Year 1

Learning Link: Toy Story

This term our learning centres on ‘Toy Story’ where we will explore old and new toys. We will learn who Margaret Steiff was and the children will design and make their own toy structure (a castle or doll’s house). Our class texts and sentence work will be based on two books about toys. We will also explore materials in science and name and locate the continents and oceans of the world in geography.

At the end of the term the children will take part in a S=P+A+C+E challenge to practise the skills they have learnt during their first term in Year 1.

St. Rose:

Mrs Sharpe (Mon-Tues)

Mrs Royce (Weds-Fri)

St. Theodore:

Mrs Terracotta

Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available

The Curriculum Evening Presentation can be accessed here

Year Group Reminders

Week Commencing: Monday 19th October 2026

Week B

Monday: Remote parent consultations for those who booked. Little Wandle reading books due back in school. Spelling homework (red books) due back in school and dictation in class. Story sacks will not come home today due to the shorter week.

Tuesday: PE for both classes. Red spelling books come home with new spellings to practise (guidance is stuck into the front of the books).

Wednesday: Face-to-face parent consultations for those who booked. PE for 1T.

Thursday: No Little Wandle reading books will come home over half term. Please log on to the Collins Hub and read the e-books assigned to your child. There will be a ‘Home Learning’ sheet and new flashcards sent home today for you to practise with your child at home. Please return Barnaby Bear (1R)/ Dudley Dog (1T) and the Class Sketchbook so another child can take them home today. No SPACE for Me today.

Friday: No school – half term.

Looking further ahead:

School starts again on Tuesday 3^rd November.

Reminders:

Please can children bring in a healthy snack each day.

Every child needs a waterproof coat (with a hood) in school each day, as we try to get outside in most weather.

Please name all items of clothing so they can find their way back to you!

Homework

Reading:

No story sacks or Little Wandle books will come home this week due to the shorter week before half term. Please use the e-books available on The Collins Hub.

Phonics:

The ‘Home Learning’ sheets, that come home at the end of each week, show you the sounds and words the children have been learning throughout the week. When the children learn new sounds, we will send home flashcards for you to keep so you can practise with your child.

Spelling:

Spelling homework comes home on Tuesdays and is due back the following Monday. Guidance is stuck into the front of the children’s red spelling books. Please practise the spellings using the grid provided and write at least one sentence using one or more of the words.

Reading for Pleasure

Book of the Week:

‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers

RE

To show our understanding of Gensis one through artwork.  Portraying the creation story through art.

English

Sentence Construction

The children will plan and write their own beginning of a story based on the plot of our class text, 'That rabbit belongs to Emily Brown' by Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton. We will continue to focus on starting each sentence with a green capital letter, ending each sentence with a red full stop and leaving clear spaces between words. Children are encouraged to read their writing back to check it makes sense.

Handwriting

We will be forming some capital letters on their own and in words: A, B, C and D.

Phonics

The children will learn some new Phase 5 sounds. A ‘Home Learning’ sheet will come home on Thursday with the overview of sounds and words that we have practised throughout the week along with the flashcards.

Spelling homework is based on these sounds.

Maths

Part-Whole within 10

This is one of the most important units of work.  Children who have a solid grasp of numbers to 10 are able to apply this knowledge to so many other areas, including numbers to 20, numbers to 50 and beyond.  Also crucial for addition and subtraction.  Children who are confident in this unit will learn how to partition numbers within 10 using a part whole model. 

Science

Materials

We will be looking at how lots of materials can be recycled and why this should be done as much as we can.  We will be having a go at sorting our materials into the correct recycling bins.

Art

Mark Making

This week, we will be putting our mark-making skills into practice through an observational drawing activity.  The children will explore the different types of marks we have experimented with throughout this unit and think carefully about which marks would work best to represent the object they are drawing. They will have the opportunity to make thoughtful choices about line, texture and pattern to bring their observational drawings to life.

Computing

Technology around us

The children will learn how to open their work from last week and continue to use the computer keyboard to type words. They will use the space bar, the backspace to delete letters and arrows to move the cursor.

History

Toys in the past.

We will learning all about the history of the Teddy bear.

French

To recognise the names of 5 fruits in French.

Music

We are learning to sing in unison in songs with two pitches and beginning to identify high and low sounds.

PE

Fundamentals

Develop key movement skills which include balance, jump, hop, run, speed, agility, dodge, skip and coordination.

Balls skills

Track a moving ball and move their body to intercept or catch. Beginning to dribble a ball with my hands and feet. Throw overarm. Work cooperatively with a partner. Recognise changes in my body when I do exercise.

Sending and receiving

Throw and catch over varying distances. Develop rolling and tracking skills. Applying sending and receiving skills with your feet.

Learning for Life

It’s not Fair!  Learning about kind and unkind words, and how to manage feeling when we feel a sense of injustice.