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.

Learning in Year One

Literacy (reading and writing)

 Year One will be learning to:

• Continue to develop phonetic knowledge.
• Apply phonic knowledge for reading
• Read a variety of texts with understanding
• Identify and discuss characters and settings of a variety of texts.
• Write speech for characters
• Talk about characters thoughts and feelings
• Adapt parts of stories to write our own.

Maths

Year One will be learning to:

• Recognise and create repeating patterns with objects, shapes and numbers
• Identify, name and describe common 2D and 3D shapes.
• Measure capacity in non-standard units
• Find a half and a quarter of shapes and objects
• Represent an amount using coins.
• Tell the time to the hour and half past the hour.  

Science Animals- Year One will be learning to:

• Identify and name a variety of common animals
• Describe and compare the structure of animals
• Grouping and sorting animals
• Recognising that animals need to be treated with care and sensitivity.

Geography Our School - Year One will be learning to:

• Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds
• Identify the key human and physical features of its surrounding environment.
• Use a range of maps and globes (including picture maps) at different scales.
• Recognise simple features on maps e.g. buildings, roads and fields.
• Recognise landmarks and basic human features on aerial photos.

• Use maps and other images to talk about everyday life e.g. where we live, journey to school etc.

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 on Monday and Friday- children must come to school wearing their PE kits.
• Homework is given out on Fridays. Children must complete their homework and return it by Thursday the following week.

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