Year 1 | Bridgetown Primary School

Summer Term 1

Knights and Maidens....

Just in time for St. George's Day, in year 1 we learned all about 'Knights and Maidens'. We started our topic by imitating and then innovating the 'defeating a monster' story, 'Saint George and the Dragon'. The children loved using talk 4 writing to learn the story and enjoyed coming up with gruesome words to describe their own monsters! In our art and dt lessons, we looked at the work of Paul Klee and enjoyed imitating his famous picture, 'Castle and Sun'. Pop into our practical area to take a look!

We learned about the significance of different animals and colours used on coats of arms and shields and used our school houses colours, Nelson, Raleigh, Chichester and Drake to print around them. Currently, we are building our own 3d castles, ensuring that we include all the key parts of a castle.

In our topic work, we are learning about what life was like in a castle, why castles were built and about significant people in history like William the Conqueror. We are also finding out about what life was like in the past and even learning some 'olde' language!

Here is a taster of our plans for this half term . Our topic is called Fantastic Forests!

Week

English

Maths

Science

Topic

Week 1

Hungry Caterpillar-

Imitation stage

Learning to spell the days of the week

Division

Grouping Equally.

Sharing Equally.

Plant detectives To identify and name a variety of garden plants and make observations

Charanga Music Scheme

P.E Gymnastics Travelling and jumping

Art Clay Minibeasts

ICT Word processing using Textease/ e -safety

PHSE Caring for others / Mothers’ day

RE Easter

Geography Looking for Signs of Spring Watching the weather -using a weather chart

ALL ONGOING

Week 2

Hungry Caterpillar

Innovation and Invention stages

Diary writing My Perfect half term !

Fractions = Making Halves

Making Quarters

Sharing and Grouping.

To identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants.

Week 3

Little Red Riding Hood – A warning story Imitation stage

What are the elements of this story ?

Role playing characters

Describe characters

Numbers to 100

Counting to 100

Finding Tens and Ones.

Comparing Numbers to 100.

Making Number patterns.

To group a variety of common flowering plants including trees.

Week 4

Little Red Riding Hood – A warning story Innovation stage

Identify the beginning ,warning , middle and end of this story .

Describe a forest setting .

Describe a new character and warning for the story

Learn to plan this story

Time

Telling the time to the Hour.

Telling the time ti the Half hour.

Using Next, Before and After.

To identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants and look closely at roots

Week 5

Little Red Riding Hood – A warning story Invention stage

Writing my own story based on Little Red Riding Hood and publishing it .

Estimating Duration of Time.

Comparing Time.

Using a Calendar.

Butterfly life cycle

Week 6

Poetry

Money

Recognising Coins.

Recognising Notes.

White Rose Assessments

Butterfly Lifecycle

Spring Term 1

Here is a taster of our plans for this half term. Our topic is called It’s a Child’s Life and here is an overview of what we will be getting up to! Please support your child with their learning, just ask if you would like further ideas. We aim to continue to send out a short piece of homework alternating between English and Maths each week ( as well as weekly spellings and reading) on Friday to be returned by the next Friday or sooner if possible.

Week	English	Maths	Science	Topic ( weekly sessions )
Week 1	Stories about Toys./ Christmas News	Subtraction From ones and then tens Addition and subtraction familiies	Everyday Materials; Identifying and Naming and Describing and Comparing.	ICT How to plan and give instructions – turtle /programmable toys. History -How does the class think the lives of children have changed over time? PHSE Know the school and classroom rules and how they help them. DT: Moving Pictures; Pop up books and make a pop up card Link to stories about toys. Sliders and levers/ scissor skills/wheels and axels/properties of materials . Music Charanga Music Scheme P.E : Principle Skill – travel ‘towards’ and ‘away from’ apparatus. Travelling, high, low and narrow.
Week 2	Poetry Imitation Stage Bedtime March Past Start with cold task.	NUMBERS TO 40 1.Counting to 40 2.Writing numbers to 40. 3.Counting in tens and ones. 4.Comparing numbers.	LI: To identify and name a variety of everyday materials.
Week 3	Innovation Stage Bedtime March Past To spell words containing each of the 40 + phonemes already taught.	. 1.Finding how much more. 2.Making Number Patterns. ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION WORD PROBLEMS 3.Solving Word Problems. 4. Solving Word Problems.	LI: To describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials.
Week 4	Invention Stage Bedtime March Past To develop their understanding of Punctuation Re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense	ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION WORD PROBLEMS 1.Solving Word Problems.	LI: To compare and group together a variety of everyday materials depending on their properties.
Week 5	Imitation Narrative Story Who are you Stripy Horse? To read aloud their writing clearly enough to be heard by their peers and the teacher. To write sentences to form short narratives. Re-read what they have written to check it makes sense. Develop pleasure in reading by becoming very familiar with key stories.	MULTIPLICATION 1.Making equal groups. 2.Adding equal groups. 3.Making equal rows. 4.Making doubles.	LI: To compare and group together a variety of everyday materials depending on their properties.
Week 6	Innovation Narrative Story Who are you Stripy Horse? To read aloud their writing clearly enough to be heard by their peers and the teacher. To write sentences to form short narratives. Re-read what they have written to check it makes sense. Develop pleasure in reading by becoming very familiar with key stories.	1.Solving word problems. DIVISION 1.Grouping equally. 2.Sharing equally.. FRACTIONS 3.Making Halves. 4.Making Quarters.	LI: To compare and group together a variety of everyday materials depending on their properties
Week 7	Invent To add prefixes and suffixes using ‘ing’, ‘ed’, ‘er’ and ‘est’ where no change is needed in the spelling of root words. English Skills Assess and review	Maths Assess and review	Seasonal changes -ongoing unit

