Learning in Year 1

Welcome back! It is so lovely to have so many smiley faces in Year 1. Everyone is so eager to learn that we are sure this will be a fantastic year! Let’s get started!  

English (reading and writing)

 Year 1 will be learning to:

• Apply phonic knowledge for reading and writing
• Write simple sentences
• Read with understanding
• Read aloud a variety of poems to partners and groups
• Retell familiar stories
• Read a variety of fiction texts
• Describe a character and setting

Maths

Year 1 will be learning to:

• Form numbers correctly
• Solve problems and practical problems involving number and place value.
• Solve one-step problems involving adding and subtracting
• Counting in 1, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
• Finding out 1 more and 1 less than a number
• Recognise and create repeating patterns with numbers, objects and shapes.

Further curriculum subjects & Topic

Science- Year 1 will be learning to:

• Identify and name human body parts
• How to stay healthy
• Name and investigate our 5 senses

History- Year 1 will be learning to:

• Recognise the difference between the past and present in their own and other people’s lives.
• Place events in order showing the passing of time.
• Ask and answer questions about the past through observing and handling a range of sources
• Identifying some similarities and differences between their own present and aspects of the past.

ICT- Year 1 will be learning to:

• Use a keyboard correctly
• Add images to text
• Save and retrieve work.