Hello and welcome to Year 1!

My name is Miss Hale, and I am the class teacher in Year 1, alongside Miss McAviney. We are all very excited to learn and explore with the children this year. We use a child-led, exploratory approach alongside our knowledge-based curriculum that echoes the pedagogy practiced across key stages 1 and 2. 

We have such a fabulous year ahead and I hope that all of the children are looking forward to all of the amazing things that we are going to be learning! 

You will find on this class page examples of children's work, guidance and documents to support your understanding of what and how your child is learning in Year one, exciting class news and activities that we get up to!

As always, please do not hesitate to make an appointment with myself if you have any queries about our learning and we will always do our best to help! 

Below are some useful links to support your child's learning, which you can logon to at any time and find some really useful activities and games. 

Miss Hale

Key Things for you to know

• PE will be on THURSDAY afternoons, with myself or Miss McAviney leading the session. Please ensure your child has their kit in school at all times and arrives in PE kit.
• Home Reader books will be changed on TUESDAY so please bring your book bags in on this day so a new book can be issued.
• Oxford owl phonics books (electronic) and maths.co.uk homework will be set on FRIDAYS with a week to complete.

THE WRITE STUFF

In Year One, we carry on a programme that runs throughout our school, called the Write Stuff. In our lessons, we immerse ourselves in the plot points of new stories where we have experience days and writing days. We then carry out our own independent writes at the end of each book. We love learning about new characters, new modes of text and various types of writing too. Below is some of the amazing work the children have been completing in our lessons, followed by their independent plan and OWN writing!!! 

ART

Wow! What a fantastic start to the new year and term! We have introduced the term by starting with our Art lessons. In Art this term we are looking at Henri Mattise, who is a French abstract artist. The children have enjoyed learning about Henri's background, how he found his passion as an artist, and of course learning about his pieces and techniques. The children have looked at new vocabulary such as: tearing, overlapping, collaging, and scrunching. We have also been focusing on the primary and secondary colours within our pieces. We have loved using Henri's techniques to create our own wonderful masterpieces!

MATHS

What an incredible start to our Autumn morning math's lessons we have had so far! In our morning lessons we have been focusing on increasing/decreasing on a number line, addition and subtraction within 20, comparing numbers using less or more than symbols and have been ordering missing numbers! In our afternoon, we have short bursts of mastering number lessons which focuses on maths fluency to help our pace and really understand what makes up our numbers. Here is a look at the amazing book work so far!

Key words: Addend, Sum, Subitise, increase, decrease, communtative law.

SCIENCE

In our first term of science our focus has been on the Four Seasons. We have looked at the changes and similarities of each seasons, the months that they fall under, the appropriate clothes to wear, types of weather in every season and have done a case study all about Autumn. The children have worked so hard and have retained lots of interesting facts about our seasons and have had lots of fun discovering the art of Autumn outdoors. Take a look at our amazing bookwork below.

GEOGRAPHY

In Geography this term we have been looking at our local area. We have invested our time walking around the local area, learning about the different types of houses and homes, local jobs and what people do, we have looked at map and map symbols and physical/human features. The children have worked super hard within this topic and their book work and recall quizzes prove it!

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

In Autumn One, our focus religion has been Christianity. We have studied two parables from the Bible: The Lost Son and Jonah and the Giant Fish. We have looked at christian morals and different Christian prayer types. We have throughly enjoyed learning about this religion and have shown the utmost respect when looking at differential views and opinions.

Websites to support learning