Welcome to Autumn Term in Year 1
Welcome to Year One.
We are excited for a fun-filled year of learning and exploration in year 1. We will strive to make your child’s experience in education special, continuing to develop their relationship with their teacher and learning support assistants, who will support them and ensure that their emotional and academic needs are met daily. Our aim is for your children to become confident learners and to carry their love of learning throughout their lives.
Autumn Bookshelf
During Autumn term in Year 1, we will read a variety of inspirational texts where we will explore the character traits of kindness, citizenship, integrity, curiosity, bravery, and gratitude.
In our first text, we will explore the tale of The Gingerbread Man. We will share our ideas on how the characters in the story did or did not, show kindness and integrity. We will explore streets over time in history, looking at their similarities and differences.
Next, we will immerse ourselves in the story of Handa’s Surprise. The story teaches us about friendship, revelations, and different cultures with a few surprises along the way.
In geography, we will explore our local area through developing our sense of place and developing our map reading skills.
We will embark on an exciting adventure to the South Pole in the book Lost and Found, where we will utilise our curiosity to help the penguin return to his home. This will be followed on by the story Stick Man. We will analyse the text and explore the characters practising using capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and much more.
In RE we will continue to develop our knowledge on the teachings and beliefs of a range of different religions and look at how this is represented in society across Great Britain. We will talk about what it means to belong to a faith community.
To top it all off we will celebrate Black History Month and Rosh Hashanah, as well as giving a Christmas performance!
It is going to be a busy and thoroughly enjoyable term!
Autumn Learning at a Glance
Maths
Number: Place value (within 10)
Number: Addition and subtraction (within 10)
Geometry: Shape
English
Writing
Create labels, captions and repeated phrasing.
Write simple sentences with finger spaces working towards capital letters and full stops.
Use vocabulary in different contexts.
Reading
Decoding and wider reading strategies, text type features and retrieving information from a text and making inferences from what is said and done
Phonics
We will be recapping GPCs introduced in Reception before being introduced to new alternative representations of known digraphs.
Science
The Human Body
Materials
Seasonal Change
History
Exploring changes to our local High Street since 1950.
Geography
Studying maps, exploring the local area and developing a sense of place.
Computing
Computing systems and networks – Technology around us
Creating media – Digital painting
PE
Gymnastics and fundamental movement skills
Meet the Year One Team
- Miss Hayes – Class Teacher
- Miss Carberry – Learning Support Assistant
Important Information
- Miss Hayes will be available every day before and after school to receive messages, celebrate successes and answer any questions.
- Reading books need to be returned to school every Thursday. New books are sent home on a Friday.
- Please make sure your child’s book bag, containing their reading books and reading record, is brought into school every day.
- Please continue to sign your child’s reading record book daily.
- PE lessons are held on a Friday. Children need to come to school on Friday wearing their PE kits.
- Home learning will include daily reading, maths and weekly spellings.
As always, there will be lots of learning and exciting activities going on in Year 1 this term. Please speak to our admin team for access to the Year 1 Instagram feed @wps.year1