This week's Learning in Year 1 at a glance!
Year 1
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Learning Link: A Trip Down Memory laneWe will be looking at our local area and what makes it unique. We will be asking the questions, what makes our community function and successful. We will look at the passage of time and how our community has changed over the last 59 years. If you have any memories of this time (the further back the better) or photographs we would love to hear from you. |
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St. Rose: Mrs Bond - mrsbond@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk Mrs Royce – mrsroyce@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk St. Theodore: Mrs Terracotta – mrsterracotta@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk |
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Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available |
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Year Group Reminders |
Week Commencing: Monday 9th March Week A Monday: Spelling homework due back in. Story sacks come home. Spelling books come home with new words. Science Fair project deadline. Tuesday: Trip to Alice Holt. Please provide your child with a small, healthy snack, packed lunch and water bottle. Children need to wear their school uniform with comfortable shoes (trainers or walking boots). Wednesday: PE for both classes. Thursday: We will not be sending home Little Wandle books this week due to the shorter week. There will be a new ‘Home Learning’ sheet so you can reinforce phonics learning at home. Friday: INSET Day - school closed.
Cold weather: Please can you send children into school with gloves and hats to wear during break, lunch and PE Lessons please. Base layers for sports are appropriate on PE days and ideally would be navy blue in colour. School tracksuit trousers are to be worn in the winter to replace PE shorts.
Looking further ahead:
Reminders: All children should be sent in with a raincoat (with a hood) as we go out in all weathers. Please make sure your child has a named water bottle and an individual snack (fruit or veg) everyday. Please make sure all items of clothing are named. |
Homework |
Reading: Story sacks will be sent home on Mondays - please return on Fridays. Little Wandle reading books will be sent home on Fridays - please return on Mondays. 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 we teach new graphemes we will send home the relevant 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 orange 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: The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. |
RE |
Desert to Garden The children will learn about what happened at the Last Supper |
English |
Sentence construction We will write about our trip to Alice Holt with a focus on using time words, adjectives and pronouns. Handwriting We will practise forming capital letters from the ‘bouncy letter’ family this week: Mm and Nn. |
Phonics |
In phonics lessons this week, we will be learning some new sounds
Spelling homework is based on these sounds and words. |
Maths |
Numbers to 50 In this unit, children will count beyond 20 to 50, counting objects as they go. They will learn that it is easier to count in 10s and 1s, rather than just in 1s. They will see common representations to help them count easily, such as ten frames, counters, cubes and egg boxes, etc. Children will notice the patterns in the number count beyond 20, for example, 20, 21, 22 … 30, 31, 32 … 40, 41, 42 … They will look at what digits are the same and what digits are different in these patterns of numbers. |
Science |
Our Senses We will be learning about our different senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. |
DT |
Making a healthy wrap We will be planning and making a healthy vegetable wrap this term. These will be served at the Grandparents’ Tea Party. |
Computing |
Data and Information No lesson due to the INSET day. |
Geography |
Comparing Tocuaro in Mexico to Guildford We will be looking at features of both places and deciding what is the same and what is different. |
French |
To recognise 4 words for food in French |
Music |
We are learning to sing in unison. We will listen to music and use our knowledge to describe what we hear in terms of tempo (fast/slow). |
PE |
Net and wall Use the ready position effectively. Hold and use a racket to hit a ball. Hitting over a net. Introduction of an opponent and score keeping. Dance Pupils will copy and repeat actions linking them together to make short dance phrases. Pupils will work individually and with a partner to create ideas in relation to the theme. Pupils will perform and also to provide feedback, beginning to use dance terminology to do so. Invasion games Move with a ball towards goals with increasing control. Understand their role as an attacker and as a defender. Move into space to help support a team. |
Learning for Life |
Physical Exercise We will be continuing to understand the importance of a healthy life and taking regular physical exercise. |
