Welcome to Year 1's information page!

Your Year 1 team are - Miss Simpson,  Miss Carlin, Miss Ball, Miss Nicula & Miss Qadoos. 

Spring 1’s half-term is just as busy with lots of exciting first-hand experiences throughout the curriculum. We will be visiting Darnall library again to promote a real love for reading. This half term sees us immerse in all things toys as we focus on this throughout English and History.

Global theme: Human Rights.

How can people change the world?    

Our focus in Geography will be all about significant people who have changed the lives for others. We will focus on Ernest Shackleton and how he changed how we conduct expeditions and science in Antarctica. In Geography, we will continue to revise the countries and capital cities of the UK and learn about the North and South Pole and its environment, eventually creating a map of Antarctica. In history, we will look at the history of toys, creating timelines and observing old toys up close!

English

In English we will be reading Lost in the Toy Museum by David Lucas and using this as our stimulus to write our own narrative. This book follows an exciting story of a group of toys that come to life, when the museum shuts its doors for the night. These toys get up to mischief playing a game of hid and seek!

We will continue to use transcription and ensure sentence basics are used more accurately and consistently – full stops, capital letters and finger spaces. Handwriting and letter formation remains a big focus.  Book Study lessons will see us read and explore The Journey, The Colour of Home, My Little Book of Big Freedoms.

Maths

In maths, we will revisit basic addition and subtraction within 20 and focus on place value within 50. Children will learn the value of ‘tens’ and ‘ones’ in a 2-digit number (eg. 15 = one ten and 5 ones). They will use this to help them to add and subtract 2 digit numbers. Problem solving and reasoning are key skills to help Year 1 children evolve and deepen their maths skills.  We will learn continue to practice number bonds to ten and will use these skills to answer word problems.

Science

In science we will learn about the seasons and extend our skills to understand why the weather varies across the seasons and understand that the length of light hour varies too. We will be able to describe the basic movements of the Earth in space and know that the Earth travels around the sun in one year. 

Visits

We will continue to visit Darnall library to ignite children’s love for reading.

Home Learning

Reading is the most important thing you can do to help your child learn. Every Friday we will change the children’s reading books.

For your information

Please ensure your child has their book bag and water bottle in school every day.

PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday. Please make sure that all children are in the correct P.E uniform, hair is tied up and they are not wearing jewellery. The children should come to school wearing their PE uniform on PE days.

As part of Readmore@Phillimore on Wednesdays  we will be holding a library day. Children who have their book bag will be able to borrow a book.

Date for your diary:

• 19.1.26 – Class 4 Darnall Library
• 26.1.26– Class 3 Darnall Library