Welcome to our Year One page! Here you will find information about the exciting things we will be learning in class this year. We have two Year One classes, and our Year One team consists of Mrs Harris, Miss O’Rourke, Mrs Breakwell, Mrs Greaves, Mrs Kane and Miss Jewels.

We love learning in Year One! Our classrooms are set up to support learning through focus groups, continuous provision and outdoor learning. These opportunities help us to become confident, independent learners and effective problem-solvers in all areas of learning.

Autumn

Writing

Our main focus texts this term are ‘Our Class is a Family’ by Shannon Olsen and ‘The High Street’ by Alice Melvin. We will enjoy listening to, retelling and performing a range of stories. Through our writing lessons, we will explore new vocabulary, take part in class discussions, identify rhyming words and develop our speaking, listening and writing skills.

Maths

This term, we will be developing our understanding of place value through a range of practical and engaging activities. The children will practise counting forwards and backwards to 100, matching quantities to numerals, using number lines, and comparing and ordering numbers. They will also explore different ways to represent numbers and build confidence in recognising greater than, less than, and equal amounts. Through these activities, children will develop strong number sense and a secure foundation for future maths learning.

Topic

This term, Year 1 will be exploring lots of exciting learning across the curriculum! In Art, the children will create self-portraits using fruit, while in Design and Technology they will make an autumn smoothie and learn about the vitamins and minerals that help keep our bodies healthy. In Science, we will learn to identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and discover which body parts are linked to each of our senses. In Religious Education (RE), we will investigate our key question: ‘Who do Christians say made the world?’ In Music, the children will develop their ability to keep a steady pulse, and in PSHE, we will explore ways to look after ourselves and stay healthy and safe.