Year 1
Welcome Event Year 1 - Monday 16th Sep 2024
Year 1 Team
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Geography - In Geography we will be learning about our local area, Bournemouth. We will be learning what human and physical features are and identifying these in our locality. Alongside this, we will learn to draw a simple map and be using maps to explore the world around us.
D&T - In DT we will be using the book 'Not a Box' by Antoinette Portis as a stimulus for our learning. We will be exploring using different materials to junk model and make a box into something entirely new! The children will be using their creativity skills to plan their ideas and then use their plans to make and create. Once they have finished they will be evaluating what they have made against their original plan and considering what went well and what could be improved.
Music - This half term in Music we will be experimenting with our own voices by changing the pitch and volume. We will be listen to music carefully and move our bodies to make shapes that we think depict the music that we listen to. Additionally, we will be using tunes and untuned instruments to find the pulse in different types of music.
Computing - This half term we will be learning all about creating media by focussing on using paint to create a desired effect. We will explore digital painting and use a range of different tools to create our own pictures using computers and ipads.
RE- In RE we will be learning about Judaism. We will investigate how a Jewish persons beliefs, teachings and stories impact their daily lives. We will learn how Jewish people worship and learn all about the torah and what this means for people of the Jewish faith. We will explore different Jewish celebrations and consider why these are important to Jewish people.
Science - In Science we will be learning about the weather and climate. We will learn about the four seasons that make up the year and investigate what typical weather patterns occur at different times of the year.
PE - This half term we will be working on ball skills linking to throwing and catching, throwing for power and throwing for accuracy. We will be applying our newly learnt skills to Netball/Basketball and Dodgeball and focus on working as part of a team. Additionally, we will be continuing our dance theme and linking it to the four E's of dance - Energy, Expression, Extension, Eye-Contact.
Jigsaw - In Jigsaw this half term we will be working on the unit 'Being Me in My World'. We will be focusing on the skills to make and maintain friendships as well as developing an awareness of bullying and we will learn who can help us if we see a friend feeling unhappy. We will learn that we all have individual differences and these can be celebrated.
English
English - This half term we will be focussing on the key skill of adding the conjunction 'and' to our sentences to provide the reader with more detail. We will be using the book The Runaway Pea to support our learning and will be writing our own stories about a runaway vegetable. Additionally, we will be learning what a suffix is and will be adding the suffix 'ing' to words to change their meaning.
Reading- We will be reading the book The Runaway Pea during our reading sessions and will be working on sequencing events from the story and answering simple questions about the book.
Handwriting - We will be continuing to perfect our formation of initial sounds and will be working hard to ensure that our writing is sitting neatly on a line.
Phonics - This half term we will be continuing to learn the new Phase 5 graphemes and reviewing the graphemes we have already taught this year. The new content that we will be learning this half term is:
Maths
Maths - This half term we will be continuing to practise our addition and subtraction within 10. We will use resources to subtract numbers within ten and will be continuing to use the part whole model as a method for this.
Additionally we will be looking at the number line and investigating how this can also support our subtraction learning. We will use the number line to find one and two less than a number and subtract numbers within 10.