Year 1 have had a very packed week. In Geography we have revisited our previous…
Click here to read about what we are doing in Year 1 this half term and for links to useful websites to support your child’s learning.
School Values
Summer 1: Creativity
During their time at Tiverton Academy, children experience a huge range of high quality, inspirational opportunities which introduces them to a world of creative possibilities. Through our rich and ambitious curriculum, we seek and nurture talents in every child and build their confidence to explore, investigate and express their individuality in creative ways. Carefully planned schemes of work aim to equip children with a toolbox of skills, knowledge and techniques in order to do this.
Summer 2: Challenge
During their time at Tiverton Academy, children experience a huge range of high quality, inspirational opportunities which introduces them to a world of creative possibilities. Through our rich and ambitious curriculum, we seek and nurture talents in every child and build their confidence to explore, investigate and express their individuality in creative ways. Carefully planned schemes of work aim to equip children with a toolbox of skills, knowledge and techniques in order to do this.
Literacy
We will be reading:
- Rapunzel by Bethan Woollvin
- Clean Up! By Nathan Byron and Dapo Adeola
- Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers
- Poetry on a theme: Bedtime poems
We will use these rich and diverse texts as starting points to write sentences to describe, sentences to give information and sentences in role as a character from the story. The emphasis in Year 1 is to master the writing of sentences, and sequences of sentences. Check out this useful BBC page about sentence writing.
Spellings
Please see the homework sheets that we send home each week for the sounds that we are learning in Little Wandle. Our spellings are words that use the sounds that we have been taught so far. In class we do spellings every day, we do two words and a tricky word. This section of the Little Wandle website has useful information for parents and carers.
Year One read their phonics books 3 times a week. Reading books are shared with you weekly. Please read your Phonics books at home let’s show off our wonderful reading skills! You can log in through Collins Hub.
Maths
- Multiplication and division
- Fractions
- Position and direction
- Place value
- Money
- Time
BBC Bitesize is an amazing resource and everything that you need to support your child in their learning can be found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwv39j6
Songs and dances are also a great way to help children to understand and remember their maths. Please find a selection below.
Fact Family Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaI175kp-zQ
Fact Family Triangles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IhZDEffyTk
Addition & Subtraction Fact Families https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK3FKEZJKec
Hit The Button – Number Bonds to 20 Game https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Science
In Summer 1 we will be learning all about plants. Learn more here.
During Summer 2 we be learning to make connections bewtween everything we have studied in science this year! This page shows all the topics for Y1.
Computing
Technology Around Us
During Summer 1, we will use chromebooks to create text.
During Summer 2, we will begin learning about animation.
For those interested in more computing activities to do at home, Barefoot Comupting has lots of suggestions.
Art and Design: Woven Wonders
This unit focuses on developing pupils’ ability to express opinions about art, use creative techniques like wool wrapping and weaving, and understand the work of artists like Cecilia Vicuña. It emphasises skills such as measuring, choosing materials, and resilience in artistic creation, catering to children’s creative and cognitive development.
Design and Technology: Cooking and nutrition (smoothies)
We will be preparing foods by cutting and juicing and selecting fruits and vegetables to create a smoothie to meet a design brief. Feeling inspired? Make your own at home by following this video!
History: The Great Fire of London
We will be finding out the answers to these questions in our history lessons:
When and where did the fire start?
Why did the fire spread so quickly?
How did people try to put the fire out?
How and when was the fire put out?
What happened after the fire was put out?
Have a look here to get a head start with your research.
Geography: What is it like to live in Shanghai?
Through studying Shanghai, we will be able to give examples of human and physical features and explain the location of these features using some
directional language.
We will be looking at an aerial photograph to locate physical and
human features. We will draw simple pictures or symbols on a sketch map, and draw on the compass points.
We will be able to use an atlas to locate the UK and China, Europe and Asia on a world map.
More information about this topic is available here.
Music
We love our lessons with Mrs Vaughan. This half term we are learning songs for the Summer Concert and continuing to develop our musicianhip skills.
PE
The children will learn to play invasion games with a ball, and also practise events for sports day. We will also experience orienteering.
RSHE
Year 1 will be looking at safety and the changing body (trusted adults, making an emergency phonecall, appropriate contact with others, what is and is not safe to eat and drink.)
We will also learn about economic wellbeing: the concept of money and the difference between spending and saving.
RE
In the first half term we are focussing again on Remembering Roots and Being Hopeful and Visionary.
After half term, we will look at Being curious and valuing knowledge, and Being open, honest and truthful.