Learning

Year 1

Curriculum area YEAR 1	Autumn term	Spring term	Summer term
Geography	Where in the world is Barney Bear	Around our school	How can we make our local area safe
History	How our toys are different to those from the past	What were homes like a long time age
RE	Belonging to a faith Celebrations	New Life	Visiting a place of worship
Art	Self Portrait	Investigating Materials	What is Sculpture
Music	Simple songs	Exploring sounds	Long and short sounds
PE Games	Dance activity	Gymnastics activity	Games activity Athletics activity
DT	Moving mechanisms Mechanisms	Playgrounds or homes Structures	Eat more vegetables, fruit Food
Science	Ourselves Light and Dark	Growing Plants Sorting and Using materials	Pushes and Pulls Sound and Hearing
Mathematics	Daily Mathematics Lesson	Daily Mathematics Lesson	Daily Mathematics Lesson
English	National Literacy Hour	National Literacy Hour	National Literacy Hour
ICT	Expresso Education City	Information around us..	Using a word bank Labelling and Classifying

Book-bags in school everyday please and do write in the PACT books daily.
Drama is on Monday, Dance Tuesday, Tennis for the first half term is on Tuesdays. Children may wear trainers for the day for tennis. Kit is not needed for dance or tennis. PE is on Friday for Ms Astbury and Thursday for Ms Barran. So please wear PE kit to school and bring uniform in a PE bag.
Show and tell is on Wednesday’s, items of interest but please no toys. Homework comes home Friday and is returned for the following Wednesday.

Year One have been working on the following areas and in the gallery are photos of the children at work. We had lots of fun learning about sources of light and object that reflect light. We used torches and pin hole shoe boxes to experiment in Science.

We enjoyed talking about volcanoes so much that Miss. Astbury made a gooey, messy volcano out of corn-flour for us to play in. It was very messy but we loved it!

As part of our DT and History topic, we enjoyed walking around the local area learning more about the houses. Year 1A have been practising their measuring skills using non standard units to measure various objects around the classroom.

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As part of the Art curriculum, Year 1 found out all about weaving and then used different materials to weave. They made beautiful Christmas presents which we hope you enjoyed. Mrs. Lee’s husband made a wonderful new loom for us to practise on and we even tried out our new skills on the fence in the playground.