Welcome back after the Easter break. We are ready to begin our new term of exciting work.  Let’s get started!   

Literacy (reading and writing)

 Year One will be learning to:

• Apply phonic knowledge for reading
• Read with understanding
• Read aloud a variety of non-fiction texts
• Write lists
• Write a set of instructions
• Write an information text.

Maths

Year One will be learning to:

• Counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
• Continue adding and subtracting numbers.
• Solve problems involving multiplication and division.
• Begin to read an analogue clock to the hour and half past the hour.
• To measure capacity using non-standardise and standardise units.
• To recognise different denominations of coins and notes.
• Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction.

Further curriculum subjects & Topic

Science- Year One will be learning to:

Pupils should be taught to:

• Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.
• Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.

Topic The UK- Year One will be learning to:

• Use maps to identify different locations

• Name and locate the countries in the UK.
• Use a range of maps and globes (including picture maps) at different scales.
• Identify capital cities within the UK.
• Recognise key features of the countries in the UK

ICT- Year One will be learning to:

• Use simple code

Class reminders

• We change reading books daily- if you read with your child, please remember to sign their reading diary. Books will not be changed if diaries aren’t signed.  
• P.E. is Monday’s and Thursdays- children need to wear P.E. kits on these days.
• Spelling test every Monday morning.

PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOUR CHILD'S NAME HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN EACH ITEM OF THEIR SCHOOL UNIFORM AND PE KIT.