Autumn 2 2016

Here is a taster of our plans for this half term . Our topic is called Handa’s Surprise and here is an overview of what we will be getting up to ! Please support your child with their learning , just ask if you would like further ideas. We aim to continue to send out a short piece of homework alternating between English and Maths each week ( as well as weekly spellings and reading) each Friday to be returned by the next Friday or sooner if possible.

Week	English	Maths	Science	Topic
Week 1	Handa’s Surprise (A journey story) Imitation stage learning the story -Talk for writing	Number and place value Counting on 0-20 (at least !)	To observe changes across the four seasons : Autumn	Locating UK and Kenya on a world map/globe NEW Charanga Music Scheme P.E Gymnastics Art Remembrance /Poppies Computing: Bonfire night pictures (Painting program)Logging on/ logging off
Week 2	Handa’s Surprise Innovation stage Can we change the story or parts of it ?	Number and place value	To observe changes across the four seasons : Autumn	Researching key facts :Kenya starting to use simple maps NEW Charanga Music Scheme P.E Gymnastics Art African animal masks Computing: (Painting program)Logging on/ logging off Talking about friendship Would you like a friend like Handa ?
Week 3	Handa’s Surprise Inventionstage Can we make up our own journey stories ?	Addition and subtraction	To observe changes across the four seasons : Autumn	Researching key facts :England starting to use simple maps ( Internet skills ) NEW Charanga Music Scheme P.E Gymnastics Art African sunsets collage Computing: (Painting program)Logging on/ logging off
Week 4	Compare Handa’s Surprise / Handa’s Hen – similarities and differences	Addition and subtraction	To observe and describe weather associated with the seasons : Autumn/ Winter	Compare a Kenyan village with Stratford-upon -Avon NEW Charanga Music Scheme (African Drumming ?) P.E Gymnastics Art African sunsets collage/ Masai shields Computing: (Painting program)Logging on/ logging off
Week 5	Stick man	Addition and subtraction	To observe and describe weather associated with the seasons :	Nativity preparations NEW Charanga Music Scheme P.E Gymnastics Computing: (Painting program)Logging on/ logging off Talking about Christmas-How do you celebrate ?
Week 6	Stick man	Measurement	To observe and describe how day length changes across the seasons : Autumn / Winter	Nativity play productions ( More information coming soon ! ) Find some of the places in the Christmas story and find them on a world map /globe NEW Charanga Music Scheme P.E Gymnastics Computing: (Painting program)Logging on/ logging off Talking about Christmas- Do all children celebrate ?
Week 7	Stick man Theatre trip Warwick Arts Centre (FS and KS1) Christmas activities	Stick man /Christmas activities	To observe and describe how day length changes across the seasons : Autumn / Winter	Christmas activities

Check out these weblinks to support your learning this half term...

Autumn Term 1

Our topic is called Amazing Me! and this is an overview of what we will be getting up to!

Week	English	Maths	Science	Topic
Week 1	The Magic Finger Roald Dahl 100^th birthday celebration	Days of the week / Months of the year	My face	Self portraits Establishing classroom rules together Charanga Music - Using our senses Role play The Doctor’s surgery
Week 2	Writing about how we have changed since being a baby Introducing the new cursive handwriting scheme Using labels and captions	Place value and numbers to 20	Labelling parts of the body	Creating a body collage Games / PE striking & fielding skills unit Sorting baby clothes and children’s clothes / The passing of time
Week 3	Once There Were Giants Talk for writing	Place value and numbers to 20/ ordering numbers	Life sequence baby to adult	Learning to switch on / shutdown a computer and basic mouse skills Washing our hands why it is important and making a poster Self portraits Famous artists Picasso
Week 4	Once There Were Giants Writing about themselves in more detail using homework task	Place value and numbers to 20/Addition and subtraction	Senses	My address Who looks after me at school ? Self portraits Famous artists Picasso
Week 5	Our special talents	Place value and numbers to 20/Addition and subtraction	Senses	What makes me special?
Week 6	What is special to me? Where’s My Teddy? ( lost teddy story )	Place value and numbers to 20/Addition and subtraction	Senses	Harvest Who makes me feel safe?
Week 7	Books about healthy eating including Eat your peas !	Shape	Being healthy/ medicine	Harvest festival Making a rainbow of fruit and vegetables

Try out some of these weblinks to support out topic (just click on the images)...

Labelling the body parts game.

Create a healthy lunchbox activity - what will you choose?

The handwash challenge - when should you wash your hands?

Fire-fighter Visit

The Year 1 Children thoroughly enjoyed their visit from Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service, not least when the teachers dressed up in all the fire-fighting equipment! The children also learned lots of serious messages, such as not to play with matches and also how best to escape a room filled with smoke. A special thank you to the fire-fighters who gave their time to help us.

Did you guess the teacher in the photo in the newsletter?