Welcome to the Class 1 page!

 Class 1 Spring Term

We hope you all had a peaceful Christmas holiday. We are very excited to welcome the children back to a very exciting term!

Mrs O'Toole will be supporting in Class One in the mornings and on a Monday and Thursday afternoon. 

Important dates:

23rd January: Class trip to Hollytrees Toy Museum

In Spring 1, our English book focus is 'The Lion Inside' by Rachel Bright and in Spring 2, it shall be 'The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth' by Ellie Hattie. We are going to be consolidating knowledge on using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops and writing simple sentences. Children will begin to write their own sentences using their phonetical knowledge.

In Maths, we will be focusing on place value up to and including 50. Children are going to learn to recognise different arrays of numbers, to write as words numbers up to fifty. We will explore length and height as well as mass and capacity. Children will consolidate their knowledge of 2d and 3d shape properties.

In Religion in Spring 1, we will be focusing on the ministry of Jesus' and his spreading of the Good News throughout his early adult life. In Spring 2, we will focus on the Easter Story and the 12 Stations of the Cross.

In Computing, we are going to focus on the use of beebots and programming them using maps.

In History, the class will explore their own history and the important events in their life. We will compare contemporary childhood to Victorian childhood. In Geography, we will be exploring the weather in the UK and how this changes according to the different seasons of the year.

 In Art, we will be creating a 2d model of a bird and exploring how to join different materials. In DT, we will be creating sliding cards using cuts and split pins.

Reading

Reading books are changed on a Thursday.

The book your child brings home has been read three times at school with an adult. The first time is for fluency, the second for prosody and the third for comprehension.

Children will also bring home a reading for pleasure book (a fun book). Children can read non-school books at home in addition.

Useful resources

Educational online games

ICT Games

Maths Frame

Phonics Play

Top Marks

BBC Bitesize

CBeebies