan
- Trainers suitable for outside
Please ensure that long hair is tied back and earrings are removed.
Little Wandle Support for Parents
Please see below for a link to the Little Wandle website which will help you support your child with saying their sounds and writing their letters. There are also some useful videos so you can see how they are taught at school and feel confident about supporting their reading at home.
https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
Autumn 1
This half term in Religious Education we have been learning about Christianity. We have been learning about what Christians believe about God and have learnt about the Creation Story. We discussed God as a 'Creator' and made our own creations using natural materials.
Autumn 2
Wrapped Up!
In Art, we have been exploring the work of the artist, William Morris. The children have been exploring his nature-inspired artwork and have learned that he was famous for 'printing'. The children have been using everyday objects to print their own repeated patterns. They have also begun sketching simple Christmas designs to make their own stamps. Once their stamps are made, they will be using them to print their own Christmas wrapping paper that they will then sell at our Christmas Fair.
Science
In Science, we have been learning all about 'Seasons' and learning which months of the year fall into which 'season'. We have been discussing the clothes that people wear during Autumn and Winter, and they had a go, in groups, at making our own Autumn and Winter clothing. The children were very creative with the materials and made some super outfits!
Spring 1- Toys
'Toys' is our topic for this half term.
We began our topic by drawing our favourite toys and creating a class pictogram. Last week, we welcomed into school 'Tommy Top Hat' who transported us back to Victorian times and told us all about toys from the past. We learnt a lot of interesting facts throughout the day, one fact being that plastic was not around during Victorian times and so many of the toys were made from wood or metal. We also learnt that the toys were 'pull' toys or 'push' toys or a combination of the two, rather than using batteries like most toys today. All children were given the opportunity to play with the toys and explore the materials that they were made from and the mechanisms that enabled them to work. They had lots of fun!
Science
This half-term we have been learning all about 'Materials'. We have been looking at objects around school and have explored the materials they are made from. We have also sorted objects by their materials and recorded this into Venn diagrams.
Maths
In maths, we have been exploring 'Place Value'. We have been looking at numbers beyond 10 and exploring how many tens and ones a number is made up of. We have been using lots of different apparatus to help us learn, and we have also been recording these numbers in numerals and words.
English
'Dogger' by Shirley Hughes has been our text for the last couple of weeks. Children have been using role play to act out the story and have been using adjectives in their writing to describe Dogger.
Spring 2
English
This half term we have been exploring the text ‘Tell me a Dragon’. It is a beautiful book with lots of lovely dragon descriptions. We introduced the book with our very own dragon egg find! The children were captivated by the discovery of dragon eggs and footprints in our classroom. As part of this text, children have created their own dragons and have written some lovely descriptions, including writing their own ‘finding tale’.
Maths
In maths, we have been exploring Place Value of numbers to 50. Children have been working with dienes apparatus to practically make numbers to 50 and partition these numbers into tens and ones using a part-whole model.
Science
This half term we have been doing lots of outdoor learning as we have been learning all about ‘Plants’. So far, we have looked at the first signs of Spring and have been on nature walks around Hartshill looking at common garden and wild flowers.
Summer 1
During this half term we have been exploring the topic ‘Knights, Castles and Dragons’. We have learnt all about the different types of castles and why castles were built on high ground. We have looked at the different parts of a castle and the different jobs people did. As part of this topic we visited ‘Tamworth Castle’. The children thoroughly enjoyed it, they participated in workshops which enabled them to try on armour, meet the lady of the Castle and explore the castle itself.
English
We have been learning about ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. We used our creative minds to create a group setting of a ‘castle above the clouds’ using shoe boxes, cotton wool and drawing our own characters and props. The children loved it! We also wrote our very own setting descriptions.
Maths
In maths we have been looking multiplication and division. Children have been practising to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. They have been exploring ways to make equal groups and have recently been using arrays.
Science
We have been continuing to look at ‘Plants’ this half term before moving onto our next topic. We have learnt that some plants we can eat and have sorted lots of different fruits and vegetables into the parts of the plant that it comes from: the flower, seeds, leaves, stems and roots. We even planted our very own bean plants that are going to be planted in the outside area and our own cress for us to try.